upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 9/10/14, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> J.L. Blom wrote:
>> !. When I click on installed and put wine in the search box, it shows
>> nothing.
>> 2 When I click on not-installed and put wine in the search box it
>> comes with a long list of programs to be removed:
>> colord, cuneiform, digikam, dolphin...,evince, gnome, etc.
>> It then says:
>> wine1.7 broken package (yes I did know!!) and when I click  under
>> edit: Broken packages, it says:
>> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
>> caused by held packages.
>> E: Unable to correct dependencies.
>
> Just one thought - maybe it has been suggested before: Have you tried
>
> sudo apt-get install -f
>
> already? It might fix the problem of held / broken packages.


Ok, more of my experiences are coming back from memory.. I will...
control my Fingertips on this one because I'm just coming out of the
woodworks publicly after all these years of using Debian.. I remain a
very "ill" (angry) little elf over this one.

Nils' suggestion is recommended across the Net and is one I tried
repeatedly in all 3 instances I experienced.. Didn't help.. At the end
of my third experience, I did it about 5, 10 times in a row, I was so
"ill" (aka a NOT happy camper) over it.

All 3 of my instances trace back to Update Manager.. My cognitive,
comprehension needs are for all things to be EXTREMELY simple.
Regarding Update Manager, that meant untoggling EVERYTHING except for
a very few repository CHOICES in its settings.

While updating, it became clear SOMEHOW that SOMETHING wasn't doing
what I chose. I went back into Update Manager and found the CHOICES I
had toggled *OFF*... had magically toggled themselves back *ON* BY
THEMSELVES....

I said uh-uhhh, oh no you don't. I then REMOVED those selections
COMPLETELY by highlighting each single one of MANY and clicking the
appropriate button. They became visually deleted off the screen, and I
presumed deleted out of the system..

The next update soon after the removal process started taking an
extremely unreasonable amount of time again.. Took a day and a half
over sporadic periods of time all day both days to update.
/var/lib/apt/lists??? 685 **MEGABYTES** large, all downloaded via
dialup, when it FINALLY completed updating.

I went back into Update Manager......

And the CHOICES I had COMPLETELY REMOVED/DELETED... were BACK... They
had repopulated themselves back into view AND had toggled themselves
*ON* AGAIN..

It happened multiple times all three times where I ended up in the
exact same Shoes as the OP here.. It was like the whole deal somehow
hijacked my system that if I deleted what appeared to be a user's
CHOICE, my system's only option was to become 100% inoperable before
it was over.. EACH TIME.

That's when I switched to all CLI for my package managing along with
ONLY following my CLI based package managers' developers' protocol for
maintaining operability.. In other words, no going behind my package
manager's back and deleting, say, files out of /var/lib/apt/lists.
Have NOT had anywhere near the currently discussed type of issue
since, and I'm making and breaking things all day long every day..

BEEMMV.. But everyone else's mileage may vary... :)

AND P.S. *MY* experience was: The one "highlight" I can say, if there
should be one, is that personal data is not lost in this particular
circumstance. It can easily be recovered from outside the affected
partition/hard drive, etc because it's not destroyed, just no longer
functions as a bootable unit (depending on one's approach to trying to
resolve it, that is).

Cindy

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Cindy-Sue Causey
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