Ubuntu Server 24.04.1 LTS fresh install errors in apt install and upgrade

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 15:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/01/2025 18:15, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> > $ sudo apt upgrade
> > $ sudo apt install some-package-name
> >
> > It might be a habit worth getting into.
>
> Why not `apt full-upgrade` ?
>
According to the apt man page:
       *full-upgrade (apt-get(8))*
           full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but will remove
currently installed packages if this is needed to upgrade the system as a
           whole.

           When a package is supplied as an argument, the package will be
installed prior to the upgrade action.

As you've recommended that, I presume that is what you do (including the
initial "sudo apt update" that I hopefully provided). So it should be safe
:)

So, would the better approach be:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt full-upgrade

My only update disaster occurred on upgrading a system from Ubuntu 22.04.x
to Ubuntu 24.04.1 when I chose to let the system ("Software Updater" aka
update-manager) uninstall obsolete packages. Not sure what, if anything,
went wrong. I took the opportunity to move that system to Xubuntu because
it only has 4GiB RAM.

HTH,


Ian

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