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I did this recently, but I did not upgrade via the Ubuntu upgrade, I copied my important data to another hard-drive and reformatted my disk with fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04. I think in your case it is better to completely remove all existing ros-kinetic packages , then upgrade to 18.04 and finally reinstall ros-melodic packages.

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