On Thursday 27 of July 2017 00:12:42 dep wrote:
greetings . . .
i've about concluded that i absolutely must upgrade my linux/tde
install. i'm currently running 14.04 atop ubuntu 1204-LTS, which is at
its end. hypothetically i should be able to do use ubuntu's system
upgrade tool and all would be well in moving me from 1204 to 1404; i
would not have to reinstall everything from scratch. but no. it throws
this error: [quote]
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
[/quote]
looking in /var/log/dist-upgrade, i find this error:
[quote
ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'kubuntu-desktop-trinity' is
marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.'
[/quote]
for some reason i must have added it to that blacklist, but truth be
known i do not remember having done so or even the existence of such a
blacklist, never mind how to add or delete something to or from it.
so, am wondering if there is a way around this that wouldn't (as it
appears would happen here anyway) nuke my TDE install.
am i missing something obvious? do i want to d/l and install a TDE
image and, if so, can i do an upgrade (rather than wipe and reinstall)
from that?
thanks in advance
Hi dep,
I always strictly avoided the Ubuntu tool because one of the steps it
performs is to disable all external apt sources. But this step is a very
good reason for causing conflicts during the dist-upgrade.
Instead, I use the classic Debian way == change the distribution name in
all apt sources lists and then the common procedure:
apt-get udpate
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get clean
apt-get autoremove
Cheers
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Slávek