upgrade to natty failed

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Thu Apr 28 19:07:33 UTC 2011


On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:51 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

N> On 04/28/2011 11:47 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
N> > I got a desktop notification to upgrade to natty and I followed up
N> > with that. But it failed.
N> > 
N> > I got this attached error message.
N> > 
N> > Any suggestion on how to move forward?
N> 
N> Try (in order):
N> 
N> $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
N> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
N> $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
N> $ sudo apt-get install -f
N> 

I think dist-upgrade rather than upgrade should be used here as
"upgrade" will not install new dependencies nor remove obsolete
packages.

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