There is a line on the output of your command that reads:
"197 additional updates are available with UA Infrastructure ESM"

It appears that you are running a very old very of your OS.

It's essentially saying that you need an Extended support contract in 
order to continue to get updates to your OS
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-14-04-esm-support

I also noticed that you have "apt list --upgradable", but it's spelled 
"upgradeable", so that's probably why you got the list of options 
instead of a list of upgradeable packages.

Brian Cluff

On 9/3/20 8:19 AM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> So I ran: sudo apt dist-upgrade again and got this result:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> 197 additional updates are available with UA Infrastructure ESM.
> To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable
> See https://ubuntu.com/advantage or run: sudo ua status
>
> Then I ran sudo apt list --upgradable
> and got the long list of options that one sees when
> running sudo apt full-upgrade
>
> But I don't know which of those options I should try to use
> or how to use them (in what sequence).
>
>
> ---------------
>> I did the apt dist-upgrade and got these error messages:
>>
>> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 
>> 4.4.0-148-generic (x86_64)
>> Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxguest.ko
>> Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxsf.ko
>> Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxvideo.ko
>> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 
>> 4.4.0-148-generic (x86_64)
>>
>> I captured and could post the entire process,
>> but noticed these errors as the process scrolled by.
>>
>> And, after running all this, chrome still opens to
>> a blank or black screen but with the title bar showing
>> the page to which it opened.
>>
>> Everything was working fine before I did the first
>> regular update/upgrade yesterday. Bummer.
>
>> -------------------
>> 2009-02 Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss 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
>
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