A friend asked me about this problem: I have tried and tried to do a dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade and just plain installing packages and apt (dpkg) will always fail on something called: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration This error happens once apt has given me the list of the packages it wants to change and starts to read the 1st. CD, once it gets to about [~40%] it just packes up. I did manage to do a "apt-get upgrade" but that only resulted in about 1/4 of the packages to be upgraded, I just wondered if this has something to do with dependencies and "apt-cache stats" gives me the following output: Total Package Names : 9853 (473k) Normal Packages: 7836 Pure Virtual Packages: 227 Single Virtual Packages: 307 Mixed Virtual Packages: 120 Missing: 1363 Total Distinct Versions: 8704 (418k) Total Dependencies: 43433 (1042k) Total Ver/File relations: 8862 (142k) Total Provides Mappings: 1688 (33.8k) Total Globbed Strings: 68 (620) Total Slack space: 37.3k Total Space Accounted for: 2147k Note the "Missing " part, that is the missing dependency files that are on the system. Have you got any ideas of what this error means, I have tried to search for a list of error messages but so far I can't find one. The CDs referenced are the unofficial woody CDs available from fsn.hu. I have no idea what to suggest for this problem so I am passing it along to this list. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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