upgrade problem

[John R. Sowden]

On 10/18/2013 02:19 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 18 October 2013 22:09, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> That should clean it all up.
> It might, but that is a little skeletal!
>
> John, I'd suggest the following steps.
>
> sudo apt-get purge
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
>
> If there are still errors after that, try:
>
> sudo apt-get install -f
>
> If it cannot complete, copy and paste the output and put it in your reply here.
>
> (If there's lots of it - pages - then put it here:
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>
>
well, that did it. when I ran purge, it came back and told me that there 
were files that were no longer needed, and to run autoremove. I did that 
also.  I thank you the two of you very much.

John