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quesera on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever...

> No, dist-upgrade would be 14.04 -> 16.04.

That is a reasonable assumption, but it is incorrect. Check the man page for apt-get.

On Ubuntu systems, the command to upgrade to a new release is "do-release-upgrade". Insanity, but there it is.

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