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To upgrade is to replace a piece of hardware or software with a better, and usually newer, version or component.

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To upgrade from Debian 12 with KDE to Debian 13, I did run sudo apt-get full-upgrade -o dir::cache::archives=dir and sudo apt-get --fix-broken install -o dir::cache::archives=dir but despite of ...
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The upgrade from Debian 12 with KDE to Debian 13 didn't complete successfully. It seems to be due to disk space problems that the upgrade process still doesn't make sure to avoid or manage. However, ...
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I am newish to Linux. Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 I understand that apt upgrade replaces apps with any newer versions which may be out there. But only apps which are being "package-managed", as ...
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I have Linux Mint 22.4. Apparently this is based on Ubuntu 24.04. Normally I would ask this question in the Linux Mint forum, which is usually very good. At the moment it is suffering from an ...
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I've received an Ubuntu 22.04.1 computer in an environment where packages come from an internal Artifactory repository only. I did an apt-get update / apt-get upgrade on it, with an /etc/apt/source....
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Yesterday, I updated my UEFI/BIOS to the latest version (about 11 days old only). Summary of my HW/OS: # hostnamectl | grep -v ' ID' Static hostname: rog-g713pi Pretty hostname: ASUS ROG Strix G17 ...
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During the upgrade from Debian Bookworm to Trixie (apt full-upgrade), I’m getting an error message that blocks the process. This seems to be related to a driver I had installed for a Samsung printer ...
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I have successfully upgraded my older UEFI amd64 Debian server to Bookworm. I am preparing for Trixie upgrade, but the following package just won't update: # apt list '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(...
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When reading up issues to be aware of for Trixie, specifically interrupted remote upgrades (SSH), caught my eye. I have one server I wanted to upgrade, to which I do have physical access, so this ...
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Whenever I try to update my system for the past few months, I get the following errors: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 ...
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Some weeks ago, I updated and upgraded my Debian 11 system. My desktop environment is Cinnamon. Now, very often, the entire desktop freezes or displays strange graphical artifacts (like lines or ...
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I’m trying to move my device from Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS to 20.04. The first sudo do-release-upgrade was interrupted when my Internet died. Ever since, re-running it stops with “Please install all ...
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We are facing the issue. Here I mentioned our setup. We have 5 clusters like application clustes, ingestion clusters, MySQL clusters, file server clusters. Each clusters working with 2 masters and ...
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The Debian Upgrade guide from the Debian Wiki, in two different places, says to run these commands: $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get full-upgrade What is the purpose of running both? Doesn't ...
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Is there a way to update the live system of Arch Linux? The reason I am asking this is because I absolutely need the newest version of archinstall, which currently is 3.0.8 and the current Arch ISO ...
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I have just run zypper up on a openSUSE 15.6 computer and the installation of the new kernel says dracut-install error: /sbin/sysctl is pointing to itself and indeed this symbolic link is a loop: king:...
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i did a search on google for "what version of linux uses theMediaTek 7902." The answer came back as: The MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E MT7902 wireless network adapter is not natively supported by the ...
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I'm maintaining a Debian package for which we don't currently support upgrades. This means that upgrading this package will result in a broken installation due to configuration files not being ...
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During a routine sudo pacman -Syu --needed involving about 50 packages, the upgrade exited early due to a "Less than 1 b/s transferred the last 10 seconds" error. Follwing that, I can no ...
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I am unsure why apps aren't upgraded to the latest version even after updating and upgrading from the terminal. For example, I have version 7-something of LibreOffice, but the LibreOffice website has ...
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After my recent upgrade attempt from 20 to 22 to 24 I got an installer error at the very end of the process (22 to 24) and now I'm left with several packages which were not configured normally. After ...
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I'm using Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) with Gnome desktop. Where can I find logs of package updates showing time of change and change of version for each package that was updated? I let the ...
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I just ran apt-get upgrade on my system, and as part of the installation (which includes many hundreds of packages), apt-listchanges brought up some text document. Unfortunately, I dismissed it before ...
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Per the title, I upgraded my desktop from Fedora 38->40. That part was successful. I was going to upgrade to Fedora 41, but new dependency errors appeared that seemed tied to sagemath, which I had ...
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Our IT suggests we upgrade the Ubuntu 16.04/20.04 VM to Ubuntu 22.04 since Ubuntu 20.04 will be EOS after April 2025. Because we use the VM to build the code and the package compatibility is important ...
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I have a k8 cluster based on Ubuntu 20.04 1 master and 3 worker nodes. I drained one of the worker node. Put kubectl,iptables, kubeadm, kubelet & containerd packages on hold. OS upgrade to 22.04, ...
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Suppose apt modifies or removes an executable, say a script file, of the package, while the executable is running. Can you rely the running executable will be intact so that the executable runs like ...
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After unlocking disk the usual verbiage changed and there was a message about downloading firmware. I want to find out what was going on so I tried dmsg - % sudo dmsg [ 0.000000] microcode: ...
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I am working with a Monte-Carlo based simulation program for particle physics and I am trying to understand some of the randomness I observe. The principle of this program is that it injects a ...
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I have embedded device with Linux (stored in EMMC). When i need to update Linux image (i have one .img file) i need to connect via serial terminal, edit boot_targets to start system from SD-card and ...
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I am currently going through the process of upgrading my Linux Mint 21.3 system to 22. The process is halted by a foreign package: When I press the fix button it loads Foreign Packages then returns ...
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I'm running into several upgrade issues: repo .. rpmfusion-nonfree-updates .. timed out, now disabled repo .. skype-stable .. timed out, now disabled However, the one I can't get past so far is ocaml-...
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I am noticing the following entry in my /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log WARNING Could not figure out development release: Distribution data outdated. Please check for an update ...
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Is it possible to make 1 IBMi (for example Development LPAR where the updates will be tested or YUM installation will be done by connecting to the internet) system as a key system where the update ...
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) A few days ago I replaced the motherboard and CPU in my desktop PC and to my surprise the internet doesn't work. When I issue ping command I get a error message about a failed attempt to translate a ...
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I followed the guide from this page https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade to upgrade my Debian distribution. Everything went well until the final full-upgrade and a dependency hell broke, as follows. $...
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To give some context, I try to verify the versions of two packages and compare them. If, for example, the server version is lower than its dependencies and not in the transaction being upgraded, I ...
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Problem 1: installed package libcurl-minimal-8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 conflicts with libcurl(x86-64) provided by libcurl-8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 from fedora - package dnf5-plugin-automatic-5.2.6.2-1.fc41....
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I upgraded from Debian11 to D12 and cat /etc/debian_version, KDE Info Center, lsb_release -a and all other ways to show the current Debian version show and showed Debian 12. The upgrade seems to have ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 two extra users appeared on my login screen: snap_daemon and snapd-range-524288-root It seems like this is an error of sorts and they are not supposed to be there. My &...
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I have a RockyLinux 9 server that was running MySQL 8.0.36 and used the keyring plugin (keyring_file.so) for at-rest encryption. We upgraded the database version to 8.4, which removed the keyring_file ...
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I've come across a puzzling problem after upgrading Linux Mint from version 21.3 to 22. This is a HUGE upgrade, that probably updates every single package on the system. The upgrade went well and took ...
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edit: I'm guessing its the new NVIDIA version 555 that rolled out yesterday, I reverted it back to 550 and I'll be testing it for full day to see if it solves this. it's Pop os 22.04 LTS, Gnome ...
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In the current testing debian distribution (13/trixie), I ends up with a /boot partition of 500Mo. The current kernel initrd file inside /boot being 250 Mo, I can't upgrade the kernel anymore. /dev/...
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I'm on KDE Neon and running sudo pkcon update, which is giving the following error: Fatal error: Error while running the transaction: E: Sub-process /usr/share/dpkg/scripts/steam-launcher.sh pre ...
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I've just switched from the Stable branch of Manjaro to Testing and when doing sudo pamac upgrade, I get this error message and have no idea what to do: Preparing... Synchronizing package databases......
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I have Debian bullseye 18:14:08 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Release: 11 Codename: bullseye But it ...
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I use Debian Sid, and this one package, Firefox, has an update with a grave bug found with apt-listbugs. I want to exclude that package from upgrading while upgrading everything else. There is a way ...
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I am upgrading a VM at work, from Debian 11 to 12. I succeed up to the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, where it fails on: Setting up nginx (1.22.1-9) ... Job for nginx.service failed because the control ...
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I just updated Jessie to Stretch now trying to move to Buster. /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free contrib deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates ...
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