12.10 upgrade problems

[Tom Bell]

  On 9/8/2012 5:41 PM, Sid Boyce wrote:
> After the reboot from "upgrade-manager -d" I got errors as below:-
> Nothing will install and I have tried removing lines from "File" 
> (forget the path_to_File) when it complained of duplicates.
> root at sdrbox:~# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 
> libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 
> libselinux1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl 
> libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata zlib1g
> Suggested packages:
> xz-utils debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail dialog gnome-utils 
> libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqtgui4-perl 
> libqtcore4-perl apt bzip2 ncompress
> The following NEW packages will be installed
> apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 
> libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 
> libselinux1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl 
> libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata zlib1g
> 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/6,763 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 23.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
> debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
> dpkg: regarding .../libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb containing 
> libgcc1:amd64, pre-dependency problem:
> libgcc1 pre-depends on multiarch-support
> multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.
>
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> pre-dependency problem - not installing libgcc1:amd64
> No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> E: Internal Error, No file name for libc6
>
> I burned a DVD and verified it ... the image is too large for a CD.
> # ls -l /ISO
> total 881668
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902823936 Sep 8 16:02 
> kubuntu-12.10-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> When I boot it up I get a garbled graphic screen so I changed to a VC.
> Is there a way to install 12.10 desktop from the command line, I 
> couldn't find the command that's used to install kubuntu.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
If I remember rightly, "sudo apt-get install kde-manager"
should do it.

Tom

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