Could not calculate the upgrade -- Error Message (While doing Manual Update)

[Steve]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:46:39 -0000, Jatin Davey <daveyjatin at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Jatin Davey wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> While doing the manual update of the ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop using
>> the GUI i get this error message.
>> *"Could not calculate the upgrade".*
>>
>> It basically reads something from the cache and it goes on for about
>> 25 mins then i get this error message.
>>
>> Complete Message is as below:
>>
>> *Could not calculate the upgrade
>>
>> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
>> E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> This can be caused by:
>> * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
>> * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
>> * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
>>
>> This is most likely a transient problem, please try again later.*
>>
>>
>> Please help me on resolving this issue.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
>>
>
> I would like to add one more information that tried with the terminal.
> Basicallt i was trying to update the entire ubuntu box for any new
> packages using the GUI, Since it failed as described in the above mail i
> tried the apt-get command. I tried the following:
>
> firstly i gave the command : sudo apt-get update
> then i gave the command : sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> The result of doing this was that i got 2 packages upgraded in my system.
>
> So what i infer is that the GUI is not working properly but the system
> gets updated using the terminal. Please let me know if i am missing
> something here.
>
> Thanks
> Jatin
>
Have you tried the GUI since then?
As it says "This is most likely a transient problem, please try again  
later."

-- 
Steve