Thanks gabriel I also removed skype from my repositories. It all seems to be working now regards David
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:41 +1100, Gabriel Noronha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:22 +1100, david wrote: > > Hi Dave > > thanks for getting back to me I tried what you suggested it returned > > saying it could not access archive. > > also my version of Skype was different so I changed that part. > > On looking for the archive file I found that nearly all of its contents > > were in RED text. not sure if this is a problem or not. > > It seems as though your original instructions are right with regard to > > the version numbers as I did find the file skype_2.0.0.63-1_i386.deb.and > > again it is in red text. what does this mean? > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:27 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:42 +1100, david wrote: > > > > hello all > > > > Over the past week or so I have been unable to get the updates > > > > initially it said the software index was broken so I did > > > > sudo apt-get install -f > > > > I get the following error problems > > > > > > Try running this from a terminal > > > > > > sudo dpkg -i --force-all > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/skype_2.0.0.63-1_i386.deb > > > > > > That manually installs the deb and forces it to install. Looks like > > > someone changed the packaging without testing upgrades properly before > > > releasing it. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > I suggest you purge and remove your previous version on skype. it looks > like it's struggling to do an upgrade.. so avoid upgrading and remove > your old skype completly. first. > -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
