A friend asked me about this problem:
I have tried and tried to do a dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade
and
just plain installing packages and apt (dpkg) will always fail
on
something called:
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
This error happens once apt has given me the list of the
packages it
wants to change and starts to read the 1st. CD, once it gets to
about
[~40%] it just packes up.
I did manage to do a "apt-get upgrade" but that only resulted
in about
1/4 of the packages to be upgraded, I just wondered if this has
something to do with dependencies and "apt-cache stats" gives
me the
following output:
Total Package Names : 9853 (473k)
Normal Packages: 7836
Pure Virtual Packages: 227
Single Virtual Packages: 307
Mixed Virtual Packages: 120
Missing: 1363
Total Distinct Versions: 8704 (418k)
Total Dependencies: 43433 (1042k)
Total Ver/File relations: 8862 (142k)
Total Provides Mappings: 1688 (33.8k)
Total Globbed Strings: 68 (620)
Total Slack space: 37.3k
Total Space Accounted for: 2147k
Note the "Missing " part, that is the missing dependency files
that are
on the system.
Have you got any ideas of what this error means, I have tried
to search
for a list of error messages but so far I can't find one.
The CDs referenced are the unofficial woody CDs available from fsn.hu.
I have no idea what to suggest for this problem so I am passing it along to
this list. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Henry House
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