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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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openSUSE 15.6 sysctl pointing to itself
I have just run zypper up on a openSUSE 15.6 computer and the installation of the new kernel says dracut-install error: /sbin/sysctl is pointing to itself and indeed this symbolic link is a loop: king:...
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