questions about upgrading packages, systems or hardware.
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How to reinstall newest Linux Kernel?
Hello I upgraded all packages on my Ubuntu 13.04, and kernel also. But in upgrading process kernel upgrade failed, and I must always after grub load select older kernel. It is a terminal command to ...
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Will be something deleted if I upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?
I want to upgrade to 13.04 but I dont know if something will be deleted ...
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Could not update ICEauthority file since upgrading
Since upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 13.04, my login fails with the above message. I have tried:
sudo chown ls user:user /home/user
chmode 600 /home/user/.ICEauthority
What else can I try to fix ...
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Updating to Ubuntu Studio
I would like to install Ubuntu Studio on my computer which has currently a dual boot Ubuntu_13.04/Windows_7. Surfing in the internet I saw that it is possible to upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu Studio. The ...
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Kubuntu freezes during update when trying to download adobe installer
I'm updating to the latest version of Kubuntu, three times running now it's made it to the part where it goes to down load the adobe plugin installer and it freezes. I waited for 3hrs and saw no ...
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ubunu 10.10 unable to upgrade to any latest version [duplicate]
Since Ubuntu 10.10 is now sent to stone age , i tried upgrading it to 11.04 but
sudo do-release-upgrade
gives
Hash Sum mismatch
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ...
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Having trouble updating ubuntu 8.10 to 9.4 [duplicate]
I need help updating Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.4 can anyone help me?
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Unable to locate package update-manager-core
Following the guide I found here I am trying to upgrade my Ubuntu version from 10.10 to 12.04.
As do-release-upgrade gave the error command not found I tried to install update-manager-core which ...
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I have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 and have no taskbar [duplicate]
I upgraded my Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 last night, Dell 64bit PC, using the Software/Update Manager. The upgrade took a long time, but did not seem to have any problems. When I rebooted into Ubuntu ...
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'sudo' command is broken
I updated an old centrino-notebook after Ubuntu 9.10 with 12.04 - now
sudo seem to be broken, because after sudo <whatever> I get the error message:
sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file ...
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Upgraded server to 13.04, still prompting me to do-release-upgrade [duplicate]
I completed an upgrade of my Ubuntu Server installation to 13.04 yesterday. However, upon login I am still being prompted to upgrade to 13.04:
Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-21-generic ...
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Upgrade 12.04 to Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 [duplicate]
I'm currently running 12.04 LTS with gnome-shell installed and Unity removed. What I'd like to do is hop over to Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 without having to do a fresh install. Is it possible to do a ...
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Disk Drive / not ready yet or not available and no keyboard usb
It appears the window to upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 and i click continue. It gave several errors and after reboot appears this:
Disk Drive / not ready yet or not available
But i cannot press S ...
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How to upgrade to the latest patch set in Ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]
I have a Ubuntu 11.10 machine and I want to upgrade the OS to the latest set of patched in 11.10 and I don't want a major version upgrade to 12.04. How do I acheive this?
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How do you reinstall wine after upgrading?
I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 13.04. After doing this, I get this error when trying to reinstall wine:E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? How ...
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Why is Ubuntu 13.04 asking me to upgrade? [duplicate]
I upgraded to 13.04 shortly after it came out. But this computer still prompts me to upgrade. Example:
Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: ...
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Lirc on upgrade to 13.04 freezes all daemons
I've been having some problems with daemons not running on boot since upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 on my HTPC. I have narrowed the problem down to lirc. When lirc is installed and the system boots, ...
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Why can't I set group and ownership of one folder without afffecting the other?
I've upgraded an Ubuntu PC from 10.04 to 12.04.
Problem is all the permissions were wrong on the home folders.
So, I did the following:
sudo chown -R james:james /home/james/*
sudo chown -R ...
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Upgrading Nginx on Raring Ringtail
I have have added ppa:nginx/stable to my apt sources. And have done an update. But when i try to upgrade, it fails to upgrade. Here are the list of commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
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Can not boot after a terminated upgrade
I have moved my HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 to a new PC, but the wired LAN didn't worked, so I have booted the computer from a 13.04 USB stick to see if it is working there (it works), and started the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 not booting after upgrade from 12.10
This is duplicate post from here
After upgrading to 13.04, I was able to boot into ubuntu.
I made change a line in grub from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
to
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Ubuntu 13.04 is not booting
I have upgraded today Ubunutu 12.04 Lts to 12.10 and then to 13.04.
After issue with brightness. I have followed serdotlinecho and added GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor" to grub config.
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This version of ntop is a minimally supported but OLDER version - please upgrade
ntop crashes:
root@dur:~#
root@dur:~#
root@dur:~# ntop
Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 Initializing gdbm databases
Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 ntop will be started as user nobody
Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 ...
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Neverwinter Nights does not run in 13.04
I installed Neverwinter Nights on this very machine while running 12.10, following the instructions here. Since upgrading to 13.04, nwn hangs when I run it. This is a strace log file generated by my ...
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Upgraded to 13.04, mount.cifs returns “Invalid argument” -22 error
Just upgraded my Ubuntu Server to 13.04, and the existing and working fstab configuration for a cifs mount is failing with the generic -22 error (invalid argument):
12:38 PM wesley at wsrv cwd ~
$ ...
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gtk2-engines:i386 breaks 12.10 dist-upgrade
My 12.04 LTS was working just fine and when i tried to upgrade to 12.10, I have 3 packages that failed to install gtk2-engines, libtool and python-gst0.10.
After the upgrade to 12.10 is completed ...
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Ubuntu open to black screen with blinking cursor after upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04
I upgraded my Ubuntu OS from 12.10 to 13.04 and after the process of upgrading it via Software Updater , it requested me to restart the computer .
I restarted and on boot I proceed to the Purple ...
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Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 “Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal”
I am not able to upgrade to the latest version 13.04. The error is:
Failed to download repository information
Check your Internet connection.
Details
W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 12.10 _Quantal ...
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I can't see the “Something else” option while installing Ubuntu
few days ago, I was updating my ubuntu from 12.10, to 13.04, but unfortunately my PC did turn off with no reason (I actually had problems with that by lasted days, but it doesn't matter) and now, when ...
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Trying to download and install the Pinguy Os to another computer [closed]
I am currently downloading the 12.4 version of the pinguyos, i am going to burn the iso to a usb pen drive (as i have no discs) to go on a laptop, currently using a pc with windows 7 on it, what do i ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS custom kernel to support DELLR720
It would be very helpful, if somebody already knows way to upgrade 10.04 LTS custom kernel to support DELLR720.
I am having hard time with setup. I used this,
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symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/apt/methods/http: undefined symbol: _Z14maybe_add_authR3URISs [closed]
I upgraded Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and after that package manager is not working. As sson as package manager is started this popup appears:
You have 4 broken packages on your system!
Use the "Broken" ...
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After upgrading from 12.04 via 12.10 to 13.04, I think I don't have a working window manager
I have a guest virtual machine running under VirtualBox. It had 12.04. I wanted to test upgrading to 13.04, so first I upgraded to 12.10 and then to 13.04. I didn't do much testing of the 12.10 ...
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ubuntu 12.04 kernel upgrade 3.2.0-43 failed to install
I run 12.04 on my laptop, tried to upgrade from 3.2.0-41 to 3.2.0-43.
Got stuck at 62% with the cpu to 70% forever.
After like 30 minutes I quit the upgrade and retired with similar results.
Then I ...
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Can I download the new version and burn it to a CD and install it without reformating the hard drive?
I was upgrading from version 11 to version 12 and during the upgrade it stopped processing giving a message of "stopped processing due to too many errors". Now the operating system is corrupt and does ...
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How to upgrade 12.04.2 kernel and HWE to raring?
As the topic states I want to upgrade my 12.04.2 to newest raring lts kernel and HWE.
Now I have:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 hangs at grab after upgrading
I met with a problem or two every single time I upgraded Ubuntu to a newer version. And this time, when I upgraded Ubunutu from 12.10 to 13.04 the new problem was that, the booting hangs at GRUB.
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After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 - it stays in Ubuntu loading screen
I upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04. After installing the updates, the wizard automatically shut down my computer instead of restarting it. I restarted the system, but it won't go after the Ubuntu loading ...
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What to do?! Upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 failed :(
I got an update reminder to go from 12.10 to 13.04.
I followed the instructions, was able to download the package, and started installing.
Up to a point where my computer (seemed to) restart and there ...
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13.04 hash sum update problem not fixed when lists removed
I've looked at the other questions covering this topic, and while their error messages are identical to mine, their fix doesn't work for me. I have removed all apt lists and updated several times, but ...
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Upgrade to ubuntu 12.10 fails with calculation error
I wanted to upgrade to 13.04 and as a necessity I need to update to 12.10. I have successfully updated in the past from Ubuntu 10 to Ubuntu 11 ans 12.04. Somehow, when I try from terminal or from ...
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Wireless adaptor problem after upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04
My wireless adapter was working probably after I used these two commands:
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe -r b43 && sudo modprobe b43
But when I upgrade to 13.04, ...
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lost user accounts when upgrading ubuntuserver from 11.10 to 12.04 LTS
I have some problem with my Ubuntu machine. I have just configured to finish Domain Controller system with using UbuntuServer. At the moment, I am upgrading UbuntuServer from 11.10 to 12.04 LTS. But, ...
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I Try to update and checking for upgrade in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [duplicate]
And finally it show this message:
W: Failed to fetch gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_universe_binary-i386_Packages Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files ...
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12.04 unattended-upgrades package has lock on /var/lib/dpkg/lock (cannot sudo apt-get update due to lock) [duplicate]
Calling the sudo apt-get update fails to complete. Fails with:
Fetched 2,212 kB in 13s (162 kB/s)
E: ...
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error message while updating R version from 2.10 to 3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04
I get the following error message while trying to update my current R version from 2.10 to 3.0.Any tips would be welcome.
Thanks
mgjohnson@mgjohnson-linux:~$ apt-get install r-base
E: Could not open ...
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Not able to launch Ubuntu after upgrade with 12.04 in VirtualBox
I am using VirtualBox 4.1.2 & installed Ubuntu 10.04. I saved so much data in it. Recently I started upgrading it to 12.04. During the middle of installing 12.04 packages, I shutdown my ...
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How to install apt-get package manager [closed]
I am booting Ubuntu via VirtualBox. PostgreSQL 8.0 is already installed in the disk image I am using. Now I want to upgrade the PostgreSQL database to a higher version.
I tried using:
apt-get upgrade
...
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upgrading from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 [duplicate]
First of all, this is the first time I am trying to upgrade. I want to upgrade my Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04. in some thread it says just to use update manager to update.
I am doing this right now
sudo ...
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how do I upgrade from 12.04 to 13.04 using USB [duplicate]
I can boot from the Live CD for 13.04 off a USB stick, but the option to upgrade my system is greyed out -- is it not possible to upgrade from the Live CD desktop edition? Should I upgrade to 12.10 ...
