Making apt-get powercut-proof

[Evan]

It was actually spitting out errors in the cli. Something about a malformed
prefs file. Killing the update and running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
scrollkeeper" fixed it.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Evan wrote:
>
>> Reading this, I just thought I'd mention that previous upgrades have
>> caused
>> issues with scrollkeeper-update, in which the only way to continue was to
>> kill the process. Having a 'skip package' option would have been
>> particularly useful in that situation.
>>
>
> updating the docs database can take a very long time (i dont know why).
>
> you need to be patient.
>
> sam
>
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