Just to let everybody know, I would like to say a huge thank you to Alan
Ball and popey and others who helped for helping me fix the errors that
I posted about earlier. It took going into the /var/lib/dpkg/status file
and deleting all mention of virtualbox. Now, I dont have any errors when
inst
On 06/03/11 19:11, John MM wrote:
Um, I gave you the lines you wanted, those are the exact lines between
the line numbers you asked for.
oh, thats funny, I was expecting it to have the entries for virtualbox in it
I am replying to you on IRC by the way . . .
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On 06/03/11 19:10, Alan Bell wrote:
Here is the pastebin dump of those lines you wanted, its long 2000
odd lines, which is why I posted it to pastebin. Hope it helops.
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/576535/
no help whatsoever unfortuntately as I was looking for the stuff at
about line 46,354
ender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:50:26
To: UK Ubuntu Talk
Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal,
I dont know what it is..
On 06/03/11 18:37, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> It has been said many times, if you don't k
On 06/03/11 17:33, John MM wrote:
I didnt understand much of what you said, sounds like you had a long
lunch though, hope it was a good one.
it was beans on toast
Here is the pastebin dump of those lines you wanted, its long 2000 odd
lines, which is why I posted it to pastebin. Hope it helo
On 06/03/11 18:50, John MM wrote:
See, I dont understand how you can say that about volunteers waiting
around, they dont wait around. I have never seen one of you wait
around since I first started using Ubuntu. I have spent the past 20
years running and volunterring on quite a few different f
On 06/03/11 18:37, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
It has been said many times, if you don't know what your doing, don't do it.
You can't expect volunteers to wait around all day just incase someone they
spoke to earlier hits another stumbling block. If you want that sort of
support, dig deep and
On 06/03/11 18:38, J Fernyhough wrote:
First, chill. Second, I was replying to Grant. Third, I assumed that
you had a basic knowledge of how Ubuntu works. If you need immediate
help you should use IRC; email by its very nature is non-realtime. If
you must know I was washing my car after lunch whi
On 6 March 2011 18:38, J Fernyhough wrote:
>
> $ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
> $ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
>
> $ gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status
> or
> $ sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status
> Find lines 46354 and 48216 and delete or edit the
On 6 March 2011 17:47, John MM wrote:
>
> And this is supposed to help me now how? You gave me an instruction then
> dissappeared, and it looks to me that you werent even going to help, your
> just pointing out what you do to the OP. Thanks I really appreciate you
> leaving me in lurch. I would su
-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal,
I dont know what it is..
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On 06/03/11 16:57, Alan Bell wrote:
nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available'
near line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216
On 06/03/11 17:27, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
> far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially
> it holds details of each package that's installed, and those
On 6 March 2011 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
> far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially
> it holds details of each package that's installed, and those that have
> been installed and removed (but
On 06/03/11 16:57, Alan Bell wrote:
nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available'
near line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216
nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near
line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216 package
'virtualbox-2.2':
error in V
On 06/03/11 14:24, John MM wrote:
On 06/03/11 13:11, Alan Bell wrote:
top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a
few minutes to get an answer!
Alan.
Thank you for the tip, but do have any thing more than that to offer?
I really appreciate the tip, but it would be he
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +
John MM wrote:
> On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and
> > (as far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it.
> > Essentially it holds details of each package that's installed, and
Hi john,
You should also have a backup here: /var/backups/dpkg.status.0
so the command to move it would be:
*sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status*
on my system this is only 3 days old (ie before I updated today)
Matt
On 6 March 2011 12:06, John MM wrote:
> On 06/03/11
On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially
it holds details of each package that's installed, and those that have
been installed and removed (but not purged),
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:34:28 +
John MM wrote:
> Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my
> /var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a
> worse error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say,
> I now have an error saying 'Install
Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my
/var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a worse
error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say, I now
have an error saying 'InstallArchives failed' with 141 updates in the
Update manaer,
On 06/03/11 13:11, Alan Bell wrote:
top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a
few minutes to get an answer!
Alan.
Thank you for the tip, but do have any thing more than that to offer? I
really appreciate the tip, but it would be helpful to get a little bit
more tha
top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a few
minutes to get an answer!
Alan.
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On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
>
> um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
>
$ sudo apt-get update
I tried updating, and found a load of updates via the update manager,
but it wont update now, I get this error
nstallArchives
On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
>
> um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
>
$ sudo apt-get update
ok, sorted, created file 'status' on Desktop, moved file to
/var/lib/dpkg/ then did sudo apt-get update, and I think its work
On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
$ sudo apt-get update
Tried that, and I get this
E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or
directory)
E: The package list
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
>
> um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
>
$ sudo apt-get update
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On 06/03/11 12:04, J Fernyhough wrote:
Alrighty then - delete /var/lib/dpkg/status ! It will get regenerated
when you update your sources again.
Jonatho
um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
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On 06/03/11 12:04, J Fernyhough wrote:
Alrighty then - delete /var/lib/dpkg/status ! It will get regenerated
when you update your sources again.
Jonathon
Brilliant, deleted that, I am getting more used to using the Terminal
and it worked.
Ok, will try see if that changed anything.
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On 6 March 2011 11:59, John MM wrote:
>
> Hi, thanks for your message, I checked in the software sources and that is
> not there. Its all showing Maverick, I can show you the list if needed,
> maybe there is something I am not seeing.
>
Alrighty then - delete /var/lib/dpkg/status ! It will get re
On 06/03/11 11:50, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 11:43, John MM wrote:
-- multiple snip--
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character
error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character
Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I get this each
On 6 March 2011 11:43, John MM wrote:
-- multiple snip--
>> error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character
>> error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character
>
> Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I get this each and every time I install
> somethin
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 43461 package
'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 45194 package
'virtualbox-2.2':
error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Ub
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