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

[Chris Green]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 09:54:18AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 09:51:22AM +0100, flocculant at gmx.co.uk wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> Of course!  Thank you, it now seems to be completing the upgrade OK.
> 
Yes, all up and running 16.04 with the right kernel etc. now.  :-)

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Chris Green