[xubuntu-users] Interrupted release upgrade, how to complete?

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On 14/05/16 09:45, Chris Green wrote:
> The cat (not in my good books!) jumped on the keyboard of my laptop
> while doing a do-release-upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04.
>
> It happened while downloading the files.
>
> I have run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' which ended up
> producing a working system but it hasn't upgraded completely.  It
> still has the 4.2.x kernelt for example.
>
> Running 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' again produces a huge
> list of "The following packages have been held back", presumably I
> need to get these to be installed as well to complete the upgrade.
> How do I do this?
>
apt-get dist-upgrade should deal with the held packages

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