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http://askubuntu.com – I tried to update my ubuntu software and java through update manager. However, after all about few hours, its do not have any progress also. The errors message shown "Software updates correct errors, eliminate security vulnerabilities and provide new features." I did try to update & upgrade it through terminal but this is the error that i Get Blockquote gms@gms-ThinkPad:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade && update Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: libgnome2-0 linux-generic-pae linux-h (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 11/05/2012

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I noticed my system acting weird today.

I cannot update NFS. Ever since I upgraded from 10.04 LTS the update manager shows two NFS packages but it won't let me click them.

What should I do?

I tried:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

But It didn't help, eg:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade...

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When I typed 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade' in terminal

'Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

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I get the following errors when trying to run the auto Update Manager

Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

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I am getting this problem, I just newly installed Ubuntu

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The last step leads to the following error-output:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed.

hello,

I'm trying to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 but nothing happens. the GUI "update manager" tells me that I might upgrade to 12.04 but when I click on the button nothing happens.

From shell this is what I see:

Quote:

sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...