Problem with updating

[Chris Robinson]

It's best to use command line for this I've found.  Update manager still seems to be a little flaky though it does work for most things.  Do the following:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

It should update you to Alpha 2 if you are not already, with kernel 3.2.0-15.  Always look very carefully if it says it is going to remove packages and do not proceed if it wants to remove something important (like Xorg for example).  During Alphas and Betas you will often get offered a partial upgrade.  It is best not to go ahead with this until you are sure it's the right move.

In between dist-upgrades you can just use update manager or 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

More information here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1859240

Currently it seems to be safe to update as far as apt-get will go, but if you have something different on your machine and dependencies are missing the results could be very messy.  Apart from the recent update which seriously broke Nvidia on 32bit, I've managed to get all the way from the start of Alpha 1 to todays updates without too much trouble.

Chris



________________________________
 From: Petko <pditchev at gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Sunday, 12 February 2012 8:49 AM
Subject: Problem with updating
 
Hey guys , I haven't updated for the last 2-3 days and now as I decided to do it the update manager tells me that a partial update must be made first and then the whole thing . So ok , I go ahead , but as the update dialog shows (same as the one for updating to the next distro release ) on calculating changes it tells me that I don't have the ubuntu-desktop package (which I checked and do have (also reinstalled in synaptic to be sure) ) . So has anyone else encountered that or know how to fix it ? (I'm on Precise if it hasn't become clear )

Petko

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