Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon

If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users across different Ubuntu flavours. Some users were left with broken desktops (environments, that is – upgrading wasn’t melting PC towers); upgrading was removing third-party packages it shouldn’t have, while many Qt-flavour users couldn’t upgrade using the GUI tool due to missing dependencies. This is why Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades are not working at present (unless manually forced […] You're reading Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

May 13, 2025 - 02:12

If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users across different Ubuntu flavours. Some users were left with broken desktops (environments, that is – upgrading wasn’t melting PC towers); upgrading was removing third-party packages it shouldn’t have, while many Qt-flavour users couldn’t upgrade using the GUI tool due to missing dependencies. This is why Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades are not working at present (unless manually forced […]

You're reading Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.