Questions tagged [upgrade]
To upgrade is to replace a piece of hardware or software with a better, and usually newer, version or component.
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apt-get autoremove during Debian 13 upgrade removed packages I need - how to get them back?
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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Can't complete upgrade to Debian13 for plymouth & initramfs-tools due to no disk space left (on /boot?)
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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Is there a routine way to upgrade apps from ppas?
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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What's wrong with my attempt to upgrade virtualbox to "latest stable" version?
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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apt-get upgrade fails: a 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.40 package is missing from our jammy-updates pool. How can we catch it?
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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How to do AMD CPU microcode update (not BIOS update)?
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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suld-driver2-1.00.39hp script post-removal blocks apt full-upgrade
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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How to properly update amd64-microcode package in Debian Bookworm?
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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How to upgrade Debian Bookworm OpenSSH package(s) to be able to upgrade to Trixie via SSH without the risk of interruption?
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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Can't update CachyOS: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) with linux-firmware-nvidia
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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After upgrading my Debian 11 system, Cinnamon freezes or shows lines on screen
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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do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu 18.04 is blocked
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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Upgraded k8 worker node from ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. DNS resolution inside pods doesn’t work & pods keep crashing/restarting. openebs also crashed
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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What is the purpose of running `apt-get upgrade` then `full-upgrade` when upgrading to a new Debian release?
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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Arch Linux Live System Update?
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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