lost upgrades

[Jonesy]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:27:00 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 21:19, Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Earlier today 'Upgrade Manager' informed me that there were 15 packages to
>> upgrade.
>>
>>     Security upgrades: involving several apt related packages. and
>>     Purposed upgrades: involving several kernel related packages.
>>
>> I've been postponing upgrading to 12.04 until after I've successfully
>> installed the nVidia driver I downloaded.
>>
>> After I accepted the installation of these 15 packages, I got (I now know)
>> the mistaken impression that 12.04 was being installed. I used 'Top' to kill
>> 'Upgrade Manager.' Now neither 'Upgrade Manager' nor 'Aptitude Package
>> Manager' will even find let alone install these upgrades.
>>
>> How can I remedy this problem?
>
> In a terminal try
> sudo apt-get update  &&   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Isn't there probably a lock-file that needs to be cleared?
I once had something similar with a power outage during an 
update/upgrade. 

Jonesy
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