apt-get problem
> Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese
> and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental
> updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it
> in the morning.
>
> However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than half
> of the packages did not download. dselect shows the packages as
> "dependency broken" or "to be upgraded" still, but when I try to
> restart the download, apt does not think there are any packages to
> download. I get the following error:
>
>
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > canna canna-shion chinput cjk-latex dialog expat freetype1-tools
> > imlib1
> > kdelibs3-cups libcanna1g libexpat1 libkpathsea3 libpaperg libpth13
> > libtabe-db libtabe0 libwww0 libxmltok1 perl-tk psutils rxvt
> rxvt-ml
> > tetex-base tetex-bin tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
> > ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp unicon-im xa+cv xcin xcin2.3 xcingb
> > xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp xfonts-cmex-big5p
> > xfonts-intl-chinese
> > 50 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> > upgraded.
> > 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/95.4MB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be
> used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > Abort.
>
> So how do I tell apt that its database is broken, the .deb's have not
> been downloaded yet, and it should be "Need to get 95.4MB" of
> archives", not "0B/95.4MB"?
>
> Curt-
>
> ---
> Curt Howland +81-3-5772-5832
> KVH Telecom Japan, Ltd. IDC Division
>
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