Upgrading to 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:52:53 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
>Another typo. The "." before the "deb" is missing.

The OP should consider to learn using the terminal, since it makes
maintaining Linux easier.

Assuming in a directory are two files, e.g. "virtualbox-1234567890.deb"
and "virtualbox-foo.bar", then if we changed into this directory we
only need to type

  sudo dpkg --force-depends -i v

it's important that "v" comes after "-i", however, if we now push the
Tab-key, the auto-completion provides

  sudo dpkg --force-depends -i virtualbox-1234567890.deb

IOW it makes typos impossible. The OP could avoid typos by simply
copying and pasting the commands.

JFTR

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:01:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>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

I understand that this could be hard to understand by inexperienced
users, but I at least tried to explain the part with the download
directory. But perhaps the package even wasn't downloaded.

Regards,
Ralf