damaged packages during upgrade Ubuntu
I have an Acer netbook in which I now have dual-booted XP and Ubuntu which is now up to kernel 2.6.32-42. During the last time I updated both OSs, the Ubuntu gave me a notice that the 12.0 version was now available. I tried to download and install said OS and it soon gave me notice of problems and tried a partial upgrade-failure. I tried more upgrading at later times, still no luck. The current install of Ubuntu works fine but any upgrading for the current system drops me into the 12.0 upgrade cycle. I put Ubuntu on just for playing around and have no needful data could be done. The main worry I have is that when I first put Ubuntu on a couple years ago, I could not access the XP partition to boot up and had to reinstall from scratch. Thankfully there was nothing important on XP and, when reinstalled, got a perfect bootup choice which has worked fine.
My question is: which would be simpler, trying to work through fixing the current Ubuntu or do a reinstall of the new OS? I also have disc image backups of the whole HDD I could revert back to (6 wk. old) but I would still face potentially the same problem when I try to upgrade the Ubuntu. I am a newbie in Ubuntu so anything using the command line would have to be step-by step. A fresh install worries me due to the boot problem stated above. What to do. Thanks.
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