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Re: Ubuntu update failure

From Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ubuntu update failure
Date 2016-10-14 13:20 +0000
Message-ID <e6c4caFu6raU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-10-14, Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> wrote:
> On 14/10/2016 12:38, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>> Dimbulb Rabbit babbled:
>> 
>>> On 13/10/2016 17:04, Desk Rabbit wrote:
>>>> So our dashboard announced that that an update was available
>>>> 14.04 --> 16.04
>>>> 
>>>> It failed with "The required dependency 'apt (>=
>>>> 1.0.1ubuntu2.13)' is not installed."
>>>> 
>>>> Here we go again, a simple job made difficult, thanks Desktop
>>>> Linux. It would be too simple to install the missing dependency
>>>> yourself wouldn't it?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> And there was me thinking that the assembled masses of Linux
>>> users would leap in with a solution. I guess they are all to busy
>>> earning their living on Windows systems.
>> 
>> It is a non-issue. For linux users. For trolling dimbulbs it is an
>> "issue". Because they have no idea what they are babbling about
>> 
>
> Here you go Klown, the non-issue documented by Linux users
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/777013/14-04-16-04-failed-apt-1-0-1ubuntu2-13-is-not-installed
>
> And here
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/814437/ubuntu-14-04-3-lts-16-04-failed-apt-1-0-1ubuntu2-13-is-not-installed
>
> And here
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/4w9iqp/update_from_14044_to_1604_fails_the_required/
>
> You really are a complete and utter Klown.

And to think I was defending Peter. Obviously whatever technical skills 
he had when he wrote the replacement BIOS have either become obsolete or 
his brain has become totally fried in the last 20 years thus rendering 
him useless as a technical advocate.

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Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-13 17:04 +0100
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-13 17:15 +0100
    Re: Ubuntu update failure "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-10-14 12:47 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:28 +0100
        Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:33 +0000
          Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:49 +0100
            Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:53 +0000
              Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 21:34 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-17 21:54 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 09:45 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-18 12:18 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure deplorable owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-10-18 13:06 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 14:29 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure deplorable owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-10-18 15:29 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 12:53 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 14:31 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-18 16:27 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-18 18:38 +0200
                Re: Ubuntu update failure chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:49 -0500
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-18 19:14 -0400
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-19 00:18 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:07 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:02 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 17:24 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-19 19:07 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:01 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 14:21 +0200
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 14:25 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-19 10:56 -0400
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-19 11:20 -0400
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 12:18 +0100
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-14 13:38 +0200
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 12:28 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:16 +0100
        Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:20 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 12:26 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu update failure fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-14 06:37 -0700
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:39 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:47 +0100
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Marti van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2016-10-17 00:01 +0200

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