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    Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    Hi folks,

    does exists some way on how I can upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting my repos and software like:

    Mysql server
    PHP

    On example I have installed Mysql 5.7 and PHP 7.4

    If I run dist-upgrade my MySQL server stop working because upgraded to MySQL 8 and upgrade process upgrade PHP to 8.
    Of course I tried to change code name in my repository from bionic to focal but without success.

    I tried to find some solution but I didn't found.

    Thank you in advance.

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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    Focal has php7.4. If the version from the official repo doesn't work for you, see https://deb.sury.org

    As to MySQL 5.7, see How to install MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    This is what the manual page for apt-get says about dis-upgrade

    dist-upgrade
    dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some packages.
    The dis-upgrade command does not upgrade one version of Ubuntu to a newer version.

    This is the official method to upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-upgra...0-04-lts-today

    If this is a server install then you should read the section called: Upgrade to 20.04 LTS - on the command line. You should expect software to be upgraded to newer versions. The release notes list the changes.

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes

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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    You can tell apt not to upgrade a package with the command
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    sudo apt-mark hold packagename
    I don't know how this applies to upgrading to an entirely new release using dist-upgrade.

    See the man page for apt-mark: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...pt-mark.8.html
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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    Thank you to all on answer.

    I already check all that document, but unfortunatelly that don't solve my problem. I have about 40 server and I don't want to upgrade MySQL on each one.

    Thanks !

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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    You can continue using 18.04 for 2 more years, but you can't continue using old software forever.

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    Re: Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 without affecting installed software

    I suggest you install VirtualBox, then install a copy of 20.04 into a virtual machine. Migrate a copy of your database using mysqldump and copy over a website that uses PHP. Do they still work the same way? I'm going to guess the answer is yes.
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