On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:43 +0000 Robin Wilson <ro...@rtwilson.com> wrote: > I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation > using apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded > all of the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing > saying that "dpkg returned an error code (1)". Whenever I try and run > apt-get upgrade again I get the following message: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > mplayer > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 231 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. > After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > > It says that 231 packages are not fully installed or removed, which > suggests to me that the upgrade process failed half way through. The > thing is - I can't find out how to get it to restart again, and how > to install/remove the 231 packages that need dealing with? All of my > google searches are turning up forum posts that are either very old, > or don't help at all. > > Any ideas how I can get this upgrade properly done?
personally I use aptitude update, followed by aptitude safe-upgrade as aptitude seems to do a better job of tracking dependencies but I am aware that using apt-get is now the default way. Did it not continue when you replied 'Y, enter'?? You could try 'apt-get remove mplayer' then 'apt-get upgrade' again in case it is that package blocking things, You can always re-install mplayer or get an alternative, I use vlc or guayadeque. -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------