I upgraded Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04

I read an article on Hacker News about a guy who ran Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years and moved over to FreeBSD. Then I rememebered, I have an Ubuntu Server running. And it has been running for a while now. I have been keeping it up-to-date, but it was still Ubuntu 22.04, with the latest long-term support released from Ubuntu being 26.04. So I decided it was time to do the dreaded release-upgrade. Why do I say “dreaded”? Well, things have broken in the past, and I was sure something would break again. It almost always do. So, the first step was to take a full backup. I run it as a virtual machine on VMware ESXi, but since I have had some issues in the past with the snapshot feature, I have learned not to use it, but instead make a copy of the files manually. After making sure that every package was up-to-date, and the machine rebooted, I ran do-release-upgrade and let it do it’s thing. I was surprised that most things just worked after the upgrade. But some small things showed up: Python 2.7…