How to upgrade to Ubuntu Server 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

The new release of Ubuntu is out! Anyway, if you’re running Ubuntu Server on a production system, I would recommend you to stick with the LTS version (10.04 Lucid Lynx).

Here’s how to perform the upgrade in 3 simple steps:

First, make sure you have the update-manager-core package installed:

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

Now we use nano to edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal

nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Last step, launch the upgrade tool and follow the instructions:

sudo do-release-upgrade -d