Strange but true 8.04 updates today May 26

[chuck adams]

Thought this might be of interest and maybe some one has
an answer or two.

This system that I use daily started with a clean install of
8.04 beta and upgraded as time has passed.  Works just
great and today a new kernel and a new nvidia-glx-new
and all went together just fine.

So, having another AMD Athlon 64x2 with a nvidia board
that wasn't working with anything since a beta in mid-April,
I decided it was time to try again.

If I take the 8.04 DVD release and install it cleanly.  Then
wait until I get the little green video board icon in the lower
task bar.  Then install the nvidia-glx-new and enable and
reboot the screen comes up with the desired 1280x1024
resolution that I have wanted for a long time.  So far so good.

Then I bring up the adept manager using the little bear hugging
the red triangle, type in the secret password, and start the updates.
After they are all downloaded and the install starts I get the hated
"dependency broken can't continue" message.  Can't tell which
package is broken.

So I quit and then do:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

and then try one package at a time that was listed in
the GUI.   Now get messages about corrupted tar files.

So.  Things seem to be broken for a new install and then
upgrade.

Any help appreciated in tracking down the problem.
Don't know which package to blame and file a bug report.

Film at 11.

Chuck