VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Beartooth Testbedder]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:35:44 -0500, Beartooth Testbedder wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:09:22 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> It's worse even than I thought. I just tried to open the Package manager;
> it started its usual checks, then gave me this : 
> 
>> Failed to check for installed and available applications
> 
>> This is a major failure of your software management system. Check the
>> file
>> permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and
>> reload
>> the software information: 'sudo apt-get update'.

That file belongs to root. Should it?

As for the correctness .... Well, I went into it as root with nano -w (the
same way I had put stuff in); deleted a bunch of things; uncommented some
others; and then commanded  sudo apt-get update, as the error message had
said. 

This time it ran a little while, but ended up with :

[...]
Fetched 6553kB in 50s (129kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing rt3.6-apache (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
btth at SblzUb:/$

So I went in again, and commented out the backports lines. This time I got : 

btth at SblzUb:/$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Sources
Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
btth at SblzUb:/$

If I'm reading that right, it finished -- but didn't do anything. Nor did
it give me any message saying nothing needed doing ...

So am I ready to try to upgrade??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : F8, C5.1, U6.06;
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.