Strange but true 8.04 updates today May 26

[Paul Lemmons]

chuck adams wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Chuck, aptitude is much more forthcomming woth the reason why something 
is not going in right. Try this:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude full-upgrade

One of the two last commands will probably tell you what is wrong.
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