Re: I clicked “Continue the partial update” ; Now I have lots of packages to install and I don't want to

[Bret Busby]

On 04/10/2020, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/10/2020, Dorian VEGARA <dorian.vegara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> First of all, thank you for reading my mail :-) .
>>
>>
>> Due to a supposed problem in my Ubuntu 18's packages, I could not upgrade
>> to Ubuntu 20. Instead of checking what was going wrong with all the
>> packages problems, I solved one or two packages problems (I think) and
>> then, even if some problems were still present (I think), I wanted to
>> start
>> the upgrade to Ubuntu 20 (big mistake...!).
>>
>> The graphical upgrader (or CLI, I don't remember) told me that I was
>> going
>> to do a Partial Upgrade. I clicked on "Continue". Then, I stopped it.
>>
>> *I'm still on Ubuntu 18. So the partial upgrade isn't done I think.*
>>
>> *Now when I type: sudo apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade, I get:*
>>
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>
>> (lots of packages)
>>
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>
>> (lots of packages)
>>
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>
>> (lots of packages)
>>
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>
>> (lots of packages)
>>
>> 2009 upgraded, 377 newly installed, 104 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>> I think all these packages are related to my Partial Upgrade. *However I
>> want to cancel my Partial Upgrade. In other words, I don't want to see
>> all
>> these packages. What should I do?*
>> What I've already tried
>>
>> sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* but it didn't work...
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>> Best regards,
>>
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I am no expert, and, you probably know at least as much as me, if not
> more than me.
>
> With the circumstances you have described, and, with you being
> determined to not proceed with the upgrade - partial or otherwise, I
> suggest that the solution is a clean install;
> either a clean installation of the latest point version of 18.04,
> or, a clean installation of the latest point version of 20.04;
> or, waiting and doing a clean installation of 20.10, when it is released.
>
> I have two computers running 20.04, which they have had installed for
> a few months, and are kept reasonably updated, and my most powerful
> computer is running 16.04, which I regard as the most stable and
> superior version since it was released, and, which I will probably
> keep running for as long as possible.
>
> Oh, and, each installation that I have, is UbuntuMATE, as I prefer the
> Windows 95 like interface.
>

Oh, and, in case anyone takes offence at my alluding to the Windows 95
style interface that is my preference, I believe that the style, apart
from having been available in gnome2, was also the style of the fvwm
interface.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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