apt-get update/upgrade

[Michael Havens]

thanks for the advice....

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Snyder, Alexander <alex at misteralexander.com>
wrote:

> Instead of a semi-colon, try " && " (double ampersand).  That says "wait
> until the last command is done, and if it was successful, then do the next
> one" ... I've seen the semi-colon fail because its trying to do something
> else before the last has finished.
>
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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to upgrade my system:
>>
>>  $ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
>> <snip>
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   fglrx-updates linux-kernel-generic
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   fglrx-updates-dev
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0 B/40.2 kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 13.3 kB disk space will be freed.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>> (Reading database ... 261502 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to unpack .../fglrx-updates-dev_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb
>> ...
>> Unpacking fglrx-updates-dev (2:15.200-0ubuntu0.5) over
>> (2:13.350.1-0ubuntu2) ...
>> dpkg: error processing archive
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-updates-dev_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb
>> (--unpack):
>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so', which is also in package
>> fglrx-updates 2:13.350.1-0ubuntu2
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-updates-dev_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> I tried websearching the error and it pulled up a page that said to:
>>
>>  $ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all fglrx-amdcccle xvba-va-driver
>>
>> but that isn't quite right. So I tried to focus the search; I put quotes
>> around groups of phrases:
>>
>> "Preparing to unpack"
>> "Unpacking fglrx-updates-dev"
>> "dpkg: error processing archive" "(--unpack):"
>>  "trying to overwrite" "which is also in package fglrx"
>> "Errors were encountered while processing:"
>>
>> Do I need to do anything? If sp please tell me what to do.
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