On Thursday 27 of July 2017 00:12:42 dep wrote: > greetings . . . > > i've about concluded that i absolutely must upgrade my linux/tde > install. i'm currently running 14.04 atop ubuntu 1204-LTS, which is at > its end. hypothetically i should be able to do use ubuntu's system > upgrade tool and all would be well in moving me from 1204 to 1404; i > would not have to reinstall everything from scratch. but no. it throws > this error: [quote] > > Could not calculate the upgrade > > An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. > > This can be caused by: > * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu > * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu > * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu > > [/quote] > > looking in /var/log/dist-upgrade, i find this error: > > [quote > > ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'kubuntu-desktop-trinity' is > marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.' > > [/quote] > > for some reason i must have added it to that blacklist, but truth be > known i do not remember having done so or even the existence of such a > blacklist, never mind how to add or delete something to or from it. > > so, am wondering if there is a way around this that wouldn't (as it > appears would happen here anyway) nuke my TDE install. > > am i missing something obvious? do i want to d/l and install a TDE > image and, if so, can i do an upgrade (rather than wipe and reinstall) > from that? > > thanks in advance Hi dep, I always strictly avoided the Ubuntu tool because one of the steps it performs is to disable all external apt sources. But this step is a very good reason for causing conflicts during the dist-upgrade. Instead, I use the classic Debian way == change the distribution name in all apt sources lists and then the common procedure: apt-get udpate apt-get upgrade apt-get clean apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get clean apt-get autoremove Cheers -- Slávek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
