Inplace upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04, not 24.04?

[abpeub24]

I am running 20.04 Desktop.
Can I limit an in-place upgrade to 22.04, and not go to 24.04?

[ogra]

You do in fact have to go from 20.04 to 22.04 first if you wanted to go to 24.04, so yes, the default in-place update path from 20.04 goes only towards 22.04 anyway… Just use do-release-upgrade on the command line or the graphical upgrader and you should end up on 22.04… (moving to 24.04 would mean you need to run the upgrade again once you are on 22.04, if you do not do this you will stay on 22.04)

[abpeub24]

Thank you.
I have several systems that will need to be moved to 22.04 but not yet to 24.04.

[guiverc]

I’ll quickly provide JammyUpgrades - Community Help Wiki

If you contrast the upgrade instructions for 24.04 you’ll find no reference to 20.04; as the jump from 20.04 to 24.04 isn’t supported as already stated.

I’d also read the release notes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or the release you’re going to, any problems encountered during Quality Assurance testing tend to get mentioned there (with mitigation pointers) too. These can give a clue as to how smooth or what potential problems you could run into, if you consider your actual install(s). as you scan the document (upgrades work at package level)