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A software upgrade is the process of replacing an older version of one or more programs to a newer version. Use this tag for questions about upgrading individual packages, or the entire operating system to a later release.

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libc6 failed Bionic upgrade

While upgrading from Xenial to Bionic on a VPS server based on a 64bit, I get the following error: Could not install the upgrades The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable ...
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libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.2: cannot open shared object file

After upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, I can't run php commands. php -v shows me this: php: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
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Unable to upgrade from 20.04.2 to 20.04.3

I recently bought a Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 20.04.2 pre-installed in it. After my first time login, it did update a few software packages, but I was still at 20.04.2 at the end of it. I tried apt-get ...
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Plasma Could Not Correctly Use OpenGL 2 after upgrading to 18.04

After I upgrade Kubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04, and restarted it, all I'm seeing is my mouse cursor, which responds to my movements, and that's pretty much it. I tried to see if I can start up sddm, but ...
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Flash doesn't work in firefox after upgrade Kubuntu to 14.10

I upgraded Kubuntu 14.04-x64 to 14.10. Now flash does not work in Firefox. Now flash is an empty area which sometimes is black when cursor is under it. But flash still works in Chromium.
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Permanently solve “GRUB was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present”

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine (local, no cloud) which was created as a clone of another computer. Each time GRUB packages are upgraded using apt upgrade, I get the following message:1 The ...
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"there were errors during the upgrade" - how to proceed?

I have just upgraded my Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04, and got the following message: The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade process. To continue please press [ENTER] ...
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Cannot upgrade EC2/Ubuntu to 18.04.4 with do-release-upgrade. Maybe it's python?

I'm trying to upgrade my Amazon EC2 instance from Ubuntu 16.04.6 to 18.04.4. I've already performed the cleanups like apt clean, apt autoremove etc... Then I start do-release-upgrade, I confirm to ...
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After 19.10 upgrade I have an extra frozen cursor

I recently upgraded from 19.04 to 19.10. Ever since, there has been an extra (large) cursor in the lower right of my screen. It is frozen and does not move. It returns on the lockscreen, sleep and ...
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Swap problems after upgrading from 14.04 to 16.06

After upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04 booting started to be very slow. It seems to be a problem with swap partitions. Bellow I attach some details. cat /var/log/boot.log [FAILED] Failed to ...
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How can I upgrade to the latest wpa_supplicant?

I have (more precisely, my employer has) a machine running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which comes with wpa_supplicant version 2.1. There are improvements in wpa_supplicant 2.5 which I believe may help with ...
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ZFS doesn't allow me to follow kernels with updates

I installed ubuntu 20.04 sometime in june. by now I'm updated to ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS there's been a few kernel updates. end everytime I run updates Zsys tries to put new kernel version as the first ...
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Clang++ cannot find lstdc++ after system upgrade

I have a small project in C++ that compiled fine until I upgraded Xubuntu to 15.04. When I tried to rebuild it with cmake, this message appeared in the middle of the output: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -...
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What is wrong with new upgrade

Recently i upgraded to Ubuntu20.04 Kernel: 5.4.0-26-generic This is the error msgs i get at every startup: [ 0.852002 ] Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed [ 1.034932 ] integrity: Problem ...
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"while scanning your repository information no entry about artful" during LTS

Having trouble upgrading from 16.04 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS. Getting this error during the process "while scanning your repository information no entry about artful" Sources.list root@nc:~# cat /etc/...
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Black screen after rebooting following upgrade to 18.10

To upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 I executed the following commands: "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and "sudo do-release-upgrade" Upgrade proceeded normally until the system reached the reboot phase. ...
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Update Manager terminal output tiny after upgrade to 16.10

When I use the update manager to update packages after upgrading to 16.10, if I show details during the updates, the area of the window that displays the terminal output is so small I can only see one ...
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How can I use a local package mirror at system installation time?

I would like to use a local mirror of the Ubuntu repositories when I'm completing an Ubuntu Server installation. I have a mirror already created to serve the repository over the LAN using http, this ...
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problems with deamontools-run and SV after upgrade to 16.04

i just upgraded to Kubuntu 16.04 from 14.04. However, installer warns me, it can be in unusable state. I haven't restarted yet and am afraid to do so. sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up daemontools-...
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bluetooth problem after upgrade from ubuntu 14 to 16.04

after upgrade to ubuntu 16.04 i can't turn on bluetooth on my laptop . try reinstall bluez and other bluetooth application same as blueman and bluetooth but don't solve problem service bluetooth ...
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After 16.04 upgrade install systemd-sysv failed, how can I check that I fixed it?

I updated to 16.04LTS from 15.10. It has been reported as a bug that the message 'not installed systemd-sysv' appears, which it also did on my machine and the installation aborted with the suggestion ...
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After closing the lid, no screen display and computer hangs. Have to restart everytime.(14.10)

When I lock my laptop and close the lid, and again after sometime,when I open the lid, their is a blank screen with no display and even if I press any key(s), my system does not wake up.I have to ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04 system freezes and compiz usage 100% CPU

After upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04 system freezes than I run something in fullscreen (Kodi.tv, Steam in Big Picture mode). In htop I'm seeing 99%-102% cpu usage from compiz. sudo lshw -C video *-...
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Failed to load ZFS module stack

Have been using zfs on linux (zfs-native/stable) raidz on 14.04 for several months without hitch and decided to move across some more important files as considered it trustworthy or I guess "stable" (...
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"The software on this computer is up to date" while upgrading 12.10 to 13.04

Before you guys close this question as duplicate, I did go through How do I upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04? and nothing solves my problem there. When I try to upgrade my ubuntu 12.10 installation it ...
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grub held back from update for weeks

the two packages "grub-efi-amd64-bin" and "grub-efi-amd64-signed" have been held back from being updated(upgraded) by apt for more than a week now maybe two weeks. sometimes when ...
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Firefox and Thuderbird freezes OS after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04

Firefox and Thunderbird freezes OS after upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04. Both apps run for about 5 seconds before freezing the system. I tried changing snap Firefox to non-snap Firefox (deb) using ...
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Upgrade 20.04 to 22.04 missing software & Updates, Software updater and screen lock

I updated my computer from 20.04 to 22.04 and am missing software & Updates, Software updater and screen lock from the Activities search. It seems possible that I am missing other items as well. ...
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Upgrade to 21.10 brings 15-20° CPU temp increase

Last Saturday night, I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.10. In reviewing my logs, I've noticed that immediately upon my upgrade, and lasting since, my PC's CPU temp baseline has jumped 15-20°. See ...
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How to get notified about firmware upgrades?

I'm lucky enough to have found a laptop that can use the Linux firmware updating software (fwupdmgr). This is a Dell Latitude 5510, which according to the Linux-friendly salesperson is even certified ...
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Black screen after kernel upgrade to 5.11.0-25-generic

I'm using 3 monitors 1920x1080 (laptop and two external) on Ubuntu 21.04. After kernel upgrade from 5.11.0-18-generic to 5.11.0-25-generic the built-in monitor started to show only a black screen, ...
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Automatic updates paused because 'Metered' - yet it is NOT a metered connection

Ubuntu 20.04.2, using Mate desktop I was trying to check on the update status of one of my apps and found that Software is no longer doing automatic updates because of my 'Metered' connection and it ...
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apt-get upgrade stuck at "setting up base-files (11ubuntu5.2)" - Ubuntu 20.04

I am trying to execute apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on an Ubuntu 20.04 system: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20....
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install postgis on ubuntu 18.04 after upgrading gdal to 3.0.4

I upgraded GDAL on my ubuntu 18.04 server to GDAL 3.0.4 and downgraded Postgres from 12 to 11 After finishing GDAL upgrade (gdal installtion done according to follow link Install GDAL Packages on ...
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Any browser tends to freeze Ubuntu 20.04

Any browser tends to freeze ubuntu 20.04 OS upgrade. This apparently happens once or twice every other update, upgrade, dist-upgrade and etc...dating back went UBUNTU was some Linux favor. Beside ...
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desktop pc crashed on ubuntu 20.04 LTS release upgrade from 19.10

Have a Dell laptop pc dual booting windows 10 pro and Ubuntu 19.10. It was working fine for past few months. I tried to do a release upgrade to ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The upgeade was happening smoothly ...
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How to update Bios of a Lenovo Ideapad

I've recently purchased an Ideapad 530S-14ARR. I would like to update the Bios to this device but the bios update package is only available for Windows. What options do I have to update it? ...
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I am unable to save files from LibreOffice and Web Browser

Update: It has been marked duplicate of another fstab question which I have checked. There it is about external drive but for me, write permission from Browsers and LibreOffice is not working on any ...
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Unable to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.10

I have a working Ubuntu 18.04 installation, and trying to upgrade to 18.10 (as I have successfully done on several of my other systems). However, on this system, "do-release-upgrade" fails without an ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 dpkg/apport problem

I recently updated python2 on my system, and now whenever I attempt to update or install any packages, I get an error of the following sort: sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done ...
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Recover from aborted do-release-upgrade

I executed do-release-upgrade on desktop 18.04 and then realized that this command is for servers. But it started the upgrade process anyway without any prompt, rewrote configuration files and only ...
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unable to start lightdm after upgrade to 18.04

I updated my ubuntu 16.04 machine a few days ago to 18.04. I had a few issues upgrading but I've delt with those. only one issue remain: no GUI. I've spent days troubleshooting and googling the issue ...
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How to install cryptsetup 2.x to Ubuntu 16.04?

I came across with encrypted container created with LUKS2, but as a user of Ubuntu 16.04, which comes with 1.7.2, this container can't be opened. It seems I'd need a newer version of cryptsetup, 2.x.
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no /run/dbus/system_bus_socket

I wanted to upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 but the upgrade failed, I think the reason was that policykit-1 was left unconfigured. Rebooting did not help and now I am in the emergency console. I found ...
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systemctl --user returns "Unit was not found" on Ubuntu 18.04

I just fresh installed Ubuntu 18.04. I am having an issue with systemd, which worked fine with 17.10. My service files are located in ~/.config/systemd/user. I tried a daemon-reload. didn't work. I ...
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Upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 - apt-get and most packages broken - Unable to correct dependencies

I fired off an upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04, which went south as far as dependencies are concerned. Unfortunately, I was inside of a virtualenv, which may explain why some of the upgrades didn't ...
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What is the support lifetime for Ubuntu Core?

None of the information I can find about Ubuntu Core mentions how long each release is supported for. The end of life page, and the releases wiki, make no mention of Ubuntu Core. Does it follow the ...
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Nautilus and gedit crash after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10

Recently I upgraded my computer (ASUS laptop, AMD86) from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to the latest Ubuntu 16.10. I encountered the following issue: when I tried to launch "Files" (Nautilus) from the launch bar, ...
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Some theme elements broken after upgrade to 16.10?

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 today, I noticed that some UI elements changed and I wonder, wether this is wanted or not. This image shows the problems: The borders of text field in Firefox look ...
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Fatal Python error/ImportError When Upgrading

When attempting apt upgrade or apt update-manager I receive the following error: Setting up update-notifier-common (3.168.1) ... Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not ...
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