Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

Maurits van Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
> 
>>Hmm... maybe I just fixed it.  I uninstalled the 'at' package, and
>>apt-get no longer complains.
> 
> 
> You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to
> work normally.  On my sarge system 'at' and 'apt-get' work perfectly
> happy together.  'at' is an important package according to apt-cache:
> 
> $ apt-cache show at
> Package: at
> Priority: important
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 204
> Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 3.1.8-11
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), mail-transport-agent
> Filename: pool/main/a/at/at_3.1.8-11_i386.deb
> Size: 37918
> MD5sum: b5cc860f93a0f25e71d92dad23988c12
> Description: Delayed job execution and batch processing
>  At and batch read shell commands from standard input
>  storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the
>  future.
>  .
>  Use
>   at    to run the job at a specified time
>   batch to run the job when system load levels permit
> 
> 
> Of course when at makes your apt system unstable its priority gets
> considerably lower. ;-)
> 
> 'at' is depended on by the following packages:
> 
> maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/tmp$ apt-cache rdepends at
> at
> Reverse Depends:
>   usermin-at
>   mirror
>   lsb-core
>   gato
> 
> Most important at first glance seems to be lsb-core.  From apt-cache
> show lsb-core:
> 
>  The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
>  core system that third-party applications written for Linux can
>  depend upon.
> 
> Okay, I don't have that one installed apparently; I'll go do that
> now. ;-)
> 

I reinstalled.  Previously problems are gone.

Thanks for replying.
Eric P