Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On 28 Jan 2006 00:18:28 -0800 "Ron Hale-Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version > of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I > ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-28 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -i esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading esound-common

Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-27 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
Still no luck. I've discovered that "dpkg --configure -a" is my friend -- it seemed to uncork things a bit, but it only helped so much. A broken esound-common install still seems to be the crux of the problem, but the error messages I'm getting are a deep mystery. What am I doing wrong? I would be

apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-26 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I'm running a Knoppix 4.0 DVD distro installed to hard drive, and recently apt has refused to update or install _anything_. I seem to have some packages "halfway installed", or perhaps installed twice (as it appears in synaptic), notably esound-common (I was tweaking my sound packages a few weeks b

Re: testing .v. unstable .v. sarge (WAS Re: apt-get Failure)

2004-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > First of all, the sarge security autobuilders are still not yet > functional, which is the biggest thing holding back the release. But until we have released, those autobuilders would not be used for security updates for sarge anyway. Security fixes are currently reaching sar

Re: testing .v. unstable .v. sarge (WAS Re: apt-get Failure)

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:45:43PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:22:44PM -, michael wrote: > > I initially went for 'stable' (woody) but it was too out of date for my > > Ethernet card & hard drive. I've now installed 'testing' (sarge) and have > > followed recommendation

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-17 Thread Michael Spang
Brian Nelson wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +, michael wrote: Michael Spang wrote: Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be

Re: testing .v. unstable .v. sarge (WAS Re: apt-get Failure)

2004-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:22:44PM -, michael wrote: > Inspired by the above and not being able to find anything recent in the > mailing lists, may I ask people's views on which flavour (is that the > correct term?) of Debian out of testing & unstable is currently > recommended for a workstati

testing .v. unstable .v. sarge (WAS Re: apt-get Failure)

2004-11-17 Thread michael
nsure how & when!) from which I infer that there will soon be security updates for 'sarge'. Therefore, I think I'm as well staying with 'sarge' rather than moving to 'unstable' (sid), particularly in light of the above ''sed'' problem (as an

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:13:12 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Spang wrote: > so what do I do meantime? I'm in the middle of switching from stable to > unstable when it hit the `sed` issue & aborted the dist-upgrade. I guess > i have to wait for the bug-fix to get into unstable a

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +, michael wrote: > Michael Spang wrote: > > >Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: > > > >sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General > >commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info > > > >The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should b

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-17 Thread michael
Michael Spang wrote: Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way. Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-16 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
As Thomas previously suggested: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 bye Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been ke

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Spang
Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way. Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

apt-get Failure

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Tilley
The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt qt3-dev-tools The following packag

Re: apt-get failure

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bob Hilliard said: > Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing aspell (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: The package lists or status file could not be

apt-get failure

2003-01-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have a cron job that runs every morning that includes: apt-get -q update && apt-get -q -s dist-upgrade Today it produced the following error message: Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s) Reading Package Lists... E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing asp

apt-get failure

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen Hargrove
i hope someone can point me to a solution on this. i've been chasing it for days with no luck. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. any suggestions will be /greatly/ appreciated.

apt-get failure on perl

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i hope someone can point me to a solution on this. i've been chasing it for days with no luck. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. any suggestions will be /greatly/ appreciated.