Upgrading to 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:56:54 +1000, Peter wrote:
>On 19/08/16 16:42, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 19 August 2016 at 03:48, Peter <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:  
>>> I then downloaded and installed
>>> virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64deb.  The
>>> installation failed.  
>>
>> How did it fail? What was the error message?
>>  
>It ran for about 20 seconds and then stopped. I was installing using
>the Ubuntu software installer.
>If it produced error messages I have no idea where to look for them.

Open a terminal.

Change to the download directory, by

  cd /path/to/download_directory

replace "/path/to/download_directory" by the real path.

Then run the commands mentioned here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-August/286991.html

If it shouldn't work, copy the commands you run and their output by
selecting it with the mouse as usual, then right-click and select copy
(don't use Ctrl+C), after that use the paste option, that doesn't wrap
lines. I'm not using Thunderbird, so I only could explain how to do
this with Claws and Evolution, the mailers I'm using. If Thunderbird
doesn't provide such an option, paste the output to an editor, save it
as a file and attach the file to an email or use http://pastebin.com/
or similar and post the link, but in no case send something unreadable
formatted to the mailing list.

Regards,
Ralf