On 01/02/2017 03:20 PM, Dave Dodge wrote: > I recently upgraded a machine directly from 14.04.5 to 16.10 and ran > into a lot of trouble along the way, ranging from dependency conflicts > to pre-script failures to a cat stepping on the reset button while I > was trying to fix things.
cat(1) needs a --nopaws option... > According to my notes, I eventually got it all the way through, mainly > by repeatedly forcing it every time it quit because of too many > errors: Mine never got that bad, fortunately. I did find this page http://askubuntu.com/questions/539235/how-to-remove-obsolete-packages-after-failed-release-upgrade-via-do-release-upgrade which looks like what I want (get rid of the old packages that would have been removed if the installer hadn't aborted). I just commented on that page: > [...] when I use dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}', it lists 342 > packages, including many that I use constantly (like aptitude, > biblatex, tidy, xchat) as well as lots of libs I've never heard of. I > guess I can always reinstall stuff I want, but is it likely that > trusting the 'rc' flags might result in an unusable system? so I'm asking the same here: what do the 'rc' flags really mean (ie on what criteria are they based) and can they be trusted? The actual list is below... ///Peter -- # dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}' aptitude biblatex css-mode dict emacs-goodies-el foomatic-filters gnus hplip html-helper-mode icedtea-netx-common kdepim-runtime kdepimlibs-kio-plugins kmail latex-sanskrit libaccounts-qt1:i386 libakonadi-calendar4 libakonadi-contact4 libakonadi-kabc4 libakonadi-kcal4 libakonadi-kde4 libakonadi-kmime4 libakonadi-notes4 libakonadi-socialutils4 libakonadiprotocolinternals1 libamd2.2.0 libass4:i386 libatkmm-1.6-1:i386 libaudclient2:i386 libaudcore1:i386 libavcodec53:i386 libavcodec54:i386 libavdevice53:i386 libavfilter3:i386 libavformat53:i386 libavformat54:i386 libavresample1:i386 libavutil51:i386 libavutil52:i386 libbaloocore4 libbaloofiles4 libbaloowidgets4 libbalooxapian4 libbinio1ldbl:i386 libboost-date-time1.53.0:i386 libboost-date-time1.54.0:i386 libboost-iostreams1.53.0:i386 libboost-iostreams1.54.0:i386 libboost-program-options1.53.0:i386 libboost-program-options1.54.0:i386 libboost-python1.53.0 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