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Sorry this is a really basic question. I've only been using Kubuntu for a week or two, and a lot of it is unfamiliar to me still. I did a search, and tried things like sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop, but nothing I've tried has worked.... and I suspect it shouldn't be that hard.

I'm used to using a system that automatically updates itself every day, so it is bizarre to me that I can't even update manually without putting some effort in to it. What's going on here?

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.10
Release:        20.10
Codename:       groovy

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This may have something to do with why you are not receiving the upgrade:

In case you missed it in the release notes[1] and hear people asking about it, I wanted to let you know that users of Ubuntu 20.10 are not being prompted to upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04. Subsequently, upgrading to Ubuntu 21.04 still requires running do-release-upgrade with the '-d' switch. This is due to a bug[2] with the current version of shim in Ubuntu 21.04 which can cause systems with an early version of EFI to fail to boot after the upgrade. Due to the severity of the issue we shouldn't be encouraging people to upgrade at this point in time.

After we have a new version of shim signed will make it available in Ubuntu 21.04 and then enable upgrades.

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