Hi everyone, Thanks for all the prompt help. I followed one of the previous bits of advice by running
apt-get remove mplayer I can only assume that mplayer was causing the problem, as once this was removed the rest of the packages were processed properly. I have now reinstalled mplayer and it seems to be fine. Not sure why it happened - but thanks for the help, Robin On 6 Nov 2011, at 14:36, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +0000, Robin Wilson 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)". > > Don't suppose you remember anything else after this? > >> 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]? > > What happens when you hit enter? > > I'd try: > apt-get -f install > first of all. > > -f is for --fix-broken which can help in some circumstances. > > Other things you could try: > apt-get dist-upgrade > (rather than just plain upgrade) > aptitude dist-upgrade > (since aptitude uses a slightly different algorithm) > > But I suspect apt-get -f install will get you further down the path. > There's probably something dodgy somewhere which caused the original > upgrade to bomb out so it'll be interesting to see what error you do end > up with. > > Let us know how you get on. > > Simon > > -- > ... <Mithrandir> An acronym that sticks to your brain like butter to teflon > > -- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
