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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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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 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 upgrade python-scipy to something newer than 0.7.0?
I would like to make use of some of Runge-Kutta based ODE integration. Apparently this is implemented in scipy since Feb 2009 but Lucid ships with scipy 0.7.0-2 and does not have it yet.
So how can I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Install a single specific package from future distribution
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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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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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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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.
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GIMP 2.7.5 crashed theme and applications
I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I was using GIMP 2.6 from the repo but I read that GIMP 2.7 has merged windows, I wish I hadn't but I wondered it and added the following PPA: matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
After ...
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Partial Upgrade [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Upgrade manager wants me to do a partial upgrade
I recently attempted to upgrade my 11.04 to 11.10, but the upgrade failed. Now whenever I open the update-manager it ...
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Using Maverick how to upgrade certain packages to newer versions?
I tried Natty and was just terrible, even Gnome Classic was buggy. So I switched back to 10.10 and all is well.
However, I miss the newer versions of Rhythmbox, Empathy, Gwibber, etc that are in ...
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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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Replacing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with 12.04 on dual boot?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my laptop installed with the option to boot windows vista when I want to. How can I install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS exaclty where I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS now without ...
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Why is my Ubuntu diplaying inconsistent version using two different methods?
I recently updated my Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 using commands:
sudo apt-get update
and upgraded
sudo apt-get upgrade
After that I did
do-release-upgrade -d
But after sometime my system ...
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Failed server upgrade to 12.04 (RAID 1 needs to be mounted)
I attempted to update my headless server to Precise Pangolin 12.04 restarted the box and get error message "kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block oo swapper not ...
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failed upgrade 11.04 to 12.04
I did an upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 but it didn't go as expected and Ubuntu asked me to do a partial upgrade.
As far as I know,everything went perfect and now I have 12.04. But whenever I check for ...
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why won't my computer update? [closed]
My computer messed up after about 10 minutes of the new update. Now when I try to update it, it says to do a partial update. When I press on this, it still doesn't work. Also, all the typing is to the ...
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Continuously asking for partial upgrade [closed]
I just upgraded my Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 after the announcement of the final release of Ubuntu 12.04. The upgrade process went fine.
But now when I run the update manager it asks for a partial ...
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Forcing a Partial Upgrade [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Upgrade manager wants me to do a partial upgrade
I updated to 12.04 yesterday. While it was updating however it crashed.
I restarted my computer and update manager ...
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Upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 did not complete - now hangs on reboot? [closed]
After the download and during the install it asked if I would accept Microsoft conditions regarding fonts(?), and an was presented but would not accept any decision and just hung there.
Tried ...
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Need Strategy for Fixing 10.10 Upgrade that went bad! [closed]
Was running 10.10 64-bit on Thinkpad X201. I mistakenly clicked on upgrade this morning (really meant to just do a plain old update)... I tried to stop the process, but nothing that I did could get me ...
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Just updated to 12.10, now it's asking for a partial upgrade
I just updated to 12.10 the other day, and after I successfully updated to 12.10, it's asking me to do a partial upgrade? I'm wary about it, because it shouldn't need a partial distribution upgrade, ...
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Installing g++ on 8.04
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (currently I do not have the option to upgrade due to hardware problems). I need to get g++ onto my installation but as this is no longer supported I am unable to use the ...
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Unity is disturbed after a partial upgrade
I had upgraded my workstation from Maverick to Natty. I switched to unity after this upgrade and was quite happy. In the last week of May, 2011 update manager proposed a partial upgrade.
After the ...
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After LibreOffice updated it won't start!
I read Seth's post here: How do I install LibreOffice 4?. I wanted to upgrade, so I ran the commands as provided by Mik to upgrade using stable ppa. For some reason now when I try to run LibreOffice ...
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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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Cannot update system - stuck on zramswap-enabler
I'm having the same problem as mentioned here on two computers (one runs 12.04, while the other runs 11.10), but the solution provided does not work for me.
When I do update and upgrade through the ...
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Ubuntu update 11.10 to 12.04 crashed
I was recently trying to update my laptop running on 11.10 to 12.04 in update manager and in the middle of the update, my update froze. So I waited for an hour before I decided to restart my computer. ...
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How to upgrade flash player on usb-live Ubuntu?
A website requires an upgrade of flash player(while running firefox). My current configuration is:
live-usb of 11.10 Ubuntu
notebook with no internal hdd
one external usb hdd
Internet access
Can ...
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How to upgrade to beta from alpha or to beta 2 from beta 1? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I upgraded from an alpha or beta - am I up to date if I keep upgrading?
How to upgrade to 12.04 beta 1 from 12.04 alpha 2?
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How can I repair a Ubuntu installation that is missing numerous packages?
For an unknown reason, my Ubuntu workstation decided to do a partial upgrade to Oneiric (I had originally ignored the upgrade). After several reboots and running
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
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Multitouch mess-up--Should I do a partial upgrade?
I was trying to get multitouch working on my 11.10 installation. Some googling led me to believe that I should install:
xserver-xorg-input-multitouch
to do that. This seems to be incorrect and ...
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graphic adapter support in ubuntu 12.10
I get a message that my graphics/video card may not be supported in Ubuntu 12.10. I have upgraded to a Diamond PCI video card with 256M of memory. What can I do?
