I'm not sure how to fix my Ubuntu server. Please help

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I haven't touch my server for quite a while as it has been sitting in a hallway for about 5 years now. I haven't run the update command in at least a year. Now that I have It won't update. I have posted bellow the update and upgrade output bellow. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this issue. Please help.

Sudo apt-get update

Reading package lists... Done
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libxapian-dev'
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-min
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-min
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-dev'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-wayland'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-x11'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5sysguard-dev'
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-psr-http-message-implementation
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-psr-log-implementation
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-seclib
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-sabre-http
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-math-biginteger
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-min
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome'
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-math-biginteger
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-min
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
demdog@rebelweb:~$

Sudo apt-get upgrade

demdog@rebelweb:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
console-setup : Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed
console-setup-linux : Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed
dbus : Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed
initscripts : Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-50) but 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.3 is installed
keyboard-configuration : Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed
libncurses5 : Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1) but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is installed
util-linux : Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed
Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-59.1~) but 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.3 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
demdog@rebelweb:~$

System Information

login as: demdog
[email protected]'s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-92-generic i686)

System information as of Fri Sep 2 08:40:28 EDT 2016

System load: 1.1 Memory usage: 7% Processes: 73
Usage of /: 77.9% of 26.96GB Swap usage: 0% Users logged in: 0

Graph this data and manage this system at:
https://landscape.canonical.com/

Last login: Wed Aug 3 00:57:34 2016 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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i dont use linux for my main machine so im not wendell level neckbeard, but did you try this?
sudo apt-get upgrade?

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I have tried sudo apt-get upgrade. Sadly apt-get -f install continues to return the same errors

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Are you doing sudo apt update first? I've found that helps sometimes when package versions are out of whack.

Alternately
sudo apt install lsb-base libtinfo5 sysvinit-utils

Manually updating those packages, individually if necessary, might help move things forward.

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Also try updating apt itself via synaptic

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It could be that your ubuntu distro has simply reached it's EOL.
What release are you using?

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Yeah what version of Ubuntu is it? LTS releases have a lifespan of 5 years support.

You may have to upgrade to a newer LTS.

You can also try clearing your apt cache:

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Will update you to a newer version but be aware you may have breakage. Read your output!

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Any particular reason why you're running i686 (32 bit)?

Do you have any repositories or PPA:s that require newer "debian" repositories? Have you tried sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade? (this will force an update to your kernel if available in your repository, so take note if you have any software you've compiled yourself on your computer)

Edit: so basically what @Adobe_Flash_Player said.

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He could also use a USB installer to update with which may be less destructive. Hopefully he separated his home, www and root directories as partitions. Much easier to recover that way.

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Does this server have a desktop GUI or are you running just from the terminal?

It looks like you have broken dependencies

lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) but 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.1 is installed

This says to me you have lsb-base 6.1 installed but it wants version lsb-base 7

Enter sudo synaptic at the terminal and then search for lsb-base

Is it installed and at what version?

Same with

sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-50) but 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.3 is installed

It wants sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-50 but you have 2.88dsf-41

In the synaptic interface search for sysvinit-utils

Is it installed and at what version?

If you can use the synaptic console to upgrade these packages to the levels in the error.

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This is running from the terminal, I have tried the distro update a few times, i haven't been able to get it to work. Its an older machine on a x86 cpu. I can try a few other things but Its slow going,