'Partial Upgrade'

**muteXe** · June 13th, 2011

Morning chaps.
What exactly is a 'partial upgrade', and why is my machine telling me i should run one?
If it goes away and installs some software updates, then cool. However, I don't want to come back to my pc and find out it's "upgraded" from my 10.04 to some newer version.
Btw, it's only started prompting this about 2 weeks ago.

Cheers,

mute

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · June 13th, 2011

partial upgrade is not a disrto upgrade just means some updates can't be installed for whatever reason
if it is the kernel it is not upgradeing my laptop is doing the same thing as you can see i have not gotten aywhere i should just copy my desktop's install to it

**muteXe** · June 13th, 2011

ahhh i see.
Thanks mate, i'll give it a go and see what happens.

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · June 13th, 2011

i have had it result in broken packages but i thank that was during the time 9.04

**Frogs Hair** · June 13th, 2011

Be cautious with partial upgrades , they cause problems with synaptic until the rest of the upgrade becomes available .

**jerome1232** · June 13th, 2011

In my experience doing apt-get dist-upgrade will get the full upgrade.

note dist-upgrade does NOT upgrade to a new release, it stays with your current one.

**mbocciab** · September 13th, 2011

I'm having the same issue ... Update manager is asking for partial upgrade!
It's not updating:
linux-generic kernel packages
sound-juicer
wine

What can I do to solve the problem?