upgrade to natty failed

[NoOp]

On 04/29/2011 05:35 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 29 April 2011 00:00, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 04/28/2011 03:15 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> ...
>>> I'd do
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^
>>
>> He may already have it installed. It's just easier to;
>> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>> If it's not installed, it will install it. If it is installed, then
>> reinstalling should (hopefully) clean it up if there are issues.
>>
> 
> You may not have noticed the ^ on the end. This is different from
> --reinstall. In fact --reinstall is largely useless for ubuntu-desktop
> because it's just a meta-package, and as such won't really do much
> over and above "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop", whereas "sudo
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^" _will_ pull in stuff that's missing,
> which ubuntu-desktop depends upon.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

Thanks! I learn something new. :-)