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.. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:35 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:54:55 -0800 > Nat Taylor <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I'd start with: > >sudo apt-get update > >sudo apt-get -f install > >sudo apt-get install aptitude > >sudo aptitude safe-upgrade > >sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer > > > >see if aptitude helps you out on those held packages... > > It worked. The safe-upgrade command took over ten minutes with screens > and screens full of really, really scary stuff. But it ended without > error, and afterward I was able to install the flashplugin-installer > without problems. And after restarting Firefox the Flash videos are now > working. > > Many thanks for the suggestions! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
