[Bug 159163] Re: Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get

2008-11-07 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 108189 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108189 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 108189, so it is being marked as such. Please look at

[Bug 159163] Re: Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get

2008-10-11 Thread youcef
** This bug has been flagged as a security issue -- Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159163 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 159163] Re: Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get

2007-11-02 Thread Cory Albrecht
OK,I found a link (finally!) that helped with my problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591910 I did the mv gnome-user-data.list to another name and tried an 'apt-get purge gnome-user-data' and this time it was the list file for gnome- terminal-data which was the offender with t

[Bug 159163] Re: Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get

2007-11-02 Thread Cory Albrecht
I had already tried what you suggest, albeit with apt-get rather than aptitude. Unofrtunately the same thing still keeps happening. I even tried deleting teh contents of /var/cache/apt, to no avail. I had also already done the 'dpkg --configure -a', but that prints out nothing when run. :-( As fo

[Bug 159163] Re: Cannot do updates with synaptic, updatemanager or apt-get

2007-10-31 Thread Loye Young
Synaptic and update-manager both use apt-get on the backend, so it's expected that all three give you the same behavior. It looks like you have one or more packages in the dpkg cache that are corrupted, perhaps by an interrupted Internet connection during a download. I suggest cleaning out the ca