upgrade solves other issues?

Tue Apr 8 10:38:09 UTC 2014

On 04/08/2014 03:07 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 April 2014 10:44, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> On 04/08/2014 12:45 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7 April 2014 21:11, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am having a problem whereby gcc and other low level programs cannot be
>>>> upgraded (even by root).  I have written about this before with varying
>>>> responses.  I do not want to (unless I _have_ to) remove Ubuntu from my
>>>> computer and "reinstall the operating system", as Microsoft says.  I will
>>>> not know what programs I have added, written, etc. over the years that
>>>> will
>>>> be lost.  Will upgrading to 14.04 solve this issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> That rather depends on what the problem you currently have is.  Remind
>>> us of the problem and someone may be able to answer.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also what directories will be left alone?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>
>> It started when I was noticing when I did Ubuntu updates, there were base
>> updates (binutils) that I was unable to select.  After a while of no luck, I
>> gave up (computer was working ok).
>
> Let's go back to square one, does
> sudo apt-get update
> show any errors? If so then post them.
> If not, what does
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> show?  Copy/paste it here.
>
> Colin
>
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>>
>> Then I tried to install Pure Basic.  It would not install.  It creates
>> assembler code (i think), then compiles it into an executable.  This would
>> not work because it uses gcc or an associated computer.  I went on this list
>> and this is the last message (most complete) that I got in response to
>> various executions I ran:
>>
>>
>> On 03/15/2014 05:26 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 14 March 2014 23:20, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>>> It seems that my problem has to do with "held" files (from synaptic) but
>>>> I
>>>> cannot determine which files are "held" so I can delete them.
>>>
>>> I Am aware that Synaptic was my own suggestion - but if you try
>>> from the shell with apt-get, then you can fairly easily copy-and-paste
>>> the errors here...
>>>
>> I went to the site you suggested.  It seems that others have had the same
>> issue, but it has not
>> been resolved.  It seems that this is where the Ubuntu staff should step in.
>> I appreciate your stepping
>> back into the confusion.  I am almost ready for the microsoft "reinstall the
>> operating system" solution.
>>
>> below is a synaptic error message after trying to "fix broken packages"
>>
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
>> by held packages.
>>
>> E: Unable to correct dependencies
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
>> by held packages.
>>
>> Below is an apt-get error message after running apt-get build-essential:
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   build-essential : Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>>                     Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> It seems that the program knows what messages are "held" but is not showing
>> them,
>> nor is it showing the command to see them (often done).
>>
>> If I try to delete gcc, it want to delete a lot of libraries that are
>> associated with gcc, and therefore,
>> without those libraries, about 100 valid programs will be deleted because if
>> dependencies.
>>
>> It seems like there is a old version of gcc on the computer which is causing
>> this chain of events.
>> I tried to manually remove gcc, but could not (as root, I did not have
>> permission).
>>
>> By the way, for several months, whenever an upgrade came along, the Ubuntu
>> base section
>> had binutils, and assembler listed but were unchecked.  It would not allow
>> me to check them.
>>
>> I am also getting hundreds of errors on boot each day, ever since I turned
>> on the display of the
>> initial programs.  The errors reference "fd 7" and bad directory or file
>> name.  The normal execution
>> of the system does not seem to be effected (libreoffice, thunderbird,
>> firefox, printing)
>> ============================================
>>
>> tia, John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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