On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 01:08:10 +1300 Chris Bannister sent: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:41:11PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:29:40 +1300 Chris Bannister sent: > > > > No. I did a few things to try to get it to work and might have > > deleted it out of /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > I regulary do an 'apt-get clean' just to free up the space, not sure > what other issues it solves. > > > Whatever I did it's not there and I have run apt-get update several > > times and apt-get upgrade with and without -f it didn't work. > > If there is a problem in one of the install scripts, then it doesn't > matter how many times you try, it will fail every time. > > > But I need to reinstall this system anyway. But will probably do it > > next Monday when I'm somewhere that has sufficient bandwidth. > > If you could resolve this issue, do you still think you will need to > reinstall? > > HANG ON, this is bug #773806 -- did you not check the bts? > > I'd say the fix is to download the one from sid and install that. > > Have you got apt-listbugs installed? >
I have now. Thanks for that. The lappy that I'm taking about is a second machine that doesn't always boot in the first instance, something wrong with POST I think, it sometimes doesn't complete. Anyway, I see I'm running out of space in /usr and /home and the data partitions. I might try to make this a VM machine, not that I have any idea what I'm talking about, and will have to read up. But at the moment there is just too much I have on my plate to attempt it. So maybe a week from now? Hopefully, if I can get this load trimmed down. Thank you for your help and thank you for apt-listbugs. Stay well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** Deep in their roots, All flowers keep the light. .....Theodore Roethke *********************************************** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic ----------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150203101623.7e57af3d@taogypsy