Update to 20.04 failed

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> on Sat, 9 May 2020
09:03:19 +0200

Thanks to all that replied.  Everything appears to be OK at this point.


> Bob,
> 
> Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 07:39, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> a écrit :
> 
> > ** Reply to message from Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> on Sat, 09 May 2020 05:16:10 +0100
> >
> > > 08 May 2020  at 16:55, Bob wrote:
> > > Update to 20.04 failed (at least in part)
> > >
> > > Have you checked which version you have after the error 19.10 or 20.04?
> >
> > Yes, settings has "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"
> >
> >
> run the "sudo autoremove"
> and also do "sudo autoclean"

I am not short on storage but decided to run autoclean anyway.  It freed about
130 mb of storage.


> This will effectively remove leftover packages from the previous version
> (some packages get replaced by completely different things and are no more
> needed, when most actually just get upgraded to a more recent version).
> Autoclean will then delete the download .debs to free space  (if your
> machine is running low) - this is just a temp cache and can mostly be run
> safely. The only case it could be an issue is if there is a botched update,
> and then you have no network to redownload the package to redo the update.
> But if your network is running... just do it.
> 
> As I mentioned elsewhere, I have this brutal command for my updates:
> 
> 
> sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get -y
> autoremove && sudo apt-get -y autoclean
> 
> I run it regularly. Updates, cleans, and trims everything. :)
> 
> (Oh and you know what, the same runs fine on a raspberry pi too!)
> 
> Gilles

-- 
Robert Blair


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