If give to you nothing, try dpkg --pending --configure Or try to do update by dselect dselect Update
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it gives me nothing. Cheers, Saranjit. -----Original Message----- From: Alberto Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:54 PM To: Saran Cc: Michael P. Soulier; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: apt-get questions ????? Trie a simple command dpkg --configure -a Like dselect does.. On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_bi nary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files Tatooine:/home/saran# and here's the output on apt-get install lynx Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get install lynx Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: lynx: Depends: debconf E: Sorry, broken packages Tatooine:/home/saran# I tried the same for debconf, but no such luck. Any other way ? Cheers, Saranjit. -----Original Message----- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get questions ????? On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:49:25PM +0800, Saran wrote: > Hi there people, > > Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest > updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and > debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affected, > it'll probably take time to figure that out... when I need to use it, that > is. > > So the big question here is : How do I go about reinstalling these packages. > I prefer to use lynx to access websites rather than going in to X and > starting up a graphical browser to view the page. Furthermore, graphics > take more bandwidth and time to download. Wierd! That's rather scary actually. I hope someone is looking into what caused this. Run an "apt-get check" to check all of your packages' states. If these aren't working, it will hopefully report it. Otherwise, try reinstalling them. apt-get install lynx, etc. See what happens. Also, you say you're updating from slink. I'd recommend a full dist-upgrade to potato. That may solve all of these problems. Not that they should have happened, mind you. Something like this should never happen, IMHO, but unfortunately we live in the real world. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
