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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