Ha! Excellent! I was very much concerned that any such mass-deletions on my part might cause an irreparable disagreement between the installed-version database and reality.
Many thanks. I will try it tonight, and if there are any further problems I will post again. Many thanks, Aniartia-san. Curt- -----Original Message----- From: Aniartia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 09:21 To: Howland, Curtis; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get problem On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote: > > Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese > > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental > > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it > > in the morning. > > > > However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than half > > of the packages did not download. dselect shows the packages as > > "dependency broken" or "to be upgraded" still, but when I try to > > restart the download, apt does not think there are any packages to > > > > download. I get the following error: > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > Correcting dependencies... Done > > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > > canna canna-shion chinput cjk-latex dialog expat freetype1-tools > > > imlib1 > > > kdelibs3-cups libcanna1g libexpat1 libkpathsea3 libpaperg libpth13 > > > libtabe-db libtabe0 libwww0 libxmltok1 perl-tk psutils rxvt > > > > rxvt-ml > > > > > tetex-base tetex-bin tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp > > > ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp unicon-im xa+cv xcin xcin2.3 xcingb > > > xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp xfonts-cmex-big5p > > > xfonts-intl-chinese > > > 50 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > > > upgraded. > > > 3 packages not fully installed or removed. > > > Need to get 0B/95.4MB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be > > > > used. > > > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > > Abort. > > > > So how do I tell apt that its database is broken, the .deb's have not > > been downloaded yet, and it should be "Need to get 95.4MB" of > > archives", not "0B/95.4MB"? By deleteing the contence of /var/cache/apt/archives but keep /var/cache/apt/archives/partial Ani
