Upgrading Ubuntu 16 to 18

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt dist-upgrade

Make sure that’s nothing pending and everything up to date

sudo apt install update-manager-core

sudo do-release-upgrade

Throughout the installation there will be prompts to ask to overwrite or use the existing.

the first one will be PAM configuration override local changes to /etc/pam.d/common-*/ select “override

The rest can be default.

After a few hours the installation will be done.

After restart there’s a chance that a ubuntu is unable to access network.

Go to /etc/resolv.conf change the existing nameserver from 127.0.0.53 to something either your own DNS IP.