[Ubuntu 8.10] Need help getting out of odd update manager loop

[Scott Abbey]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, David Karr <davidmichaelkarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:05 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which exact repo did you add? Right after you added this repo and
>> checked for upgrades and installed the above two packages, were these
>> the only packages that were needed to be upgraded/installed?
>
> Ah! I didn't pay attention to this right after it, but now I see that the
> new repo is the key to this.
>
> The repo URI was "http://http.us.debian.org/debian".

Be very careful adding repos to your system. Debian's repos are *not*
compatible with Ubuntu, generally speaking. Key libraries are at
different versions and can cause major havoc to an Ubuntu system. It
appears you've lucked out this time, but for future reference, don't
just add any old repo to your sources. My personal suggestion, for
simplicity's sake, is to stick to the official Ubuntu repos and the
occasional launchpad.net PPA. If you absolutely must have a package
that can't be installed from one of those two, you can try downloading
*just the package* from Debian.

> Any reason not to proceed with the flash plugin update at this point?

You should be ok now that you've disable the Debian repo. Go ahead and
delete that repo entirely to avoid future snafus.

-- 
Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net>