On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Brian<
ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 11:34:06 +0000, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote:
I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing
downloaded updates.
dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb containing
ncurses-base:
package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb
(--unpack):
unsupported dependency problem - not installing ncurses-base
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Have done an upgrade *and* a dist-upgrade? Please post the output of
dpkg -l | grep dpkg
I have done both upgrade and dist-upgrade and got the same type of
error.For dist-upgrade, the error is :-" Errors were encountered while
processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.11.3-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
The output of "dpkg -l | grep dpkg":-
client:/home/student# dpkg -l | grep dpkg
ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1
Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii dpkg 1.13.25
package maintenance system for Debian
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25
package building tools for Debian
ii type-handling 0.2.19
dpkg architecture generation script