Hi Robin,

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +0000, 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 of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
> 
> It says that 231 packages are not fully installed or removed, which suggests 
> to me that the upgrade process failed half way through. The thing is - I 
> can't find out how to get it to restart again, and how to install/remove the 
> 231 packages that need dealing with? All of my google searches are turning up 
> forum posts that are either very old, or don't help at all.

It normally carries on to complete the outstanding actions after it
does the upgrade of mplayer. Does it not do that for you? Can you
post the full output after you say "Y" to the above?

apt-get dist-upgrade may be necessary, but show us what happens with
the above first..

Cheers,
Andy

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