System in a state where upgrade is impossible

[cmaurand2]

Hello,

I have a 14.04 server that I have kept up to date and is running the 4.4.0-64-generic (probably part of my problem.) As i normally do, I start aptitude, press "u" to update the package lists then press "U" to perform the upgrade and this time instead of giving me a list of package to upgrade or install, it gives me a list 34 packages to be removed because they are no longer used like libboost and apache and, you know, everything it takes to make a production webserver run. I messed something up somewhere. Do I need to move the data to another machine and then do a wipe and reload? What do you all need to see in order to help? The last thing I installed was open-vm-tools-dkms before that was a kernel upgrade.

Thanks in advance,
Curtis

[Bucky Ball]

Welcome. Does it also give you a list of packages that will be installed, possibly updated replacements for what it is about to remove?

Please run this in a terminal and post the output.


lsb_release -a

[cmaurand2]

Here is the output.


lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty


It gives me a list of packages that it wants to remove which is just about everything. It wants to upgrade a packages


libc6
libcups2
libgnutls26
linux-libc-dev
multiarch-support

Don't know why cups is even installed. I need to look at that some other time.

[cmaurand2]

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