Re: Aptitude Error

2016-07-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:02:55 Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > > I am running v-8.4 and get the following error: > > > > E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > > an archive for it. > > > > This resulted from my

Re: Aptitude Error

2016-07-23 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > I am running v-8.4 and get the following error: > > E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > an archive for it. > > This resulted from my bumbling effort to remove virtualbox. > > What is the solution

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-02 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
All of these searches return nothing: stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable~i stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)' I know something must

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: Did you mean to drop debian-user? On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:29:55PM +0200, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: Did you mean to drop debian-user? On

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:23:12PM +0200, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: That's the problem -- you have no (active) deb lines for unstable, so apt doesn't know which packages are from it. The

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
Have you tried apt-get update or aptitude update before trying to install these packages? Yes, I did aptitude safe-upgrade after aptitude update and then aptitude full-upgrade. I selected n and it prompted me to downgrade the packages to testing. This means that the versions it had were

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Kousik Maiti
Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried apt-get update or aptitude update before trying to install these packages? Yes, I did

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kousik Maiti kousiks...@gmail.com wrote: Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list I selected n and it prompted me to downgrade the packages to testing. This means that the versions it

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not testing, you will

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly.

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by apt-show-versions |  grep unstable Or aptitude search ~Aunstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default release will keep the

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by apt-show-versions |  grep unstable Or aptitude search

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say: My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency resolver pull more from that

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by apt-show-versions | grep unstable Or aptitude

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:58:19PM -0700, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say: My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all packages from sid are installed

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:37:24AM -0400, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca was heard to say: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 dburr...@debian.org wrote: $ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)' debian01:~# aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram

Re: aptitude error message

2009-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:13, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: For quite some time now I've been seeing the following lines when I upgrade packages: database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't hijack threads] On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu wrote: Hi all, I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. Writing extended state information... Error! E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi all, I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. Writing extended state information... Error! E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package