On Thursday 17 May 2007 09:06, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old > > one by changing etch references to lenny. > > > > My current sources.list > > > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > > deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > > > > When I do, "aptitude upgrade" > > > > debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... Done > > Reading extended state information > > Initializing package states... Done > > Reading task descriptions... Done > > Building tag database... Done > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > > mkisofs > > The following packages have been kept back: > > libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc > > openoffice.org-core > > openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > > > <snip> > > > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > > checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj > > libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect > > mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager > > 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > > Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y > > Writing extended state information... Error! > > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. > > This might mean you need to manually fix this package. > > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? > > > > I'm not sure how to continue from here? > > > > Thanks! > > Do you recall any file that you manually removed or any thing that > happended to your system that might be related to this error? > Wait, did you do this as 'root'? You need to be root.
I have done nothing to the system without aptitude except for installing Eclipse and the Java runtime. Yes, I did try this as root. I should have included that in my original post. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
