Full upgrade request from Ubuntu updater

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 12:17:41 UTC 2021


On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 11:59, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:50:06AM +0000, REUBY Dianne via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > Apologies to those on the UK list who have already seen this - I posted there by mistake.
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which was pre-installed on my laptop when
> > I bought it last year. This week my updater gave me a window with this
> > command, asking of course for my password:
> >
> > /usr/bin/lubuntu-upgrader --cache-update --full-upgrade
> >
> > My settings are all updates, check daily, download and install security
> > automatically, display other updates immediately, Livepatch on.
> >
> > I needed to use the "Show apps" button today, which I rarely do, and saw
> > the full upgrade was still sitting there.
> >
> > What do I do with this? I don't want to do a full upgrade to Lubuntu, but
> > cancel closes it yet leaves it in my apps.
> >
> You probably do want to do a "full upgrade", it doesn't mean to
> upgrade to the next version, it means to sort out more complex
> dependency issues than a standard upgrade can manage.

That is assuming that full-upgrade for lubuntu-upgrader is the same as
for apt.  Hopefully it is.  I can't find any documentation for that
s/w, though I did not look for long.

Colin




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