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> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:52:29 -0400 <brownh@historicalMaterialism.info> wrote: > > With a brand new installation of squeeze, one of my first steps was to > do a package update and a safe-upgrade. The former went well, but when > I tried to upgrade the 22 updated packages, the upgrade proceedure > terminated with: > > Reading changelogs ... done > > apt (0.7.26~exp3) experimental; urgency=low > * apt-ftparchive now reads the standard configuration files in > /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d > > and after some more lines ends with > > /tmp/tmpXXXX (END) > > and it takes a Ctl-C to break back to a command prompt. The upgrade > process is terminated and nothing was actually upgraded. I can repeat, > and each time only the tmp file id number changes, but the 22 packages > are still not upgraded. > > A google search leaves me unclear, but it seems that some experimental > features of apt are being merged into squeeze. > > Should I just ignore this until such time as a clean upgrade becomes > possible? Is there a work-around? > Yes! Push the 'q' key instead of ctrl-c or perhaps ':' then 'q', I forget if that update placed you in less or vi.... Hope that helps. -M |