problems upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was hoping that there'd be a different way but you're going to have
> to do what I would've done a while back if this were my system:
>
> dpkg -P --force-all gcc-5-base
>
> followed by updating your system to pull it back in and finishing your upgrade.

But please back up first just in case something goes wrong.