On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 01:33:30PM -0000, LukeKendall wrote: > I installed the .deb for gnome-inform7 from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-inform7/ - although I can't see > anything that says it is for a specific Debian/Ubuntu release. Could > that have been produced (a year ago) for a Xenial release?
No, it could not have been. Furthermore, installing a package with dpkg would not cause changes to your system config to cause it to pull from xenial instead of trusty. > Other than that, all I did was ask Synaptic to mark all installed > packages that had updates available, and then to install them. I > certainly didn't poke about in the guts and do anything weird. > Here are the exact commands I used: > # dpkg -i gnome-inform7_6L38-0ubuntu1_i386.deb > # apt-get update > # apt-get check > # apt-get install empathy > # apt-get install libqt5webkit5-qmlwebkitplugin > # apt-get -f install > # synaptic > # apt-get install synaptic > # apt-get -f install This implies that at some point prior to this, you had updated the config to pull from xenial but had not applied the upgrade to xenial. > From what people have said here, it sounds like Xenial is a later > release than Trusty, and somehow my Ubuntu 14.04 started installing > packages from Xenial, is that it? Certainly, that was not my intention. Yes, that's correct. Xenial /will be/ 16.04, but it has not been released yet. > Things seems to be largely okay (though Samba has begun segfaulting). I > certainly didn't force any updates, AFAIK, and saw no warnings about > anything I was doing as being not recommended, so I'm still a bit confused > about > a) Just what started the problem > b) How dangerous a situation I'm in now, and > c) What I should do to try to recover. I don't know any reliable way to recover from this without a full reinstall of Ubuntu 14.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1531070 Title: package plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_plymouth.py', which is also in package libplymouth2:amd64 0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1531070/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
