Upgrading to 16.04

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Fri Aug 19 14:38:20 UTC 2016


On Friday 19 August 2016 09:19:02 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:53:30 +1000, Peter wrote:
> >On 19/08/16 20:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> sudo apt update && sudo dpkg -i --force-depends
> >> virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64deb && sudo apt-get
> >> -f install
> >
> >I then ran the above command which stopped with the error:
> >sudo: dkpg: command not found.
>
>        ^^^^
>        ^^^^ The command is dpkg and it for sure _is_ installed.

But is it in your environments PATH?  I seem to detect in recent 
installs, a tendency for the default USER's PATH to not include "system" 
utilities.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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