Re: aptitude errors
I was able to fix the problem by:
aptitude reinstall nagios-plugins
On Tue, 2005-21-06 at 12:54 -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote:
>
> > I am unable to get aptitude to work.
> >
> > ===========================
> > root@nagios:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree
> > Reading extended state information
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done
> > ....
> > 2 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 74.1MB will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> > Writing extended state information... Error!
> > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the nagios-plugins package. This
> > might mean you need to manually fix this package.
> > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
> > ============================
> >
> > I am root.
> >
> > I ran aptitude update s
>
> Why not try using the apt-get program instead?
>
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Dean Montgomery
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