Hard times upgrading ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
Recently, I decided to do a reinstall of Ubuntu 20.04 on my home computer. This is what it came shipped with. The overall process was a breeze, as Dell has made factory re installs a snap (no pun intended). However, I ran into issues when attempting to upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. I kept getting the following error whenever I attempted to run scott@scott-Precision-3650-Tower : ~ $ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Failed to connect to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release. Check your Internet connection or proxy settings No new release found. I then checked into the firewall on my system, and made sure 1022/TCP was open, per many posts on the web. Still no go. Luckily, I found a post from Reddit user PhoenixOneThree who mentioned that adding the following lines to your /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py file would allow the upgrade to run. import ssl ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified