I'm running Sarge.
I'm having a problem upgrading one package..
I can install, remove, etc any pckage I want, but package is giving me
problems. This is what I see;
sudo aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/non-free Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/main Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/contrib Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/non-free Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/non-free Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/non-free Release
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/contrib Release
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://security.debian.org sarge/updates/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
[rodney@riverside rodney] sudo aptitude upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
checkinstall classpath discover emacs21 emacs21-common evolution
foomatic-gui gnome-session gnomemeeting gtkhtml3.0
kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins knotes ksim ksync
libgal2.0-common libgpgme-dev libgpgme6 libplplot9 libxmltv-perl
noatun-plugins quanta synaptic vim x-window-system xmltv xmltv-gui
xmltv-util
The following packages will be upgraded:
console-common
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/74.0kB of archives. After unpacking 115kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 118413 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.38 (using .../console-common_0.7.41_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb
localepurge: checking system for new locale ...
localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: processing man pages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
I've deleted the console*.deb numerous times thinking the download was
corrupt. I have plenty of drive space.
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Rodney D. Myers <rdmyers@MtPalomar.net>
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