upgrade to natty failed

[Goh Lip]

On 04/29/2011 08:35 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
>

That's something new. Care to provide a link on this, Alan?

Unfortunately, or rather fortunately I guess, I do not have anything to 
test this on and googling and reading up on apt shows up nothing on ^ .

Thanks - Goh Lip