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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Good morning Jaco, many thanks for your
      reply.<br>
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      By myriad selections I mean that if I open "Software and updates,"
      there are 5 options to select under Ubuntu Software," 31 under
      "Other Software" and another 4 under "Updates," totalling 41.  <br>
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      Kind regards,<br>
      <br>
      Jan<br>
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      On 15/09/2014 07:19, Jaco Stroebel wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">Good morning Jan, </p>
      <p dir="ltr">I am not sure with what you mean "myriad of
        selections".  In terms of upgrading, use the command line
        perhaps try </p>
      <p dir="ltr"> sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Dist-upgrade upgrades everything and the -f switch
        tells it to attempt to fix broken upgrades.  I included update
        because it's better to make sure you have the newest package
        lists. </p>
      <p dir="ltr">Regards, <br>
        Jaco </p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On 15 Sep 2014 07:10, "Jan Greeff" <<a
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all, is this a silly
            question or is there another reason why nobody is prepared
            to reply? <br>
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            My system is now doing partial upgrades, apparently there is
            already a problem somewhere with packages. <br>
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            Kind regards,<br>
            <br>
            Jan <br>
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                    <td>Ubuntu software and update centre</td>
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                    <td>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:36:02 +0200</td>
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                    <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From:
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                    <td>Jan Greeff <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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              <pre>Running on Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit desktop, I have Googled around quite a 
bit but cannot resolve this issue: there is a myriad of different 
selections under different tabs in the Software and Update Centre.

I have no idea which of these options must be selected and which not.

Can somebody please enlighten me on this one?

Many thanks,

Jan
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