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

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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.