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Re: [EP-tech] Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS to 24.04 LTS upgrade

Hi all,

Although this is not what is specifically being discussed and it may have previous be mentioned - EPrints is not yet supported on Ubuntu 26.04.  So just upgrade to 24.04 and no further for now.  

We are looking into whether the underlying XML library that prevents the upgrade will be fixed of whether changes need to be made to EPrints to work with the recent changes to the XML library.  Unfortunately, we currently do not know how long before one or other of these will be in place and an upgrade (or install on) 26.04 will be possible.

Regards

David Newman

On 10/11/2026 15:42, Wimmer Christian wrote:
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We did an Inplace Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 on internal Test Repositories and a less important and smaller ePrints Repository. No issues as far as we can tell.

 

Downtime was less than 30 minutes.

 

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Christian Wimmer

 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

University Library

Department Digital Services

 

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, D-80539 München, GERMANY

Telefon: +49 89/2180-1307

Email: christian.wimmer@ub.uni-muenchen.de

 

 

 

Von: eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Im Auftrag von Tomasz Neugebauer
Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. November 2026 16:30
An: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Betreff: [EP-tech] Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS to 24.04 LTS upgrade

 

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Good morning,

 

We are still running EPrints (currently on 3.4.3) on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, and that is reaching end of standard support soon, so we will need to upgrade to 24.04 LTS (Noble), there is no "skip" to 26.Has anyone been through this OS upgrade on Ubuntu with EPrints?  The recommended upgrade path is to start with a fresh virtual machine, and transferring the archive and database onto it, right?  Anyone upgrade "in place" instead?  Any comments on this would be appreciated.  Thank you.

 

Tomasz

 

 

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Tomasz Neugebauer
Senior Librarian | Bibliothécaire titulaire
Digital Projects & Systems Development Librarian / Bibliothécaire des Projets Numériques & Développement de Systèmes
Concordia University / Université Concordia

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