> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:52:29 -0400 <bro...@historicalmaterialism.info> wrote:
>
> With a brand new installation of squeeze, one of my first steps was to
> do a package update and a safe-upgrade. The former went well, but when
> I tried to upgrade the 22 updated packages, the upgrade proceedure
> terminated with:
>
> Reading changelogs ... done
>
> apt (0.7.26~exp3) experimental; urgency=low
> * apt-ftparchive now reads the standard configuration files in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
>
> and after some more lines ends with
>
> /tmp/tmpXXXX (END)
>
> and it takes a Ctl-C to break back to a command prompt. The upgrade
> process is terminated and nothing was actually upgraded. I can repeat,
> and each time only the tmp file id number changes, but the 22 packages
> are still not upgraded.
>
> A google search leaves me unclear, but it seems that some experimental
> features of apt are being merged into squeeze.
>
> Should I just ignore this until such time as a clean upgrade becomes
> possible? Is there a work-around?
>
Yes! Push the 'q' key instead of ctrl-c or perhaps ':' then 'q', I forget if
that update placed you in less or vi....
Hope that helps.
-M
