Re: Aptitude hangs machine

[joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno@yahoo.com>]

--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> wrote:
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> 
> Because of this lack of success, I am unable to upgrade or
> install any 
> packages in this laptop.  Is there a way to get out of this
> catch-22 
> situation, and consequently upgrade tzdata successfully,
> and upgrade and 
> install other packages?
> 
> Ken Heard
> 

few options, though i have rarely had aptitude misbehave that badly on me, try running aptitude with the -f option, see if problem exists running the updates through apt-get, comment out the debian volitile line and do the rest of your installing (at least you can get the rest of your system set up.

jwlockhart

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