DO-RELEASE-UPGRADE(8) - man page online | administration and privileged commands

DO-RELEASE-UPGRADE(8)                                                       DO-RELEASE-UPGRADE(8)

NAME
       do-release-upgrade - upgrade operating system to latest release

SYNOPSIS
       do-release-upgrade [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Upgrade the operating system to the latest release from the command-line.  This is the
       preferred command if the machine has no graphic environment or if the machine is to be
       upgraded over a remote connection.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              show help message and exit

       -d, --devel-release
              If using the latest supported release, upgrade to the development release

       -p, --proposed
              Try upgrading to the latest release using the upgrader from Ubuntu-proposed

       -m MODE, --mode=MODE
              Run in a special upgrade mode. Currently "desktop" for regular upgrades of a desk‐
              top system and "server" for server systems are supported.

       -f FRONTEND, --frontend=FRONTEND
              Run the specified frontend

       -s, --sandbox
              Test upgrade with a sandbox aufs overlay

SEE ALSO
       update-manager(8), apt-get(8)

                                           October 2009                     DO-RELEASE-UPGRADE(8)