solved this now. So simple in the end, simply removing the _'s from
the version field in /var/lib/dpkg/status fixed it.
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/var/lib/available seems to be empty I noticed.
Removing virtualbox-2.1 from
/var/lib/dpkg/status doesn't make a difference. It seems it is a bug in
virtualbox-2.1, f
On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
>>
>> dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
>
> [...]
>
>> Results in i
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote:
> hi
>
> have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
>
> dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
[...]
> Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system.
> Anyone come
On 01/27/2011 08:13 AM, Kelly Harding wrote:
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
exim4-config.postinst: [WARN]
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:44:38 -0400
"Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With Opera uninstalled, the upgrade went perfectly smoothly! Now, with
> the help of cid's nvidia drivers, I've got my computer fully back up
> again =).
Hmm. I wished it were that easy for me when I tried it two weeks ag
On 6/7/06, Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:33, Henk Boom wrote:
> I do have opera installed from a custom package, but I have moves
> /usr/X11R6/bin to another location. I can't simply uninstall opera
> because aptitude tries to install x11-common first, then
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:33, Henk Boom wrote:
> I do have opera installed from a custom package, but I have moves
> /usr/X11R6/bin to another location. I can't simply uninstall opera
> because aptitude tries to install x11-common first, then fails.
From a command line of choice "dpkg -P opera
On 6/7/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:32:40 -0400
"Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to upgrade to xorg 7 for a few days now, and have
> managed to get just far enough through that the old X won't work
> anymore, but not far enough that t
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:32:40 -0400
"Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to upgrade to xorg 7 for a few days now, and have
> managed to get just far enough through that the old X won't work
> anymore, but not far enough that the new one will =(.
>
> Everything is hinging on the
I've been trying to upgrade to xorg 7 for a few days now, and have
managed to get just far enough through that the old X won't work
anymore, but not far enough that the new one will =(.
Everything is hinging on the upgrade of x11-common, which I've heard
is the hardest part of this upgrade. The i
An idea , may be !!
in fact when you use su , without dash ( - ) , you log with the
normal Environment and not with the root environment !!!
try instead : su - , perhaps ??
any way since you are new to linux (or debian) I think it is better for
you ( I repeat what I had said )
" I sug
Title: RE: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)
-Original Message-
From: Joost Witteveen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 11/5/2004 3:36 AM
To: james derry
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: permissions
james derry wrote:
#hi, bela,
#thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to
run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem.
#looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root
permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in a
#hi, bela,
#thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to
run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem.
#looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root
permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in as
root on ssh, i c
I suppose taht you do as a root ( super user)!!!
notice that `./usr/bin/script' begins with a dot (./) , this means that
it tried to creat usr/bin/script from the current and not from the
root. go to the root : cd / and try it again ( in this case
./usr/bin/script is same as /usr/bin/script)
#hi! i'm a newbie to debian/linux, and i recently took over admin of a
system running 2.4.18.
#this is my sources.list:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official sparc Binary-6
(20020719)$
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official sparc Binary-5
(20020719)$
deb cdrom:[De
Hi, All
Does anyone have a recommendation as to: what do I do with this error???
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jack# apt-get install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 478 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to ge
use apt-spy
apt-get install apt-spy
and run...
should work fine
- Original Message -
From: "David Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: apt-get upgrade errors
>
> Yesterday night I tried do an a
Yesterday night I tried do an apt-get upgrade but got these 404 erros:
[base url is ftp://ftp.filearena.net/]
Failed to fetch
/pub/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.0/cpp-3.0_3.0.4-13_i386.deb
/pub/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.0/gcc-3.0_3.0.4-13_i386.deb
/pub/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-desktop/libgnome-desktop
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:37:12 +0200
From: François Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Subject: gnome-utils upgrade errors in woody
Hello,
I just have upgraded my woody and I have this error !
Setting up gnome-utils (1
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:37:12 +0200
From: François Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Subject: gnome-utils upgrade errors in woody
Hello,
I just have upgraded my woody and I have this error !
Setting up gnome-utils (1
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:06:35PM -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Running woody with kernel 2.4.14. I do a daily apt-get update and upgrade.
> Almost daily, I see errors like this:
[...]
> I can manualy install the packages via dpkg --force. Is this errors in the
> package or something with my
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Running woody with kernel 2.4.14. I do a daily apt-get update and upgrade.
Almost daily, I see errors like this:
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase_4%3a2.2.1.0-6_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/ap
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 31851 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ppp 2.4.1-4 (using .../ppp_2.4.1.uus-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ppp ...
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
'/lib/modules/2.4.9-586tsc/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data
> dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite
> /usr/bin/gnome-font-install which is also in lobgnomeprint6.
All these error messages (I saw a lot of them in the last time)
depends on dpk
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:31:03PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> I have Gnome as well. X has slowed down considerably by going to 4.0, and
> Gnome doesn't help. Know how to trade X servers? I tried reinstalling the
> 3.3.6 version, but found myself with an invisible mouse.
Have a look in deve
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:31:03PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:35:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > Package: libgnomeprint-bin
> > Version: 0.25-0.1
> >
> > This is current x86/Woody.
> >
> > Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:35:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Package: libgnomeprint-bin
> Version: 0.25-0.1
>
> This is current x86/Woody.
>
> Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data
> dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite
> /usr/bin/gnome-f
Package: libgnomeprint-bin
Version: 0.25-0.1
This is current x86/Woody.
Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data
dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite
/usr/bin/gnome-font-install which is also in lobgnomeprint6.
...Remind me again why I have GNOME inst
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
> It's generally a missing news log file.
When innd was deinstalled, it must have left some news lines in
/etc/syslog.conf. Took them out and it worked.
Sorry if you got two of
> Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
> It's generally a missing news log file.
It was the syslogd.conf. I deinstalled inn, these lines weren't taken
out. Thanks.
Mark
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Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
It's generally a missing news log file.
Briuce
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I mirrored rex, and upgraded, unfortunately It is not very successful.
The install failed a couple times, till that last installation failed
with errors in the csh and tcsh packages. It seems on conflicts with the
other, and neither will install properly, but this seems minor.
My big problem, is
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