problems upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've just read a reply by Olli and what he seemed to be suggesting's a
better idea.

Download the 16.04 gcc-5-base .deb and run

dpkg -i --force-all gcc-5-base-<...>.deb