Friday, January 7, 2022

[SOLVED] apt-get upgrade got aborted how to recover?

Issue

I'm afraid I made a kind of a booboo.

While performing an apt-get upgrade I accidentally logged out, thus aborting the upgrade midway. Now I can't restart the upgrade.

apt-get upgrade says there are no packages to upgrade...

apt-get update gives errors:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/main/binary-armel/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/binary-armel/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/non-free/binary-armel/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

[several more of these]

I tried these without results:

  • apt-get install -f
  • dpkg --configure -a
  • rm -vf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; rm -vf /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*; apt-get update

Solution

Use purge and autoremove to fully remove the installed packages, and try update/upgrade again.



Answered By - MDilmore
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