aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]
Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193566 That's not particularly helpful. Consider my situation: # aptitude dist-upgrade [...] 67 packages upgraded, 46 newly installed, 0 to remove and 39 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/106MB of archives. After unpacking 55.0MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] y Writing extended state information... Done /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10 Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done # aptitude remove apt-listchanges Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done Package apt-listchanges is not installed, not removed [...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] y Writing extended state information... Done /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done ??? It seems like apt-get might work (it says it will upgrade 100 packages instead of 67) but the 67 are in the apt cache, I'm on a modem today and I don't have time to download 14MB of data over a flaky phone line today. And then there's no guarantee it will work because it seems as though apt thinks apt-listchanges is still installed. Help? -Dave -- "Some little people have music in them, but Fats, he was all music, and you know how big he was." -- James P. Johnson
Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:27:14AM -0400, David A. Greene wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to > >debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. > >bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over. > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193566 > > That's not particularly helpful. Consider my situation: > > # aptitude dist-upgrade > [...] > 67 packages upgraded, 46 newly installed, 0 to remove and 39 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/106MB of archives. After unpacking 55.0MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] y > Writing extended state information... Done > /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10 > Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done Again, the answer to your problem lies in the bug tracking system, and this time, the bug is already fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=89830&archive=yes In apt 0.5.5+ this should no longer be a problem. You can also work around this by purging apt-listchanges, instead of just removing it. -- - mdz
Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]
"David A. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > guarantee it will work because it seems as though apt thinks > apt-listchanges is still installed. This is a matter of configuration files; try purging apt-listchanges, and if that doesn't work remove /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges yourself. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]
Have you tried "dpkg --remove apt-listchanges" or "dpkg --purge apt-listchanges"? Daniel -- / Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---\ | "You see, I've already stolen the spork of wisdom | |and the spork of courage.. together with the spork | |of power, they form the mighty...TRI-SPORK!" -- Fluble | \-- Does your computer have Super Cow Powers? --- http://www.debian.org --/
