Upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. and Privacyidea 2.221 to 3.1

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I’m hoping to attempt an upgrade from 16.04-18.04 soon. I will also be upgrading privacyidea from 2.22.1 to the current version (3.1). Is there anything I should be aware of or concerned about? Any gotchas or any prereqs?
Thanks

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  1. You would first upgrade on your 16.04 to 2.23.5

  2. I probably would now run the do-release-upgrade after having made a backup of the /etc7privacyidea directory and the database.

  3. run do-release-upgrade. The repository will probably be deactivated. Remove it after the relese-upgrade.

  4. Add the new repository for xenial as descripbed here:
    https://privacyidea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/ubuntu.html#add-repository

  5. Check if the package was removed, either install it or run an apt update && apt dist-upgrade.

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Ah, short answer: No gotchas. Simply run a backup.

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thanks for the info. upgrade went very smooth. only issue I had was with my pi.cfg (I had to re-add my admin realm). thanks again for the help!

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looks like the clients.conf for freeradius didn’t migrate, nor did freeradius start up automaticly after installing and rebooting. Both pretty easy to address once I figured out what was gonig on.

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This is no migration. The FreeRADIUS is an update.
I think in 18.04 it is FR3 and not FR2 anymore, which has its config files at other locations.