problems upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04

[J.L. Blom]

On 29/09/16 13:27, Tom H wrote:
> 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
Tom, Ralf & Olli,
Thanks for your replies.Actually, Tom, your last suggestion "dpkg -P 
--force-all gcc-5-base" did the trick.
Not in the first try but then it was suggested to try "dpkg -f " and 
that suddenly removed many - apparently old - packages and installed new 
ones. The only package that gave a problem in the end was mysql-server 
but I seldom use it so I will simply remove mysql and install mariadb 
which I was already planning to do for a long time but most programs I 
use work with sql-light as I am not a data-cruncher (only in a former life).
I now will begin restarting the system and see what happens. I'll report 
what happens.
But for now: thanks to all that contributed to (hopefully) solving my 
problem.
Joep