Questions tagged [upgrade]
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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Can I do a release update on Ubuntu 7.10? [duplicate]
I have an older server that still has Ubuntu 7.10, is there a way that I could update this since it is no longer supported?
lsb_release -a gives:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
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Airtel 4G dongle not detecting in 14.04 after upgrade?
I recently upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS. I have an Airtel 4G dongle that was working perfectly with 13.10 but after I upgraded, its not detecting it. But if I am starting ubuntu with dongle ...
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External Hard disk being mounted in a different path after upgrade to 14.04
I have upgraded my Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. After the upgrade I noticed that my external hard disk is being mounted in a separate path.
Earlier, It used to be in /media/u10. Now I see it is ...
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Will upgrading to Ubuntu 14 from Ubuntu 12.04 erase or damage my files?
I currently have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for my workstation. I received the automatic notice to prompt me to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04. If I do this (upgrade the OS to Ubuntu 14.04), will my files be erased or ...
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Is it safe to manualy install RoundCube 1.0?
I am running VestaCP on Ubuntu 14.04. RoundCube was installed by VestaCP but it was done by the last release version 0.9.5. Now I need a feature in 1.0 so I need to upgrade but there isn't a package ...
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Complete Upgrade Failure
Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu OS to 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" by following the recommendation while inside Ubuntu. However, it failed miserably and the only thing I get now is a black screen with the ...
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After upgrade no GUI
I am new to Ubuntu. I recently received a 'hand me down' machine at work, and decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04.1, in the hopes of solving some problems I was having.
The upgrade started fine, but ...
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How do I gain access of my files again?
Hello,I know I shouldn't have, but I've interrupted the upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 14.10 and now I can't go past the login screen... When I try to launch Ubuntu in recovery mode, it displays an ...
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I Get "gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found" error while importing google key
Everything was working but suddenly stopped. I just didn't upgrade my Ubuntu 14.04 for two months. Now when I want to upgrade I get some errors.
First I run sudo apt-get update:
E: GPG error: http://...
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How to overclock a CPU in xubuntu
I have been wanting to overclock my CPU by about .5 ghz. The only problem is is that I don't know how to do it. A lot of people say it won't increase your framerate but I'm doing this so I can at ...
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Differences between two versions of 14.04 Ubuntu
A few weeks ago the systems operator for my division at the Laboratory upgraded my workstation from 12.04 to 14.04. (I was unable to do so myself, since the upgrade manager wanted only to upgrade to ...
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How to show urgent upgrades in synaptic
At times, I would like to use Synaptic to find only those upgradable packages that have high urgency upgrades available. Is there a way to define a filter that does this?
Example: today I upgraded ...
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How to fix upgrade hang from saucy->trusty: "Removing ___ from Mono"
On a recent upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy) to 14.04.1 LTS (trusty), the process kept hanging at multiple prerm and postrm scripts for removing Mono packages. The symptom of the problem are ...
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why i can't upgrade and manage my packages
why when i tried to upgrade or remove something this message comes in:
"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem."
what should i have to do ...
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Failed to fetch Sources and Packages, getting 404 [closed]
I'm trying to update my Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS prior to doing release upgrade. Unfortunately, it's not working. APT is claiming that Sources do not exist at lv archive repo, which clearly is not true:
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two users in home directory
I have two users in my home folder: one is called "nico" (new username after release upgrade) and the other is called "nicolo" (old username).
In the "nico" folder there is small home picture, is ...
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apt-get update error ubuntu 12.04 to version 14
i can't run an update from ubuntu 12.04 to 14, during the update process i got souces error. But my network seems to be ok. How can i fix it?
I did the update on my laptop, but i can't do it on my ...
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Is it possible to copy a web server?
As of late my trusty old VPS (12.04LTS) has become slower and slower to the point where it's now completely unresponsive. I'm probably much at fault here as I've upgraded and installed packages ...
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My bash script depends on ffmpeg which was removed when I upgraded to 14.04. What to do? [duplicate]
I have a bash script to capture images using the webcam and it depended on ffmpeg. I recently upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 and noticed that ffmpeg was removed and this script wouldn't work anymore. ...
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How to fix tons of broken packages [duplicate]
I apologize in advance for the poorly formated question: I don't know much about linux so I don't know what information to include.
I was really lazy about upgrading, and up until yesterday, I was ...
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Will the boot-degraded flag remain after upgrading to 14.04?
I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 and have a RAID setup with the boot-degraded option. If I upgrade to 14.04 will the boot-degraded option remain? I manage this server remotely and would hate to ...
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Need to delete packages from '/boot' directory
I'm very new to Linux so please bear with me. I attempted to upgrade to 14.04 from 12.04.02 I received the error:
"The following packages have unmet dependencies"
I ran apt-get -f install and ...
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Error while running apt-get upgrade
I was running apt-get upgrade on a machine with Trusty server installed on it. I seem to get the following error
asdf@pqrs:/⟫ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists....
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14.04 Upgrade warning
I currently work on Ubuntu 12.04. When I install Updates though Update manager, it also invites me to upgrade to 14.04. When I accept it, after fetching some packages, it shows a warning!
The command ...
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Nautilus slow and finally crashes
I migrated my laptop in 14.04.1 LTS (from a 12.04 partially upgraded in 13.10 for hardware support). Since then I have randomly very slow nautilus windows opening. When that happen, if a nautilus ...
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I use ubuntu with lubuntu-desktop, do I dare upgrade ubuntu?
I use ubuntu, but I had problems with Unity, so I changed to use lubuntu-desktop:
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
The updating manager is now saying that there is a new version of ubuntu, and ...
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How to configure Ubuntu Server for headless boot [duplicate]
Because of the recently announced bash environment variable vulnerability, I chose this evening to upgrade my headless server from 13.10 to 14.04 - saucy to trusty.
Upon running sudo shutdown -r now ...
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Upgrade to 14.04 crashed cannot login using the GUI
I just tried to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 and as it got to point of deleting old packages, the process got stuck, basically there was a pop up box that disappeared so I had to restart.
Now I see ...
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Upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04, re-activation of 3rd party sources, login doesn't show up
I've just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04. It went all fine, also the restart. Then, I re-activated some third party packages sources, and I did some updates. Afterwards, ubuntu doesn't start. The screen ...
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Getting 14.04 to run in graphics mode on thinkpad 430s (after upgrade)
I have recently upgraded my Thinkpad430s from 12.10 -> 13.10 -> 14.04.
After the upgrade to 13.10 I could not boot in graphics mode and in
order to start the system I had to edit the grub entry to ...
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Network, usb and unity not working after upgrade to 14.04
I had a dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7.
My update manager started to do weird things a while ago. It didn't get any new updates and it crashed a thousand times when I clicked on "upgrade ...
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Corrupted font after Ubuntu upgrade
I updated Ubuntu this morning and had a LibreOffice document open at the time. During the upgrade all the a's in the document were replaced with dots. This seems to have taken place with the ...
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How to upgrade from 12.10 to 14.04 [duplicate]
I happen to be running Ubuntu 12.10 on my machine and I noticed that it is no longer supported since there are no quantal repositories left and I can't update or install any software any more.
I ...
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Stop Distribution Upgrade Message Globally
So I am an IT consultant and a business i do work for wanted to make the switch to Linux on about 25 machines since their software is web based and Linux is more secure. I set them up with a custom ...
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Upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04, cannot log in
I recently did the automatic upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04, but I can't log in to my Ubuntu boot anymore.
I get a dark blue/black screen after the Ubuntu loading screen. If I move the mouse, I can see ...
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avconv gives error when trying to split a file in since 14.04 upgrade
I use the following command to split a file, but since an upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 it gives an error. The resulting file only contains audio, no video.
avconv -i cam.mp4 -ss 00:14:00 -t 00:28:00 -...
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apt-get upgrade does not consider manually built and installed packages
I tried the following, since I apply custom patches to some packages:
When apt-get upgrade shows packages to upgrade, I download the sources using apt-get source, apply my patches, rebuild, install (...
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AWS Ubuntu14.04 Instance mktemp fails on upgrade
Have run into an issue with an upgrade using Ubuntu14 on AWS. This seems different to such probs as full /boot and the like. How do I rectify this?
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.2) ...
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Updated to 14.04.1 can't launch desktop, black screen with cross cursor
Updated my HP Proliant N54L from 13.04 to 14.04.1, everything went smoothly until the reboot, as it started to load up the desktop it displayed this screen:
I can access terminal from that screen, I ...
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How to update ClamAV engine from 0.98.1 to 0.98.4
ClamAV update process started at Mon Sep 22 04:59:22 2014
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.98.1 Recommended version: 0.98.4
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav....
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Upgrade failed and Unable to Install update in Update Manager
I am unable to proceed with the upgrade or updateing via Update Manager. This is the Exception I am getting While upgrading. Please help.
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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Compare two repos - a table of all all package versions?
I'd like to see and compare versions of all packages in two different repos.
Something like:
libfoo | 1.2 | 1.3
libbar | 2.4 | 3.0
libbaz | ... | ...
Is there some such web?
Or a way to obtain list ...
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File permissions on NFS mount show up as 'nobody' after upgrading to 14.04
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server that exports a couple of filesystems over NFS.
server$ cat /etc/exports
/home 192.168.42.0/255.255.255.0(rw,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534,async,no_subtree_check)
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Filesystem check or mount failed
I had ubuntu 12.04, so try to upgrade it, after the upgrading, i got a black screen, and when restarting the following errors are reported:
Filesystem check or mount failed. A maintenance shell will ...
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How to make sure that grub is properly configured? [duplicate]
On a production server, I just did a dist-upgrade from ubuntu 14.04 to 14.04.01.
During the upgrade, I encountered a serious problem with configuring grub.
I finally traced back the source of the ...
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ubuntu desktops lost while updating
I've had Ubuntu 12.03 w/Unity desktop installed on my computer along with Gnome 2 and XBMC desktops which I used occasionally. In attempting to upgrade Gnome 2 to Gnome 3, I inadvertently wiped out ...
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How to check and set Refresh Rate with Nvidia Graphics Card
When I tried to update from Ubuntu 12 to Ubuntu 14 I got a warning message against updating stating that your machine does not have 3D support for running the unity desktop environment. My graphics ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS sources.list contents [duplicate]
This question is a followup for this [one].1
I've identified the problem as being related to different xorg driver versions. My /etc/apt/sources.list file on the upgraded system is as follows:
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Failure to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04
I was trying to upgrade to 14.04, everything vent fine without errors but after reboot the system has crashed. I am getting this error message:
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /root failed: Invalid ...
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Upgrade to gcc-4.9 broke clang++
Recently I have upgraded to gcc-4.9 but it totally broke my clang++ and I am unable to compile anything. Error I am getting:
In file included from src/tester.cpp:11:
In file included from /usr/...
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