22.04 LTS not offered when I do ‘sudo do-release-upgrade’ (upgrading from 20.04.4 LTS on a Dell Inspiron 6400)

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The announcements for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mentioned this I thought rather clearly

eg.

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/04/21/ubuntu-22-04-lts-jammy-jellyfish-released/

Users of Ubuntu 21.10 will soon be offered an automatic upgrade to 22.04. Users of 20.04 LTS will be offered the automatic upgrade when 22.04.1 LTS is released, which is scheduled for the 4th of August. For further information about upgrading, see:

The Ubuntu Release team control what is seen for main Ubuntu and all flavors, if you’re interested in the mechanics you can read an answer I wrote here which was written shortly after 22.04’s release, before the meta files were modified to allow 21.10’s upgrades.

I’ll also note the 4th August is a guide only, as that is a Thursday and all ISO releases are scheduled for a Thursday, but the ‘taps’ that enable the upgrades from prior releases are not usually enabled until early the next week, so if I’d have written the announcement I’d have included the word after, ie. after 4th of August 2022.

This is called “Install using existing partition” in our Testing Checklist - understanding the testcases. That link is intended to help QA-testers understand it, not end-users, thus the examples provided of data files (music) & non-standard music player (clementine) which are mentioned to represent the manually installed apps of end-users such as yourself. It may still be helpful to letting you understand how it works.

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