Re: Unable to upgrade testing system
Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Sam Varghese wrote:
> > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for
> > the past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors:
> >
> > [oodles of errors]
> >
> > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I have always found aptitude extraordinarily good at resolving such
> problems. It will upgrade what it can, stop, and when asked to upgrade
> again, will often complete the process. Under the hood, it may be
> doing exactly what Bob Proulx just suggested in his reply.
I can confirm that I have been able to fix these very problems using
aptitude. It was an install of jessie that had not been updated for
a month or two giving these errors, whereas another install of jessie
that had been updated regularly, did not have such problems.
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