upgrade to natty failed

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM, James Tappin <sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:51 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> N> On 04/28/2011 11:47 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> N> > I got a desktop notification to upgrade to natty and I followed up
> N> > with that. But it failed.
> N> >
> N> > I got this attached error message.
> N> >
> N> > Any suggestion on how to move forward?
> N>
> N> Try (in order):
> N>
> N> $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

so sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ?

> N> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
> N> $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade here as well?

> N> $ sudo apt-get install -f
> N>
>
> I think dist-upgrade rather than upgrade should be used here as
> "upgrade" will not install new dependencies nor remove obsolete
> packages.
>
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