RE: apt-get questions ?????
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it
gives me nothing.
Cheers,
Saranjit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Pereira [mailto:bash@ruralrj.com.br]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:54 PM
To: Saran
Cc: Michael P. Soulier; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: apt-get questions ?????
Trie a simple command
dpkg --configure -a
Like dselect does..
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote:
Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check
Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US
Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_bi
nary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
Tatooine:/home/saran#
and here's the output on apt-get install lynx
Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get install lynx
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
lynx: Depends: debconf
E: Sorry, broken packages
Tatooine:/home/saran#
I tried the same for debconf, but no such luck. Any other way ?
Cheers,
Saranjit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:msoulier@storm.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:27 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get questions ?????
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:49:25PM +0800, Saran wrote:
> Hi there people,
>
> Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest
> updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and
> debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affected,
> it'll probably take time to figure that out... when I need to use it, that
> is.
>
> So the big question here is : How do I go about reinstalling these
packages.
> I prefer to use lynx to access websites rather than going in to X and
> starting up a graphical browser to view the page. Furthermore, graphics
> take more bandwidth and time to download.
Wierd! That's rather scary actually. I hope someone is looking into what
caused this.
Run an "apt-get check" to check all of your packages' states. If these
aren't working, it will hopefully report it.
Otherwise, try reinstalling them.
apt-get install lynx, etc. See what happens.
Also, you say you're updating from slink. I'd recommend a full
dist-upgrade to potato. That may solve all of these problems. Not that they
should have happened, mind you. Something like this should never happen,
IMHO,
but unfortunately we live in the real world.
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
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