Canonical finally released the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa” with new features, performance, Dark mode, speed and more when compared with other versions
Ubuntu flavors Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Ubuntu Kylin also received 20.04 Update
This tutorial will be helpful for the beginners to Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using command line
Download and install Ubuntu 20.04
For fresh installation download the iso from here, Using RUFUS to convert the iso into a bootable USB drive
Follow the on-screen instructions and install it.
Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04
Step 1: Backup the VM or the contents if it is physical
Step 2: Upgrade existing packages
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Step 3: Reboot the system to reflect the kernel and libs to update
sudo reboot
Step 4: Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Follow the onscreen instructions, based on that it will start to download the packages and once the upgrade is complete it will ask us to reboot the system to finish the process.
