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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dpkg took too long [duplicate]
i was running "sudo apt upgrade" but it was failed cus the vm turn off, so i tried to run upgrade again and it says i should run "sudo dpkg --configure -a", so i tried it didnt ...
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Does using upgrade nvidia-driver present the danger of updating to an unsupported driver?
I need to upgrade my nvidia-driver in my two ubuntu machines.
I am thinking of using
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade nvidia-driver
but I also know there is the option of searching for a driver in ...
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Can't upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to newer release
I have a HP EliteBook 2540p. I want to upgrade my Ubuntu 16.04 to a newer release. I found that I need to upgrade to 18.04 before going to 20.04.
I tried the recommended procedure by updating the ...
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How to resolve ZFS userspace tools and kernel module mismatch caused by HWE automatic updates
I am on Ubuntu LTS 20.04 with kernel version 5.15.0-91-generic. I find that my ZFS user utils are version 0.8.3 and my ZFS kernel module is 2.1.5. As I understand it, not only is it risky having the ...
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linux-generic version does not match with uname -r
I have a question with linux-generic.
I installed linux-generic, but it did not match with kernel which was installed on my pc.
When I checked linux-generic version using dpkg -l, it showed 5.15.0.92....
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wireless doesn't work after upgrading to 15.04
I know this was already answered by Evan T at Unable to connect to wireless network following upgrade to 15.04, however, I am having some trouble doing all the indicated steps: after sudo gedit /etc/...
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Kernel 6.7.2 issues
this is mine first time compile a kernel and I have this error
make[3]: *** No hay ninguna regla para construir el objetivo 'debian/canonical-certs.pem', necesario para 'certs/x509_certificate_list'. ...
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Xfreerdp Upgrade to version 1.1 to support Multi Monitor
I was trying to use freerdp with support for multiple monitor using ubuntu 13.10 x64 and I get error :
root@rdp-client:~# xfreerdp /multimon /f /u:a /p:1 /v:192.168.0.140:3389
transport_connect: ...
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Will 23.04 to 24.04 need 23.10 in between? [duplicate]
I'm running 23.04 and recently got the popup saying there will be no more security updates. Since the long term 24.04 is just a couple of months away my plan was just to wait for 24.04, since every ...
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problems with reboot after upgrade
when Ubuntu reboots itself after an update ( unattended-upgrades) or when I send the reboot command manually, sometimes it happens that instead of rebooting, the server shuts down.
How can I solve the ...
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Preventing Ubuntu upgrade to switch the storage driver from Overlay2 to aufs for docker container
I am upgrading an old server which is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04.3 LTS, going first from 18.04 to 20.04 and then to 22.04 LTS.
The old server with 18.04 has some docker container that uses the ...
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Ubuntu 16 04 device descriptor read/64 error 110
Ubuntu 16 04 device descriptor read/64 error 110
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After an upgrade to 16.04, this is what I get when starting up. This is a dual boot system and win 8 starts fine but I cannot get past this on ...
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scanner problem
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.4 to 22.4 LTS and lost the HP Icon and the printer still works OK but trying to use the "Document Scanner" program, nothing works.
When trying to Uninstall ...
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Can I perform a distribution upgrade without rebooting?
I would, ideally, like to run a distribution upgrade that doesn't end in a complete reboot of the machine (owing to an irritation in my hardware that requires a period of disconnection from the power ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 VPS not showing the actual disk size
I just bought a VPS Linux Ubuntu 20.04 which uses NVMe and storage which is said to be 80GB, I tried running apt update && apt full-upgrade -y and everything works normally, I intend to ...
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No internet connection after upgrading to 5.15.0-83 on Ubuntu 22.04.3
A few days ago I ran an automatic upgrade on my Ubuntu 22.04.3. Today I restarted my PC and it now it cannot connect to the internet.
I tried both Wi-Fi (in 2 different cards) and a LAN cable, but the ...
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Upgraded to 22.04 from 20.04 Now Ethernet Doesn't Work
I put off upgrading to avoid exactly these kinds of problems. I found a temporary work around that lets me get online for that session, but I have to do it every time.
It's entering this command:
echo ...
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How to install, fglrx on (K)ubuntu 15.04 ? Starting version 219 AMD R9 290x
i have upgraded my Ubuntu 14.10 to Kubuntu 15.04 and as i thought the graphics driver would mess up.
I am looking for a step-by-step tutorial how to install fglrx on Kubuntu 15.04.
On 14.04 i had ...
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sata drive not updating to current kernel. nvme drive has 3 choices for kernel
my computer has a sata drive sda that it boots from but the system runs on a nvme drive which is selected by the grub on the sata.
the nvme is regularly updated and I watch the logwatch files for any ...
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How do I update when I get this in terminal?
How do I update when I get this message?
'''base-files/jammy-updates 12ubuntu4.5 amd64 [upgradable from: 12ubuntu4.4]
gjs/jammy-updates 1.72.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.72.0-1]
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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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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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how to stop upgrade during ubuntu 22.04 liverserver ISO installation
Issue: Downloaded ubuntu liveserver 22.04 ISO from official site, where it comes by 5.15.0-43 kernel as of (9th December 2022). During install their is a mandatory field "mirror address", by ...
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Updating TOR screwed up my client : "Download Error: 404"
it's been ages that Tor browser has that update pop up. Today, because the browser was lagging and freezing/skipping frames while streaming videos, I gave it a shot and updated, it warned me it'll ...
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Extension to Ubuntu Pro
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To install the latest update I need Ubuntu Pro. Under "Your subscriptions" it tells me: "Free Personal Token - Machines 5 - Created 16 Jan 2024 - Expires Never".
Update ...
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How does delta update using debdelta-upgrade work?
A part of message after sudo apt-get upgrade:
190 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 830 MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.0 MB of additional disk space ...
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apt-get upgrade/install (anything) exited with error
after last apt-get update I am no longer able to install anything.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The ...
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How do I repair an ubuntu install with apparmor running forever at startup?
I tried to upgrade an Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS install to 23.04 last night. Upon reboot, the system will hang trying to start AppArmor. I found a few posts in the past about disabling app armor from ...
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Ubuntu server lts 22.04.3 errors && warnings while trying to download samba [duplicate]
When I try to download samba with sudo apt-get install samba I always get the same errors:
I'm very knew to ubuntu and I am following a tutorial to try and make a home server: https://youtu.be/...
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Physical side key volume button stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04
After upgrading to 23.04, the physical volume buttons on the side panel of the HP EliteBook stopped working. Though audio, volume increase/decrease works fine with Fn + F6/F7 buttons are not ...
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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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Cannot resolve hostnames on ping after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04
I have recently upgraded a server running 18.04 to 20.04. The in-place upgrade seemed to go fine and installed without a hiccup, however the end goal is to upgrade to 22.04 and when I went to go run ...
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Do green numbers on icons in the dock mean I should be doing something?
I just now upgraded from Ubuntu 22.10 to Ubuntu 23.04 using the GUI upgrade tool.
Since the upgrade, little green circles with numbers have appeared in the upper right corner of some of the icons in ...
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Is a clean install better than upgrading?
Is it better to install Ubuntu completely new or is the upgrade process just as good? In other words, will my computer run just as problem-free and efficiently when I upgrade as opposed to a fresh ...
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Raspberry Pi 5 as Ubuntu Server 23.10 or 24.04?
I have at the moment an Raspberry Pi 4 (RasPi4) with Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 running stable as Web-Server and DNS-Server.
Working great but because of better performance I want to switch to Raspberry Pi ...
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The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-modules-5.15.0-50-generic
I have updated my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I am getting some errors while updating and also coudn't able to install some softwares.
akhil@KHUSHI:~/.config$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... ...
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Once-normal package updates are being labeled System Upgrades
For a week or so now, I've had a "System Upgrade" show up in my Kubuntu (22.04.3 LTS) laptop's Discover at least once a day that, when installed, requested I reboot my system. I was confused ...
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Mangled characters after distribution upgrade
I recently upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and now all my system characters are squares like:
I presume this is because some font I was using in 20.04 no longer exists, and the upgrade process wasn't ...
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How to upgrade the php version in Lampp in Ubuntu
I need to upgrade the php version to 7.2 in my Lampp. Actually, when I am checking php -v in terminal, it's showing the following result:
PHP 7.2.1-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Jan 11 ...
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unattended-upgrades does not fetch updates unless running apt-get update beforhand
Trying to achieve "automatic updates" on a private debian repository using unattended-upgrades
Tried checking 1755716 suggested solution with no success
The issue is new versions are not ...
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Applications menu filled with lots of LSP apps after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.10
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10 on my laptop. I looked in the applications menu and there are pages of apps that have the LSP icon and I can't remove them, even when I run sudo apt remove lsp-plugins. ...
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"apt full-upgrade" returns "1 not fully installed or removed."
I tried to uninstall two earlier versions of Java by merely removing the files, but now got this error and don't know how to solve. What's the issue/solution?
$ sudo apt full-upgrade
Reading package ...
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F1-F12 keys behaves as function keys after upgrade to 22
I have keychron k5 b1 keyboard. On ubuntu 18 everything was working fine but after upgrade all f keys have function behaviour by default. F12 does not open a guake terminal asit should - instead it ...
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How to resolve unmet dependencies: libpam-modules : PreDepends: libpam-modules-bin (= 1.3.1-5ubuntu4.6)? [duplicate]
When I try and run sudo apt-get upgrade I get the following error:
root@FDPM:~# sudo apt upgrade
sudo: unable to resolve host FDPM: Name or service not known
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Disable Ubuntu 22.04 automatic aws kernel updates
I have a ubuntu 22.04 server running on AWS. A while ago there was an automatic kernel update which caused the server to crash and it was a nightmare since it was headless (aws).
Since then I manually ...
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How to upgrade VirtualBox 6.1.38 to 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04?
The VirtualBox that came from the Ubuntu repository while setting up my new 22.04 system a couple weeks back was virtualbox-qt 6.1.38. How can I upgrade the system to VirtualBox 7.0?
According to the ...
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Just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10. Bluetooth not working
Even after turning my device on for Pairing Mode, no device would show up in Bluetooth section to be able to connect. I mean there actually are no devices found.
I updated and upgraded everything in ...
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After upgrading Ubuntu 20 LTS to 22 LTS, kubernetes (apiserver) won't start
I just upgraded my single-node Kubernetes cluster VM from Ubuntu 20 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Most of the applications start properly, but I can't get my Kubernetes cluster to start.
For some reason, ...
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How do I use OpenSSL 1.1.1 in Ubuntu 22.04?
I understand that Ubuntu 22.04 upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0. This has broken my university's secure WiFi access point joining script because "some insecure algorithms have been disabled by default&...
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