Upgrade Trisquel

This documentation describes the steps to:

• Automatically check for upgrades using a GUI
• Manually upgrade using the command-line

Automatically check for upgrades using a GUI

To prevent unwanted connections to the Internet Trisquel will not automatically check for updates unless you say so in the Settings panel.

If you wish Trisquel to automatically check for upgrades follow these instructions:

• In the Main Menu go to System→Administration→Software Updater

• Select Settings...

This will open the Settings panel for the updates

• Here you may modify whether you would like to be notified when there is a new version of Trisquel and the kinds of updates of which you would like to be notified and how often you would like Trisquel to check for available updates.

• Select your preferred option for Automatically check for updates, for example:
  • Daily
  • Every two days
  • Weekly
  • Every two weeks
  • Never

• Select your preferred option for Notify me of a new Trisquel version, for example:
  • For any version
  • For long-term support versions
  • Never

• Select Close when you have done your preferences.

• Follow the instructions on your screen, if an upgrade is available!

Manually upgrade using the command-line

To upgrade Trisquel to the newest release available, the command in the terminal is:

$ sudo do-release-upgrade

If it doesn't work, first install Trisquel's upgrader with:

$ sudo apt install trisquel-release-upgrader-core