RE: apt-get problem
Ha! Excellent! I was very much concerned that any such mass-deletions on
my part might cause an irreparable disagreement between the
installed-version database and reality.
Many thanks. I will try it tonight, and if there are any further
problems I will post again.
Many thanks, Aniartia-san.
Curt-
-----Original Message-----
From: Aniartia [mailto:Linux@genasis.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 09:21
To: Howland, Curtis; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get problem
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote:
> > 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"?
By deleteing the contence of /var/cache/apt/archives but keep
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial
Ani
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