Brian ... When I tried to do sudo apt full-upgrade, I got this result:

t420: sudo apt full-upgrade
[sudo] password for joe:
apt
Usage: apt command [options]
        apt help command [options]

Commands:
autoclean       - Erase old downloaded archive files
autoremove      - Remove automatically all unused packages
build           - Build binary or source packages from sources
build-dep       - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
changelog       - View a package's changelog
check           - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
clean           - Erase downloaded archive files
contains        - List packages containing a file
content         - List files contained in a package
deb             - Install a .deb package
depends         - Show raw dependency information for a package
dist-upgrade    - Perform an upgrade, possibly installing and removing 
packages
download        - Download the .deb file for a package
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
held            - List all held packages
help            - Show help for a command
hold            - Hold a package
install         - Install/upgrade packages
policy          - Show policy settings
purge           - Remove packages and their configuration files
recommends      - List missing recommended packages for a particular 
package
rdepends        - Show reverse dependency information for a package
reinstall       - Download and (possibly) reinstall a currently 
installed package
remove          - Remove packages
search          - Search for a package by name and/or expression
show            - Display detailed information about a package
source          - Download source archives
sources         - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list with nano
unhold          - Unhold a package
update          - Download lists of new/upgradable packages
upgrade         - Perform a safe upgrade
version         - Show the installed version of a package
                         This apt has Super Cow Powers

So I tried this: sudo apt dist-upgrade

And it ran for a long time and showed a lot of action,
but afterword, chrome still has the same problem.



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2009-02 at 6:23 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> apt upgrade only does a partial upgrade on your system and if that's
> all you do, your system can get into a place where dependencies get
> out of wack and the system breaks.
> 
> instead do:
> apt full-upgrade
> or
> apt dist-upgrade
> They both do the exact same exact thing, except full upgrade is the
> new name for dist upgrade option becuase too many people only did
> upgrade because they were afraid that dist-upgrade would actually
> upgrade their distribution to the new version... it doesn't.  It just
> tells your system to upgrade all the packages, where plain old upgrade
> tells the system to only upgrade packages that don't require any
> additional packages to installed or uninstalled.... which can leave
> security problems on your system if the update requires additional
> packages to be installed.
> 
> If you've been doing only upgrade for a really long time; be prepared
> for some broken dependencies that wouldn't have happened if you had
> done dist-upgrades instead.... Hopefully apt's dependency calculator
> will just take care of it for you and all will be good with the world
> again.
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