Re: Aptitude Error

2016-07-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:02:55 Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > > I am running v-8.4 and get the following error: > > > > E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > > an archive for it. > > > > This resulted from my bumbling

Re: Aptitude Error

2016-07-23 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > I am running v-8.4 and get the following error: > > E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > an archive for it. > > This resulted from my bumbling effort to remove virtualbox. > > What is the solution to

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-02 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: > >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau > wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H > was

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was >> >> heard to say: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:23:12PM +0200, James Stuckey was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > That's the problem -- you have no (active) "deb" lines for unstable, > > so apt doesn't know which packages are from it. > > The aptitude search ~Aunstable ap

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey < > jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > Did you mean to drop debian-user? > > > > > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Did you mean to drop debian-user? > > > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:29:55PM +0200, James Stuckey < > > jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > > > I have the n

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
All of these searches return nothing: stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable~i stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)' I know something must b

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > >> heard to say: > >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > You could find

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:37:24AM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > > Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote: > > $ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)' > > debian01:~# aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)' > > -bash: syntax error near unexpected

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was >> heard to say: >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system >> > > by >> > > apt-show

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau > was heard to say: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > > > heard to say: > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > > heard to say: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:58:19PM -0700, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: > > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of > > all > > packages from the $something repository

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable > > > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable"

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolut

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > apt-show-versions |  grep unstable > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" or "aptitude

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >>> >>> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >>> > On Friday 30 April 2010

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >> >> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> > > The unstable/si

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > > release w

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > apt-show-versions |  grep unstable Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >>  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mostly. > > If there is a version

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mos

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not testing, you will

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base > (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So > when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it > is trying to revert the gcc

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package "apt

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Try > > apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential > > If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >> I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". >> This means that the versions it had

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Kousik Maiti
Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > > Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to >> install these packages? >> >> > Yes, I did "aptit

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
> Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to > install these packages? > > Yes, I did "aptitude safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" and then "aptitude full-upgrade". I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". This means that the versions

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey wrote: > Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? > > r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts > build-essential > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extende

Re: aptitude error message

2009-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:13, Rick Pasotto wrote: > For quite some time now I've been seeing the following lines when I > upgrade packages: > > database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. > Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, > 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't hijack threads] On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. > Writing extended state information... Error! > E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package > lib

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi all, > > I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. > > Writing extended state information... Error! > E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package >