the problem has been rectified, so this can be closed. btw, other people had similar problem, according to the launchpad link. i'm not familiar with how updates are packaged and/or if there are different packages for each version of ubuntu, but another person indicated he had the same problem with 10.04 but not with 10.10, so i'm guessing that it was a packaging problem. thanks for looking into this though.
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:20:04 +0000 > From: 752...@bugs.launchpad.net > To: ad...@hotmail.com > Subject: [Bug 752201] Re: apr 05/11 update renders updates inoperable > > As said, there is not a single command associated with 'sudo apt-get > install'. This is already a command! > A command to install one or more packages. > > If you want to run the commands 'update', 'upgrade', 'dist-upgrade' > and/or all the others it's as simple as 'sudo apt-get update', 'sudo > apt-get upgrade', 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' or alike (note: no > 'install' in between). > > 'sudo apt-get install update' never worked and will never work. The > commands you are looking for are most properly 'sudo apt-get update' to > update the knowledge of APT about which packages are available and 'sudo > apt-get upgrade' to let APT install all updates for your installed > packages (which can be installed, but as you say something about held > back packages, it seems its not possible for all at the moment). > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/752201 > > Title: > apr 05/11 update renders updates inoperable > > Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > interesting problem today. i think i saw a posting of this before but > can't find it. > > i did an update about an hour ago via the update manager. there was a > message that said all packages cannot be installed and that a partial > update should be attempted to install as many packages as possible. > after doing that, i did another update. there are other packages > shown, but they are greyed out, so is the install updates button. > > issuing sudo apt-get install update resulted in > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Couldn't find package update > > using 10.04.2 LTS > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/752201/+subscribe -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/752201 Title: apr 05/11 update renders updates inoperable -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
