Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[johnny]

 From and old newbie. I have only been using Linux (mostly Ubuntu) for 6 
or so years. To me you have way to many partitions and you would better 
off backing up your document , pictures, etc and doing a fresh install. 
I have found out that went you try to make and OS (DOS, Windows 3 to 7 
and Linus do something that it says it don't want to do you better take 
a long hard look at what you are doing. I have forced Ubuntu  64 bit to 
run 32 bit stuff sometimes it works and sometimes not. So I have been a 
back up nut for 25+ years when I do stuff. Plus I have  never been and 
upgrade person. I think even if you find enough room to upgrade you will 
more than likely have other weird problems. In the time this has been 
talked about I could have done a fresh install with the programs I like 
and use 4 or 5 times. Just and old man talking and have learned some 
times it better to start over than fix some things on a PC. Since DOS I 
have aways hated working on PC that people that stored files every 
where. I worked for IBM for 30 years when the PC first came out. My 
father started  on mainframes in 56 then we just had terminals.
Good Luck and God Bless Johnny333 68+++

On 04/29/2014 05:50 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2014 4:39 PM, "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net 
> <mailto:kassube at gmx.net>> wrote:
> >
> > William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > > On Apr 29, 2014 4:20 PM, "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net 
> <mailto:kassube at gmx.net>> wrote:
> > > > W Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 22:45 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > > > > sudo apt-get remove --purge
> > > > > > linux-image-2.6.32-{{24..35},37,41}-generic
> > > > > > And probably you also have the headers for those kernels which
> > > > > > you
> > > > > > may also remove:
> > > > > > sudo apt-get remove --purge
> > > > > > linux-headers-2.6.32-{{24..35},37,41}-generic
> >
> > > > > This is inefficient. Why do you have to invoke apt-get more than
> > > > > once?>
> > > > Yes, it may be inefficient, but what's the problem? Those two
> > > > commands each fit on a single line which makes it safer for copy &
> > > > paste IMHO.
> >
> > > Uh, the problem is that it is inefficient, and performs steps that you
> > > don't need to repeat with a tiny amount of knowledge of shell
> > > scripting. I'm all for volunteer teaching, but try not to pass on bad
> > > habits.
> >
> > I really don't see a problem invoking apt-get twice instead of once. Why
> > should I make it more complicated than necessary? I don't think that
> > would be helpful. I'm trying to help solving a problem - I don't need to
> > demonstrate my shell scripting skills ...
> >
> >
> > Nils
>
> A) This isn't rocket science.
> B) Your solution may not remove all the cruft.
>
>
>

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