problems upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04

[Tom H]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:21 AM, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-cache policy gcc-5-base
> [sudo] password for joep:
> gcc-5-base:
>   Installed: 5.4.1-2ubuntu1~14.04
>   Candidate: 5.4.1-2ubuntu1~14.04
>   Version table:
>  *** 5.4.1-2ubuntu1~14.04 100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2 500
>         500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64
> Packages
>         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64
> Packages
>      5.3.1-14ubuntu2 500
>         500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

How about "apt-cache policy gcc-5"?