On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:37:44PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > > Johannes, when I log in as root via tty1 and run aptitude I get the output > pasted below. > > Here is the output copied from aptitude" > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- > image-2.6.18-5-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: >
this is all it says? please give us the *complete* output from the command you've entered to the very end. and do it from the command line interface, not the aptitude gui. IOW, just type aptitude install <package> or aptitude upgrade or whatever it is you are trying to do. thanks A
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