Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Wynona Stacy Lockwood]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem remains that I can not now update the system without
> updating all packages.

That's laughably false. NO ONE is forcing you to use any particular
tool in this way. You have options. Just off the top of my head, one
way to do this is, you could upgrade the packages by name, one at a
time, or all at once via the command line by explicitly specifying
them. Now one says you must use synaptic, which is deprecated anyway.
No one is forcing you to use apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.
Why not simply specify the packages you want to update via `sudo
apt-get install $FOO` where $FOO is a package, or a list of packages
separated by spaces?

See https://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

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Wynona Stacy Lockwood
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