On Tue May 8 2018 15:34:20 dep wrote:
> if i were to try to go from ubuntu-14.04 to 16.04 and i were simply to
> change the repositories from trusty to xenial and the tde repository to the
> preliminary stable builds, did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, is
> it likely to break things? that's how i upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04, and
> it worked well, but i kind of don't want to screw it all up with surprises.
> seems the best way to get stuff i need to run working.

It might work.  It might not.  Ubuntu doesn't guarantee upgrades to the
same extent that Debian does and neither recommends skipping versions.

A much safer (but still not guaranteed approach) is to upgrade one version
at a time, and to read and follow all relevant release notes for each
upgrade.

--Mike