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' package may not be in a working state. Please consider…
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Install a single specific package from future distribution
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 do it ?
What will happen if I just add to my…
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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 log in to the stalled system over the…
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How to only apt-get upgrade Certain Applications?
I only have a traffic-limited mobile broadband connection at my disposal. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade wants to get ~500MB of data which is not feasible for me right now.
Hence, is it possible to only upgrade certain applications, e.g. Firefox?
I am…
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How to resume release upgrade?
I was upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 via ssh (didn't use screen). My ssh connection was interrupted when do-release-upgrade script was about to remove obsolete packages. Now when I reconnect and run it it just says No new release found. How to finish…
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How do I upgrade python-scipy to something newer than 0.7.0?
How can I upgrade to a higher scipy (say 0.8.0) with a minimum amount of dependency hell?
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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 no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has…
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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 bashrc file and an option menu was displayed.
From…
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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 upgraded.
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Why am I unable to install,remove or upgrade packages?
When I wanna do anything with Synaptic or apt-get or stop,start,restart postgresql I receive following error
Setting up postgresql-common (114) ...
* Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server * Insecure…
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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 is this normal update, like the security updates…
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How can I repair a new kernel version and omit the "Previous Linux versions" from GRUB?
A few days ago, I upgraded to a new kernel. Unfortunately, before the installation was finished, the computer froze and I had to restart it forcefully.
Now, in GRUB, it shows the new kernel and below it a "Previous Linux versions" item. Whenever I…
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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 necessary? Sometimes users run into problems when…
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Partial Upgrade from 10.4 hangs
So I've been putting off doing updates and upgrades for AGES, and plus because I don't want unity and like having the window list not grouped at the bottom and having the character palette at the top 'cause I have to write with foreign Characters…
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What to do when cannot install software-center?
I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 today. During upgrade, the system freezed when configuring/installing software center. Unfortunately I had to give it cold reboot. After that I am able to log in to new 11.10 but when I try to install anything,
I…
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