upgrade to natty failed

[Alan Pope]

On 29 April 2011 00:00, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 03:15 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
> ...
>> I'd do
>>
>> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^
>
> He may already have it installed. It's just easier to;
> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
> If it's not installed, it will install it. If it is installed, then
> reinstalling should (hopefully) clean it up if there are issues.
>

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.

Cheers,
Al.