On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:01:23 -0800 Nat Taylor <[email protected]> dijo:
>It's nice that they call it safe-upgrade, huh? Makes all that scary >stuff just a little bit less scary. >Your kernel was probably held back, huh? It updated stuff like >linux-image-3.*something-or-another*, didn't it? Mine was held back >till I tried aptitude recently. > >I guess a question would be, how did you get there? Have you been >performing regular updates with Xubuntu's update-manager? If so, why >wasn't it updating the stuff that aptitude did? Maybe run the >safe-upgrade every now and then to keep yourself from getting into a >similar pickle later... >I think an apt-get dist-upgrade would have done the same thing, in >retrospect.. I generally keep this computer up to date with Ubuntu's Update Manager, usually once a month Sunday morning before going to the Clinic. I do it then because I am going to shut down and restart anyway, plus when I restart it will be at the Clinic where I will have smart people available in case the update messed something up fatally. But this time I ran Update Manager just to see if it would show what might be wrong with the Flash stuff, and it said everything was up to date. After running the safe-upgrade I ran it again just for kicks, and this time it said the computer needed to be restarted (which I haven't done yet). I was surprised when your suggestions included installing aptitude. I never used it before, although I've long been aware of its existence and that many prefer it. But I always assumed that it was installed as part of the Ubuntu default packages. I guess not. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
