No updates or upgrades have successfully installed since 11.04. BUT, apparently SOME things have upgraded but not others. I've been getting the error msg. : UPDATES have been DOWNLOADED BUT NOT INSTALLED...CHECK YOUR CONNECTION...
I think there may have been an error long ago due to interruption in connection while downloading, and kept thinking it would correct itself during subsequent updates, but it has not done so. I am still at 11.04 and Now, I tried to do the completed upgrade again, from 11.04 to 11.10, so that I can then upgrade to 12.04. It did not work --downloaded all but did not all install. HOW CAN I FIX THE INSTALLATIONS AND GO FORWARD TO 12.04?
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.54-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 6 19:35:58 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: package liblocale-gettext-perl is already installed and configured
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package liblocale-gettext-perl is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-11-06 (0 days ago)
MANY ADDITIONAL ERROR MSG'S LOOK LIKE THIS:
e.g.:
"Could not install '/var/cache/
The upgrade will continue but the '/var/cache/
pre-dependency problem - not installing ncurses-bin"
--It seems like I may have tried to upgrade too far ahead at some point. I read only today that I can only upgrade to 12.04 from 10.04 or 11.10. I am still apparently at 11.04. Do I need to fix or re-install 11.04 before going any further? If so, how do I do that?
Could this all be a result of bad hardware, i.e., corrupt hard drive?
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