On Saturday, 24 December 2016 12:44:42 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> His Chromium came from the Ubuntu package. After ensuring he was up to
Kubuntu 16.10.
> date using the command line and rebooting the problem went away. Is
> your Chromium from a package or installed directly? Have you done the
> normal
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -u
>
> rather than using some lying GUI? :-)
The lying GUI hasn't worked in Kubuntu for around 2 years. Lots of us
contributed to a bug report that identified that the tool couldn't count! It
would say that there were 10 packages to update and then present 50.
Sometimes it would offer 5 packages to update and there were none there.
This was reported to be fixed prior to 16.10, but when that version came out,
the whole thing had been rewritten (or so it seemed) and now it doesn't flag
updates at all.
In the meantime, I've been using:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
because I had assumed that dist-upgrade was for new versions of the distro
(and so do many others if the internet comments are parsed). I see that
reading the latest man page for apt-get, that it also does a better job of
sorting out dependancies.
Anyway, I ran your incantation and it fixed the problem with Chromium.
One thing, man apt-get doesn't list a -u here. What is it for?
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