I think I'm making progress! I tried apt-get (as suggested by Dman and Karsten). I ran : apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade
After about two hours I lost my internet connection (not uncommon for me) and when I tried to get things going again I got the following messages: Could not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission denied) Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using it Is this fixable? What should I do if I lose the connection next time? Thanks, Peter Christensen (note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
