How to upgrade from an eol release (Kinetic as of Mid-July)

So, if you find that your kinetic install is end of life, follow these steps to upgrade to 23.04.

  1. Open a terminal and type in sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and change all ‘archive.ubuntu.com’ (Or a mirror that you’re using) entries to old-releases.ubuntu.com
    Press CTRL+X to save your changes and confirm by pressing yes.
    Press enter to exit and type in: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade then reboot.
    After rebooting, open a terminal and type in sudo do-release-upgrade. Follow the prompts and reboot.
    And, congratulations! You have sucessfully upgraded to ubuntu budgie 23.04!
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