upgrade to natty failed

[Tom H]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Would "tasksel --install ubuntu-desktop" reinstall ubuntu-desktop?