On 02/19/2011 05:45 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
so I should do a dist-upgrade. But I already did that to get to squeeze.
> I thought I read the release notes& followed along all the way to the
> end. Of course it was midnight when I finished:)
You replied off-list. I assume that was acci
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:39:36 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> That's because you're doing an "upgrade" instead of a "dist-upgrade".
>> With an upgrade, apt is allowed to upgrade packages, but it is not
>> allowed to delete packages or install new ones. Those packag
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:29:39 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>> > virtualbox has been purged from my system, but that file: # ls -l
>>> > /var/lib/dpkg/available
>>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25094284 Feb 19 08:00
>>> > /var/lib/dpkg/available
>>> >
>>> > is rather large...
>>>
>> Try r
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:29:39 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote:
> that did it!! no more error!!!
> the only other question I have is, why are all these packages being held
> back??
> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
>
> virtualbox has been purged from my system, but that file: # ls -l
> /var/lib/dpkg/available
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25094284 Feb 19 08:00 /var/lib/dpkg/available
>
> is rather large...
Try running "dpkg --clear-avail".
that did it!! no more error!!!
the only other question
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