problems upgrading dapper, common system utilities missing

SerfurJ · 01-27-2007, 03:53 PM

Can anyone here help me with this problem?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2069341

Thanks.

fragos · 01-28-2007, 05:42 PM

Upgrade is to move to a newer version of your distribution as in upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10. Update is to get the latest version of packages within a distribution, 6.06 in your case. You are using the tools for upgrade to do an update -- wrong. I already answered this on the Ubuntu forum. Ask the wrong question and you'll always get the wrong answer. I further recommend that you stick with Gnome for configuration changes. By going to the command line you've introduced problems. For installs stick with Synaptic and Ubuntu repositories.

SerfurJ · 01-28-2007, 06:09 PM

From the aptitude man page:

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       update
          Updates the list of available packages from the apt sources (this is
          equivalent to "apt-get update")

       upgrade
          Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version. Installed
          packages will not be removed unless they are unused (see the section
          "Managing Automatically Installed Packages" in the aptitude
          reference manual); packages which are not currently installed will
          not be installed.

          If a package cannot be upgraded without violating these constraints,
          it will be kept at its current version. Use the dist-upgrade command
          to upgrade these packages as well.

The problem ended up being a corrupted filesystem, probably caused by a bad memory module. I wouldn't have been able to fix the problem without "going to the command line".