upgrade problem

[Ric Moore]

On 10/18/2013 07:34 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> 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:
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/ The site will give you a short link to insert
>> into your reply.)
>>
>>
> 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.

trouble shooting with a shotgun. Liam got in the killing one! :) Ric



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