Questions tagged [partial-upgrade]
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dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting error after upgrading from 16.04 to 16.10
I got a strange error after upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10.
The Software Updater suggests a partial update:
Could not install 'systemd-shim'
The upgrade will continue but the 'systemd-shim' ...
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Install a single specific package from future distribution [duplicate]
I'm currently using precise. I need to upgrade a certain package (namely bind9 and it's dependencies) to a newer version, which is currently found in raring (alfa at the time of writing this). How to ...
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How do you recover from a failed upgrade ('apt-get -f install' and 'dpkg --configure -a' fail)?
During an upgrade from lucid (10.04) to precise (12.04), the X session froze, and I have been trying to recover the upgrade to get a stable system. I have performed the following steps:
Used ssh to ...
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How to only apt-get upgrade Certain Applications?
I only have a traffic-limited mobile broadband connection at my disposal. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade wants to get ~500MB of data which is not feasible for me right now.
Hence, is it possible to only ...
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Login loop on Ubuntu 19.10
While upgrading my system from 19.04 to 19.10, there was power failure. Due to partial upgrade,my system after login shows me black screen for a while and then shows white screen with text on it-
"Oh ...
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How do I upgrade python-scipy to something newer than 0.7.0?
How can I upgrade to a higher scipy (say 0.8.0) with a minimum amount of dependency hell?
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How to resume release upgrade? [duplicate]
I was upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 via ssh (didn't use screen). My ssh connection was interrupted when do-release-upgrade script was about to remove obsolete packages. Now when I reconnect and run it ...
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Kept back upgrade of fwupd
What's wrong now with fwupd? It was OK since May 1st, 2020 on newly installed Ubuntu 20.04
The following packages have been kept back:
fwupd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not ...
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How to resume the interrupted upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04?
Previous the upgrade, my bashrc file was modified in order to add some Path configuration.
While executing do-release-upgrade everything was fine until a message prompted about the status of the ...
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Why am I unable to install,remove or upgrade packages?
When I wanna do anything with Synaptic or apt-get or stop,start,restart postgresql I receive following error
Setting up postgresql-common (114) ...
* Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server ...
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Software Updater partial upgrade?
I just have a question about this pop up.
Should I select a partial upgrade?, will this take me out from 14.04 and upgrade me to another version of ubuntu? I mean, is this like a Distro Upgrade?.
or ...
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What is a partial upgrade and when is it necessary?
Sometimes when I am running a development version of Ubuntu, the Software Updater will tell me that a partial upgrade is needed when I check for updates.
What is a partial upgrade, and why are they ...
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How can I repair a new kernel version and omit the "Previous Linux versions" from GRUB?
A few days ago, I upgraded to a new kernel. Unfortunately, before the installation was finished, the computer froze and I had to restart it forcefully.
Now, in GRUB, it shows the new kernel and below ...
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Partial Upgrade from 10.4 hangs
So I've been putting off doing updates and upgrades for AGES, and plus because I don't want unity and like having the window list not grouped at the bottom and having the character palette at the top '...
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How do I recover from this broken upgrade(?)?
I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 through the upgrade wizard. I had about 30 minutes left on my install, and had to leave. When I came back, my computer was frozen, so I had to do a hard reset.
When ...
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How do I access my previous ubuntu disk when booted to usb key
When prompted about the upgrade to 12.04 I clicked yes. All went well until during the cleanup mode an error appeared in the terminal that said something like "too many errors were encountered." A ...
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What to do when cannot install software-center?
I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 today. During upgrade, the system freezed when configuring/installing software center. Unfortunately I had to give it cold reboot. After that I am able to log in to new ...
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How do I know if apt-get is going to do a partial upgrade?
I often update my system with apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. This caused me a few problems with natty and nvidia drivers.
Someone on IRC told me that's because I did a partial ...
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Ubuntu Incorrectly Believes 100% of "/" Used, All Old Kernels & Large FilesRemoved, Won't Complete Upgrade Or Boot
During an upgrade I received an error message stating that I had less 1 GB left on root partition... unfortunately I had to shutdown my machine before I could investigate.
Now, I received this error ...
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Partially Dist-upgrade from CLI?
Sometimes a sudo aptitude upgrade fails and sudo aptitude upgrade --full-resolver then wants to remove about 100 Packages, because of "dependecy conflicts".
Often I can then start update-manager and ...
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Problem Upgrading - Wants to do a Partial Upgrade, Is this safe for my xbmc install?
Running software update gives me this:
Clicking partial upgrade gives me:
It seems that it wants to remove (at least some portion of) xbmc. Is this safe to do without effecting my xmbc install? I'm ...
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12.04 continuously offering partial upgrade
I have Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity and for the last 3 months or so it's been offering me a partial upgrade. The only things that cannot be upgraded are the kernel and dropbox. I'm still on the 3.2.0-37-...
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Do I have to completely reinstall Ubuntu now that it won't boot?
I just tried installing software called Teamviewer. It said there was some kind of error with unresolved dependancies. Then I realized I was trying to install the 32 bit version, but I needed to ...
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what does this means 'error in Version string 'svn3799ppa1~maverick1' version number does not start with digit'?
'error in Version string 'svn3799ppa1~maverick1' version number does not start with digit'
this message is shown each time during the package installation in gnome3 upgrade. Why this message is coming ...
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12.04 update is stuck on preconfiguring packages
For a while I have the problem mentioned in the title. Update is stuck on pre-configuring packages without any other error. I tried almost everything I've found searching Google, but it didn't solve ...
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Partial Upgrade on 12.04.1, On what version i will be upgraded to?
I am using 12.04.1 x86_64 on my system. This is fresh clean install. Every time I check for updates using "Updates Available" menu-item I get the partial upgrade option.
What does this mean? Just ...
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Unable to re-install VLC after a partial upgrade (12.04) due to broken packages
I did a partial upgrade early this morning and followed all the steps trustingly because it usually doesn't cause problems after until now.
VLC was unexpectedly removed without my knowing. I tried to ...
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Will I lose Unity-2d if I upgrade to 12.10
I want to continue to use Unity-2d which I have setup on my 12.04 install...but some of the new 12.10 features I would like to use.
new Disk utility with auto mount settings built in
easier printer ...
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How do I stop Ubuntu from suggesting to upgrade to a non-LTS release?
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. As of recently I started getting message that I need to upgrade the system in order to install new kernel. Look at the image.
However, during this upgrade they will ...
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12.04 LTS, update-manager behaves contradictory?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS two weeks ago by downloading the iso image, creating a startup usb stick from this image, booting the live system and finally installing. I have been working ...
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Partial distro upgrade causes gnome-shell-extensions to be incompatible?
Today I did a partial upgrade through the update manager, and in the process it uninstalled gnome-3. I reinstalled gnome-3 and now I can not install any shell extensions because they are "out of date,"...
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11.04 to 11.10 upgrade aborted due to power cut, now Update Manager saying No internet Connection
While upgrading to 11.10 from 11.04, because of powercut, the system got switched off abruptly(due to no back-up battery) and the upgrade got aborted in the midway.
Next time when I connected to ...
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Upgrade Failed, can I reinstall over current installation?
I was running the distribution upgrade on my System76 Serval Professional, and the upgrade failed while configuring samba.
This installed some of the OS, but even though I can log in (graphically) to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 wants to do "partial upgrade" for newest kernel upgrade
today the software updater in Ubuntu 20.04 prompted me to do the "partial upgrade" for newest kernel upgrade.
My current kernel is 5.13.0-39-generic. The partial upgrade wants to install the ...
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Upgrade problem - "dependency problems prevent configuration of libnih-dbus1"
I have a problem with the upgrading....
When i write
sudo dpkg --configure -a , this is what happens... :
dependency problems prevent configuration of libnih-dbus1:
libnih-dbus1 depends on libnih1 ...
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How do I handle updates having installed digiKam using PPAs?
In Ubuntu 10.10 I installed digiKam:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:philip5/extra
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:philip5/kubuntu-backports
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get ...
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23.04 upgrade interrupted. Kernel 6.2 not fully installed. Bad exit status: 2
My upgrade was interrupted and now when running upgrades via CLI, getting "bad exit status: 2" and "package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1".
Can ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: Stuck at partial upgrade
I have upgraded the Ubuntu from the version 18 to 20.04. After upgrading I have tried to update the software's but it was asking me to do a partial update so I have started it but its almost 8 hours ...
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Restore Manually Downgraded Packages
How do I upgrade (restore) the manually downgraded downgrade packages in Ubuntu?
I was trying to install open-cv on a Jetson TX2(OS-Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS), and there were some dependencies' version ...
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system locked while upgrading from 14.04 to 15.10
I started the process of upgrading from 14.04 to 15.10. after about an hour of the update doing its thing, a window came up that asked if I wanted to replace a gnome file. my intent was to agree, but ...
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Huge mishap: Upgrade from 14.10 to 15.4 froze, now I cant get passed the login-screen
I tried to make an update from Kubuntu 14.10 to 15.4 via the Muon Updater. During installation (while installing cups to be precise), the muon window froze. I imagine it might have been because of ...
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Failed upgrade to 14.04 - /tmp not mounted properly and UUIDS missing from /etc/fstab
I have an old PC with dual boot to Windows Vista (Windows fails to boot though because of an unrepaired avgidshx.sys issue, another story), and on this PC I attempted an upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to ...
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Ubuntu upgrade to 14.04 doesn't show after interrupted attempt
I tried to update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 using the update-manager. But the upgrade process stopped midway due to insufficient disk space. I cleared up enough space, and tried to resume by
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Is this partial upgrade safe to do?
I recently installed nemo to replace nautilus as my file manager (as detailed here) in Ubuntu 13.04. Ever since that, the update manager keeps saying I should run a "partial upgrade". (The answer here ...
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ubuntugis demands a partial upgrade? Is this safe?
I would like to do some GIS in ubuntu. When I use the repo:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
Update manager asks me to do a partial upgrade. The packages it wants to ...
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Graphics lag on Ubuntu 11.10 x64 with Nvidia 9400 GT on Admin user [closed]
Ubuntu 11.10 x64
Kernel 3.0.0-14-generic
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz
2 GB Kingston DDR3
NVidia 9400 GT, driver 280.13
My admin account has a graphics problem. It glitches and fractures. But the ...
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Running on low-graphics mode on upgrade to 19.10
I had upgraded my system from Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10. Due to power failure, there was partial upgrade. Now when I turn on my system, it shows me an error message saying-
"Your system is running in low-...
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Hand me down computer What to do about no password for virgin?
I just got this computer and it has Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. I don't know the first thing about this system. I've always wanted to move over to Linux just never had the time. I can only log in as ...
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Partial Upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS
I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS from the update manager. After upgrade it was not successful and on reboot I found the system having partial upgrade(some icons are from Ubuntu 20.04). ...
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Upgraded to 12.04, still displays the old login screen
The login screen still says Ubuntu 11.10. Needless to say, the upgrade was interrupted. I was able to continue the interrupted upgrade and get a stable machine.
lsb_release -a tells me its 12.04.