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Mr.Mark

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Registered: 2016-02-03

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Update/Upgrade Issues

Hello,
           I'm having issues updating/upgrading. When I open the updater it says I have 288 critical updates. I download them and when I click install updates and I get a failure notification fault. I'll attach it below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
                  Mark

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

This is a bit of a bug that has been covered in the past as I recall. The number of updates visible is a bit of a red herring. If you wanted to use all of them then you can by doing

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports upgrade

or something along those lines - might be best not to.

I think it was fixed with Scorpion but cannot be sure.

Anyhoo - the answer is to disable backports in synaptic before running an update/upgrade and all will be well.

q4osteam

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Jessie-backports has been depreciated. We would recommend you to disable jessie-backports in sources.list and do manual update/upgrade. The upgrade procedure takes care about switching Q4OS repositories to the Jessie LTS.

Mr.Mark

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Can you explain how to disable that? I don’t want to make matters worse.

q4osteam

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Edit the "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/30_debian_backports.list" file as root, and prepend all lines beginning "deb" with the "#" character. It comments out these lines and disables the repositories. Next run in terminal:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-update

Mr.Mark

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

I apologize for all of the questions. Would I do that in Konsole or in Synaptic? I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with something of this nature.

q4osteam

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Launch "konsole" terminal from the Start menu and run a few commands:
$ sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list.d/30_debian_backports.list
prepend all lines beginning "deb" with the "#" character, so they will look like these:

#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free

Save changes and do system upgrade in the terminal:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

EDIT: fixed commands

Last edited by q4osteam (2019-07-06 19:15)

Mr.Mark

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

It didn’t exactly work in the way it was described in the instructions. The sudo apt-get dist-update command didn’t work. I did try sudo apt-get upgrade and it was updating in terminal for about 20 minutes. How can I tell what version of Q4OS is running now?

q4osteam

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Yes, you are right, the correct command should be "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" indeed. Anyway, you can run it again, and check the output, if all is upgraded:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Print the current Q4OS version:
$ get-q4os-version

EDIT: fixed commands

Last edited by q4osteam (2019-07-06 19:15)

Mr.Mark

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Re: Update/Upgrade Issues

Version says 1.8.10-n1 Is this the latest version?

Last edited by Mr.Mark (2019-07-07 13:22)