[ubuntu-uk] Broken Precise .....

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Feb 17 16:06:37 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:12:30PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 17 February 2012 15:10, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:
> > On 17/02/12 15:06, Liam Proven wrote:
> >>
> >> Try sudo apt-get install -f
> >
> > Sorry, that just gives me:
> > barry at prrecise:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
> > [sudo] password for barry:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> 
> Then you don't have broken packages. Looking more closely at the error
> you posted, it says you have /held/ broken packages. What packages are
> marked as "hold"?

That can commonly happen if the archive is inconsistant, particularly
with unity packages where there are tight version constraints between
them.  Typically they resolve themselves in a few hours and an install
will continue.

I would normally not advise to take any offered Partial upgrades.  They
tend to lead to pain unless you intimately understand the output of
apt-get when resolving conflicts.

Good luck.

-apw



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