Updates blocked

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/07/10 01:01, Clay Weber wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 05:21:08 am Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 20/07/10 18:01, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>      
>>> On 20/07/2010 09:51, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 20/07/10 17:00, Valter Mura wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> since few days ago, I have some updates, concerning translation,
>>>>> Italian and English, blocked in Kpackagekit. They refers to general
>>>>> and KDE packets.
>>>>>
>>>>> I enabled the ppa repos and have Lucid 10.04.1 with KDE 4.4.5
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyboby experience the same? Any hint to solve the issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>>            
>>>> Ah, seems to be a common thing then. I run Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) and have
>>>> had this message for the past 2 days - until this morning (my time) when
>>>> all these "held back" upgrades to do with language translations were
>>>> performed.
>>>>
>>>> Try again and see if the upgrades are done.
>>>>          
>>> I you have the kubuntu beta ppa that seems to be how it works... and I
>>> do not recommend the upgrade to 4.5 RC2, it broke one system here to
>>> pieces.
>>>        
>> I gave away KDE some months back and am using Ubuntu. The problem seems
>> to apply to the language translations - for whatever reasons. This
>> morning (my time) all the "held back" updates were finally applied.
>>
>> BC
>>      
> Sometimes, depending on which actual mirror you are grabbing updates from,
> some packages have not been fully synced or uploaded into the repo just yet
> (or perhaps it was faulty or corrupt). If that package or packages is a
> dependency, other packages can't be installed, hence the 'held back' message.
> This is a relatively normal occurrence in debian based systems and this
> prevents you from breaking something due to the missing bits.
>
> clay
>    

Aha, probably what happened. I use the linux.org mirror here in 
Australia so it may not have synced as you suggest until yesterday.

BC


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