Questions tagged [dist-upgrade]
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Prevent package upgrade with `apt`
I'm maintaining a Debian package for which we don't currently support upgrades. This means that upgrading this package will result in a broken installation due to configuration files not being ...
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New Lenovo laptop ships with non-upgradeable Ubuntu 22.04
Just received a brand new Lenovo laptop ordered with Ubuntu installed. I assumed it would be the latest but it isn't. It's 22.04. I tried to upgrade it via the command line but was stopped by
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distro-info-data package outdated but some unattended upgrades are taking place
I am noticing the following entry in my /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
WARNING Could not figure out development release: Distribution data outdated. Please check for an update ...
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Debian dist-upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie failed with multiple dependency issues
I followed the guide from this page https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade to upgrade my Debian distribution. Everything went well until the final full-upgrade and a dependency hell broke, as follows.
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Firefox isn't upgraded on Debian: its ESR has 1.5 years old, ensuring it being discarded. How to ask a global upgrade from Debian or Mozilla team?
On my Debian 12 system, installed by default with a Firefox browser managed by Debian in terms of apt updates and upgrades, I went on Slack web site and learned that my Firefox version wasn't ...
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Ubuntu upgraded to 24.04 from 22.10, now getting grub message "Symbol ‘grub disk native sectors’ not found"
I have seen several questions about the same issue but they are either not answered or the answer is not relevant as it is about a different Linux variant
When performing the upgrade, towards the end ...
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Oracle Linux Kernel cannot be set after OS upgrade
we have two physical machines running Oracle Linux and I was tasked to upgrade them from OL 7.9 to 8.10.
I already did this on the 5 OL VMs we have and it worked fine. The upgrade on the first ...
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Leapp for Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 9 does not work
I am trying to Upgrade from Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8. It does not work at all. I tried to solve dependecies issue by myself. Now I am stucked. I have this error code:
Warning: Packages marked ...
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How Can I Bypass the Btrfs Check When Using Leapp to Upgrade from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux with UEK Kernel?
I'm attempting to upgrade a CentOS 7 system to Oracle Linux using the Leapp upgrade tool. My system uses Btrfs, and Leapp inhibits the upgrade because of this. However, the UEK kernel from Oracle ...
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Migrating from Debian 11 to 12, the sudo apt dist-upgrade finishes on a message: 'unknown directive "set_by_lua"' from nginx
I am upgrading a VM at work, from Debian 11 to 12.
I succeed up to the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, where it fails on:
Setting up nginx (1.22.1-9) ...
Job for nginx.service failed because the control ...
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Pass Enter key to dist-upgrade's prompt, running inside a GUI terminal on a remote machine, accessible henceforth only over SSH
I earlier had RDP access to a remote machine (a typical physical desktop PC) using which I launched a sudo apt dist-upgrade inside a GUI gnome-terminal. Since then I have lost the RDP connection and ...
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Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock'
I ran an apt-get upgrade and an apt-get dist-upgrade on a new update notified today for Debian 12.
The last one is failing with this message, and can see later that it involves NVidia driver (I use ...
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Does Linux Mint have a direct upgrade like Ubuntu
Does Linux Mint have a direct upgrade without a clean install with an USB?
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Upgrade from latest version
Let me first apologize if the question itself is… stupid. Can I upgrade from a latest version, in this case openSuse LEAP 15.5? How problematic it would be, or which would be the consequences?
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Huge number of packages are about to be deleted after Debian upgrade, how to check list in text mode?
I am about to upgrade from Debian 11 to 12. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F3 and entered text mode to ensure a smooth upgrade.
Update & Upgrade system
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
Edit /etc/apt/...
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