Big Problem with Apt-Get

[Dave -]

Hi James, and all

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately nothing worked. But I'm not very 
experienced with debian package management yet. Ultimately I saved the data 
from my home folder and reformated/reinstalled ubuntu then apt-geted kubuntu 
desktop. Everything is working great so far. I added universe and multiverse 
to everything but will no longer install any unofficial repositories, just 
in case.

Good day Everyone


On 5/1/05, James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:05 pm, Dave - wrote:
> > Appreciate the help guys but nothing seems to work. I've tried every 
> type
> > of removal, purge, update, upgrade, force, etc. I'm about ready to
> > reformat and reinstall kubuntu. It maybe did have something to do with
> > the marillet sources I added. Thanks to the Unofficial Hoary guide. :-(
> > Basically my sources.list consisted of all Hoarys including universe and
> > multiverse plus the three marillets.
> >
> > Searched everywhere online for hours and hours. Oh, well. So any more
> > suggestions on how to prevent something like this from happening again?
> > I'm not new to linux but this is my first debian-based distro. Thanks.
> >
> > Dave
> 
> You may have a corrupted download. Which means two options:
> 
> 1. Purge (clean) the package cache to force apt to download the package
> again. ie, "sudo apt-get clean ; apt-get upgrade". However, this will
> remove ALL previously downloaded packages - worst case scenario; you need
> to download stuff again if you intend "reinstalling" a package you already
> have.
> 
> 2. Go to /var/cache/apt/archives and delete the offending package(s) deb
> file. Then simply redo the operation you attempted in the first place
> "sudo apt-get upgrade".
> 
> If both fail, then you may need to remove packages then try the upgrade
> again and then reinstall the packages you removed. I had this problem last
> week with kdelibs - the "upgraded" version was trying to over write a file
> from kdenetwork. So I "apt-get remove kdenetwork" then "apt-get upgrade" -
> this installed kdelibs without errors or "forcing", then simply "apt-get
> install kdenetwork". Problem solved.
> 
> apt with deb's is MUCH better than basically every RPM-based system I've
> used (SuSE/RedHat/Fedora/Mandriva - not starting a holy war, just
> recounting my experience). That said, sometimes you need to work around
> slightly broken packages doing a remove-upgrade-reinstall cycle (like I
> described above with kdelibs).
> 
> Good luck with it all :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
>
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