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Upgrade Ubuntu Xenial (16) to Artful (17.10) under WSL
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Make sure Ubuntu can find the new version

$ sudo sed -i -e 's/^Prompt=.*$/Prompt=normal/' /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Check what can be installed

$ lsb_release -a

Don't upgrade everything just now

$ sudo -S apt-mark hold procps strace sudo bash

Run the upgrade

$ sudo -S env RELEASE_UPGRADER_NO_SCREEN=1 do-release-upgrade

You might need to restart WSL (from cmd.exe)

> sc stop LxssManager
> sc start LxssManager

Fix the broken locale

$ sudo gunzip --keep /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive locales
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