Last updated November 1, 2022 at 11:14 AM
During an update you will encounter this message in your terminal: Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
In our attempt to update our operating system ubuntu 16.04 LTS to upgrade 20.04 LTS (which didn't work by the way for deeper reasons) we found this error message which was displayed in the following terminal Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
In this troubleshooting we will show you how to solve this type of problem.
[bctt tweet=”Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading – Ubuntu – Troubleshooting “username=”tedidevblog”]
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading - Solution
Usually before upgrading your system, you will first be prompted to update and upgrade all packages that reside in your current installation. The entire script should look like this:
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y; sudo apt dist-upgrade
After running the script, start reading the results in your terminal. What we're looking for should look like the image below:

What interests us are the latest messages (selection white on dark purple) from Calculating upgrade… Done.
The package we were having trouble with right now was skypeforlinux. Yours could be another package. In our case, all we did to proceed was uninstall the package using the command:
sudo apt remove skypeforlinux
Read next | ERROR Android emulator gets killed
Now you can resume the upgrade procedure of your ubuntu to ubuntu 20.04 LTS with these commands:
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y; sudo apt dist-upgrade
And then
sudo do-release-upgrade
Lire aussi | [Troubleshooting] The Angular CLI requires a minimum Node.js version of either v10.13 or v12.0
Last updated November 1, 2022 at 11:14 AM
Conclusion
You may be interested in Troubleshooting: Linux Won't Launch After Installation et Google - All new applications should target android 11 as a minimum - What does this mean for us?