{"id":2377,"date":"2014-11-06T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2017-04-16T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:59:08","slug":"ubuntu-servers-should-be-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2014\/ubuntu-servers-should-be-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu servers SHOULD be LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was young. Bleeding edge was what i wanted. Little i knew that non-LTS Ubuntu releases become obsolete after 9 months (ref<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After reading a lot about the shell-shock<\/a>, I tested whether my VPS was vulnerable to it. And it was! It was an Ubuntu Server 13.10.<\/p>\n

I thought a simple apt-get update && apt-get upgrade<\/code> would fix it. But no. The repositories were obsolete. I was getting errors like these:<\/p>\n


\nW: Failed to fetch http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/dists\/raring-security\/restricted\/binary-i386\/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.153 80]
\nW: Failed to fetch http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/dists\/raring-security\/universe\/binary-i386\/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.153 80]
\n...
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Following this guy’s advice<\/a> on Askubuntu.com was life saving.<\/p>\n


\n$ sudo sed -i -e 's\/archive.ubuntu.com\\|security.ubuntu.com\/old-releases.ubuntu.com\/g' \/etc\/apt\/sources.list
\n$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
\n$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
\n$ sudo do-release-upgrade
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

All seemed to go fine until i got an error saying:<\/p>\n

import apt ImportError: No module named apt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More googling led me to this post<\/a> on stackoverflow. I ran the following command:
\n
\n$ apt-get install python-apt
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

do-release-upgrade was able to continue then. After pressing yes to multiple questions, few reboots, my Ubuntu server was finally on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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