I have version 16.0 on my laptop and all of a sudden it keeps freezing and requires a hard boot. I would like to install version 18 and want to know if installation will just update what it needs to and will fix my problems (appears to be a dependency problem) or will it wipe out everything and install the new version?
Would like to just repair my current version if possible.
Thanks for any assistance.
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You should fix problems (in my opinion) before you jump to the next version, as they could impact the upgrade process, or remain anyway after upgrade. If it’s dependency problems, I doubt do-release-upgrade would even start, or if it did [start] that it would fail - but I can’t know as I don’t know your issue - and discussing it further belongs in a support forum, irc support chat room, launchpad questions etc