On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >>> The following packages will be upgraded: >>> gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info >>> 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded. >>> Need to get 0B/2706kB of archives. After unpacking 1461kB will be used. >>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y >>> Writing extended state information... Error! >>> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might >>> mean you need to manually fix this package. >>> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? >> >> You used apt-get to break the desktop-base package behind aptitude's >> back and that seems to have confused aptitude. I would hope that this >> problem goes away once you have fixed the desktop-base package. >> > > Thanks again for letting me know that it was my mixing apt-get and aptitude > that probably screwed me up.
I don't know any reason that mixing apt-get and aptitude should cause problems, particularly this problem. This is usually a symptom of your package lists being out of sync in a weird way: it means that apt thought it could download this package, but when it went to actually download it no source was providing it. I expect you would get the same error with apt-get as with aptitude. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
