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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What will happen if i will terminate the update in between (from the terminal)
so i use computer for unknown time. sometimes i use it for more than 3 hr. and sometimes lesss than half hour. what will happen if i will stop the update from the terminal when the packages are being
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Only a partial update done on Ubuntu
Attempted an upgrade of Ubuntu as the update app said a newer version of the operating system was available. Tried in GUI first then in terminal. But now it's saying only a partial update available ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 [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 asks to ...
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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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Ubuntu update gone wrong [duplicate]
I tried to update to 12.10, but in the mist of installing, the entire computer froze, and not knowing about REISUB I forced quit my computer
Ever since, every time I updated, I was given a message ...
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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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tried to update from lucid lynx, now computer won't boot
I don't know much about my computer, I have been trying to get an old custom computer updated. it was running on lucid lynx, I tried to update from the terminal with some 'copy and pasted' 'sudo ...
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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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update and upgrade ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]
I have Dell latitude E6430, system information: Ubuntu 11.10 ,OS type 64 bit.
when I tried to make updates to my Ubuntu 11.10 , it gave me a message , that you can't update anything until you remove ...
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