--- Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: > > > I am unable to get aptitude to work. > > > > =========================== > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information > > Initializing package states... Done > > Reading task descriptions... Done > > .... > > 2 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not > > upgraded. > > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 74.1MB will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > Writing extended state information... Error! > > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the nagios-plugins package. > This > > might mean you need to manually fix this package. > > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? > > ============================ > > > > I am root. > > > > I ran aptitude update s > > Why not try using the apt-get program instead? > I haven't followed the thread from the begining, so excuse me if I repeat anything already said. I love aptitude as an apt-get interface because it removes useless packages. For example, after the Gnome upgrade (2.10) it removed all of the gstreamer packages. I am not sure if I ever used them (I am a KDE user) but at least thats a few dozens of MBs freed ;). apt-get never does that. However, with aptitude, I got into some problems a while back. Some bugs I guess. So I switched to Synaptic. Very good graphical front-end. However, I run "aptitude upgrade" from time to time so that it would remove any useless packages left as Synaptic doesn't do a very good job at that. If that doesn't help, try and clear the apt cache "apt-get clean". HTH, ib __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
