[xubuntu-users] Upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 got aborted

[Peter Flynn]

On 01/02/2017 03:20 PM, Dave Dodge wrote:
> I recently upgraded a machine directly from 14.04.5 to 16.10 and ran
> into a lot of trouble along the way, ranging from dependency conflicts
> to pre-script failures to a cat stepping on the reset button while I
> was trying to fix things.

cat(1) needs a --nopaws option...

> According to my notes, I eventually got it all the way through, mainly
> by repeatedly forcing it every time it quit because of too many
> errors:

Mine never got that bad, fortunately.

I did find this page
http://askubuntu.com/questions/539235/how-to-remove-obsolete-packages-after-failed-release-upgrade-via-do-release-upgrade
which looks like what I want (get rid of the old packages that would
have been removed if the installer hadn't aborted). I just commented on
that page:

> [...] when I use dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}', it lists 342
> packages, including many that I use constantly (like aptitude,
> biblatex, tidy, xchat) as well as lots of libs I've never heard of. I
> guess I can always reinstall stuff I want, but is it likely that
> trusting the 'rc' flags might result in an unusable system?

so I'm asking the same here: what do the 'rc' flags really mean (ie on
what criteria are they based) and can they be trusted? The actual list
is below...

///Peter
-- 
# dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}'
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css-mode
dict
emacs-goodies-el
foomatic-filters
gnus
hplip
html-helper-mode
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kmail
latex-sanskrit
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libakonadi-contact4
libakonadi-kabc4
libakonadi-kcal4
libakonadi-kde4
libakonadi-kmime4
libakonadi-notes4
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libavcodec54:i386
libavdevice53:i386
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libavformat53:i386
libavformat54:i386
libavresample1:i386
libavutil51:i386
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libboost-iostreams1.53.0:i386
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