Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > > package from that 'half-configured' state. > > Dpkg usually can. > -- > John Hasler > Unfo

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > package from that 'half-configured' state. Dpkg usually can. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Frank McCormick: > Sjoerd Hiemstra: > > Frank McCormick: > > > [...] state...strangely enough it's in a file called "status" :) > > > I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, > > > removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resaved. Problem > > > gone...aptitude is now happy and wil

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Frank McCormick: > > Andrew Sackville-West: > > > Frank McCormick: > > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > > state...strangely enough it's in a file called "status"

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Frank McCormick: > Andrew Sackville-West: > > Frank McCormick: > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > I don't think you're there yet... that's a pretty drastic measure. > > Well I reconsidered:) I googled until I found what I was looking for > exactly where apt keeps the

[SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:44:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package > > > > > and > > > [...

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > > [...]

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:17:05 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > r...@squeeze:~# aptitude reinstall adobe-flashplugin > [.] > The following packages will be REINSTALLED: > adobe-flashplugin > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove > and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B o

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > [...] > > > > This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now: > > > > > > sque

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and [...] > > This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now: > > > squeeze:/home/frank# aptitude dist-upgrade [...] > The following packages will be upgrad

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) > won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from > Adobe Replying to myself here -- This is what hap

Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from Adobe and now I guess because it's newer than the current pac