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TheXed
Asked: 2010-12-07 18:58:27 +0800 CST

Upgrade manager wants me to do a partial upgrade

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So here is my story...

I was doing upgrades to ubuntu the other day, and the power went out right in the middle of the upgrade, so now when I try to do upgrades it keeps asking me if I want to do a partial upgrade. I have heard this is bad and should be avoided, I also know there is a way to fix this via the command line, but I can't remember how, nor can I find anything on the internet.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks alt text

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It looks like sudo dpkg --configure -a is the magical command.

    Here is the dpkg man page’s explanation of the --configure -a options:

    --configure package...|-a|--pending

    Configure a package which has been unpacked but not yet configured. If -a or --pending is given […], all unpacked but unconfigured packages are configured.

    […]

    Configuring consists of the following steps:

    1. Unpack the conffiles, and at the same time back up the old conffiles, so that they can be restored if something goes wrong.

    2. Run postinst script, if provided by the package.

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  2. I'd suggest trying this:

    sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

    Solved the issue for me, probably will work for you as well.

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  3. I had the same problem. What I did was, obtain the list of packages from sudo apt-get upgrade. In my case:

    Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

    Then I installed the "not upgraded" packages with sudo apt-get install linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic and problem solved.

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  4. partial upgrade means that something went wrong with an installation or update. I started receiving this partial upgrade prompt after a botched Mplayer media player installation. I removed the software and via the purge command got rid of everything associated with Mplayer media player. This also interfered with some plugins i had installed for gstreamer and VLC. I reinstalled what i had lost and the partial upgrade prompts quit showing up. I suggest you find out what happened especially with a recent installation of a PPA

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  5. you can try sudo apt-get update through this files will be updated. and then you can upgrade through terminal by typing sudo do-release-upgrade when it will ask Installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has finished, the process cannot be canceled. then press 'Y' thats all.

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