worked, but badly .. Re: update to ubuntu 15 failed..

[Petter Adsen]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:16:53 +0200
robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:

> Thanks
> On 24.04.2015 08:52, Peter Fodrek wrote:
> > V Piatok, 24. apríl 2015 o 08:09 +0200, robert rottermann
> > napísal(a):
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I tried to upgrade to the newest ubuntu version.
> >> The upgrade process stopped in the middle.
> >> Now after rebooting the computer an attempt to do any cleanup or
> >> upgrade results in the following:
> >> what can I do?
> > first
> >
> > sudo dpkg --configure -a
> >
> > after it you may try
> >
> > sudo apt-get update &&sudo apt-get upgrade
> >
> > if it fails
> >
> > then
> >   sudo apt-get remove  update-notifier-common
> >
> >   sudo apt-get remove  update-notifier
> >
> >    sudo apt-get remove  ubuntu-desktop
> >
> > sudo apt-get update &&sudo apt-get upgrade
> >
> >   sudo apt-get install  update-notifier-common
> >
> >   sudo apt-get install  update-notifier
> >
> >    sudo apt-get install  ubuntu-desktop
> >
> >
> >
> this did not work either..
> Ithe found out, that
> 
> /usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> 
> was empty.
> 
> after I did the following:
> 
>   ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian
>   ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/char
>   ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chardet
>   ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/six.py
> 
> 
> I could do apt update && apt upgrade
> 
> but now I still have a messed up installation.
> Especially my python is probably not correctly installed at all
> 
> any more ideas?

As I said earlier in this thread, the simplest way out of this might be
a reinstall.

If that is not an option, you can try to determine what packages are
problematic, and try "apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>". Along
with "--fix-broken", those are your best options for recovering what
you can.

Petter

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