Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:26:29PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > It is almost certainly trying to upgrade dpkg on top of itself while > > running. > > That's supported and quite OK. > > > The instructions at > > > > http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9 > > > > helped me. > > There's no indication so far that dpkg is completely broken; it's just > returning a non-zero exit code, which a perfectly functional dpkg may > well do. We need to see the full output before resorting to drastic > measures like this. >
The problem I was seeing was that I received the error everytime I ran "aptitude upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" and the program exited prematurely, not downgrading the 127 packages I was trying to change. Using the bigger hammer fixed. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
