Kingdom 0 Posted ... Hi, i thought this may be a good of a place as any to ask this question, I have seen more experienced linux users here than on ubuntu forums. I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04.2 to 16.04.3 LTS. The issue is its trying to remove some important packages in the process. Can someone please tell me which packages need reinstalling to avoid issues. Below is the command results. ~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgradeReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneCalculating upgrade... DoneThe following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-desktop xorg xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-all-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-evdev-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-wacom-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-all-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-ati-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-qxl-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-vesa-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-vmware-hwe-16.04The following NEW packages will be installed: libxfont2The following packages will be upgraded: xserver-xorg-core-hwe-16.041 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 17 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.Need to get 1,437 kB of archives.After this operation, 5,407 kB disk space will be freed.Do you want to continue? [Y/n] nAbort. Anyone giving advice will know that "Y" and reboot will cause problems.Thank you for any assistance provided. Share this post Link to post
OpenSourcerer 952 Posted ... Have a look at Xenial release notes. The way of upgrading is described there. dist-upgrade does NOT upgrade a distribution, it only upgrades and removes obsolete packages. The rest will remain. Having packages from the next distro release does not mean you are using the newest version of said distro, there are still things packaging tools won't upgrade. do-release-upgrade seems to be a better way, but please look at its manpage before execution. man do-release-upgrade 1 OmniNegro reacted to this Hide OpenSourcerer's signature Hide all signatures » I am not an AirVPN team member. All opinions are my own and are not to be considered official. Only the AirVPN Staff account should be viewed as such. » The forums is a place where you can ask questions to the community. You are not entitled to guaranteed answer times. Answer quality may vary, too. If you need professional support, please create tickets. » If you're new, take some time to read LZ1's New User Guide to AirVPN. On questions, use the search function first. On errors, search for the error message instead. » If you choose to create a new thread, keep in mind that we don't know your setup. Give info about it. Never forget the OpenVPN logs or, for Eddie, the support file (Logs > lifebelt icon). » The community kindly asks you to not set up Tor exit relays when connected to AirVPN. Their IP addresses are subject to restrictions and these are relayed to all users of the affected servers. » Furthermore, I propose that your paranoia is to be destroyed. If you overdo privacy, chances are you will be unique amond the mass again. Share this post Link to post