Fixed – Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading

Through this tutorial, we will see the solution of please install all available updates for your release before upgrading while upgrading the ubuntu system.

Fixed – Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading

Error while trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10, 20.04 and 22.04: “Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.” So, There is a two simple solutions for please install all available updates for your release before upgrading ubuntu system: is as follows:

  • Solution 1 – Disable all third-party repositories
  • Solution 2 – Clean all the Ubuntu upgrade

Solution 1 – Disable all third-party repositories

First of all, open terminal or command line and execute the following command to disable all third-party repositories in linux ubuntu system:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
for i in *.list; do mv ${i} ${i}.disabled; done 

Once the above command has been executed; then execute the following command on command line to clean the Apt update state cache data:

apt clean
apt autoclean 

Now, again start the Ubuntu upgrade process:

sudo do-release-upgrade 

Solution 2 – Clean all the Ubuntu upgrade

In this solution, execute the following command on command line to clean all the Ubuntu upgrade state cache:

apt clean
apt autoclean 

Then, execute the following commands on command line one by one.

sudo apt update 
sudo apt upgrade -y 
sudo apt dist-upgrade 

Finally, run the Ubuntu upgrade process again. Hopefully, this will resolve the issue:

sudo do-release-upgrade 

Conclusion

Through this tutorial, we have shown the solution of please install all available updates for your release before upgrading while upgrading the ubuntu system.

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