Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I received notice via the orange gear icon that Ubuntu (8.04 hardy) has > updates for me to install. I told it to do so. It's a relatively long > update -- for me, anyway -- so I wasn't paying attention most of the > time. I decided to look back and see how it was doing and found a dialog > box with the following message: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s). > Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages? > > [No] [Yes] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > That's not very informative. How would I know if I should continue or > not? All I can see in the update window is, in the upper half of the > window, a list of the last 5 packages(?): samba, samba-common, > smbclient, ttf-opensymbol, and winbind. Each of these has a filled in > blue square to the left if the package name. I recall that there were > packages for Open Office, too, but until I respond to the dialog box I > can't do anything with the update window. The lower half of the window > starts with > > Version 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.9 (or is it lubuntu?) > > followed by some security update descriptions. > > So, is the best answer yes, or no, and why? > > Thanks. > I am trying to update my Kubuntu Karmic machine and the servers are just crawling. I canceled the update and will try again later.
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