[Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Robin Wilson
Hi, 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

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:43 + 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

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Robin, On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:43 +, ro...@rtwilson.com said: my Debian installation What are the contents of: /etc/debian_version and /etc/apt/sources.list Do you have any files in /etc/apt/sources.d? If so, what are their contents? -- You can have everything in life you want if you help

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, 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

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Robin Wilson
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