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Forcing a Partial Upgrade

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http://askubuntu.com – I updated to 12.04 yesterday. While it was updating however it crashed. I restarted my computer and update manager asked to perform a Partial upgrade. This is not the first time this happened so I said yes. However the partial update also failed. I then had to leave so I turned the computer off, figuring that it'd ask me for another attempt. However upon opening update manager I don't have the option to do a partial update (or any update whatsoever). Some of my programs are acting up and crashing - so I assume its not updated completely (new Unity works, Hud works, just some things crash) I (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 04/27/2012 – Made popular on 04/27/2012

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