Ubuntu

[Raymond House]

OK Steven, I'll get back to you with that, thanks

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb at canonical.com
> wrote:

> On 15-05-21 06:56 AM, Raymond House wrote:
> > Hi Steve, I do the upgrades the usual way through the software manager
> and the warnings I get during the files unpacking
> > process say that I should use a command that is (way too long to get
> down) to temporarily fix the problem, the speed at
> > which this going there is no way I could do that, besides I don't know
> how!
>
> It sounds like some packages got messed up at some point (eg. things
> installed from a third-party source not supported
> by Ubuntu, etc).  The first thing to try is usually to ask apt-get to try
> to fix itself.
>
> To do that, open a Terminal and type "sudo apt-get install -f" and hit
> return.  It will ask you for your password, then
> attempt to resolve or remove broken packages.  It will also post errors
> that you can highlight with the mouse and
> cut-and-paste into a mail message if you need more help.
>
> The "-f" passed to "apt-get" means "try to fix things up" and the
> "install" is just required because, well, because it
> is.  You need to run "apt-get" using "sudo" because you need elevated
> administrator privileges to write to your system
> configuration files.
>
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