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

[NoOp]

On 02/25/2009 03:42 PM, David Karr wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net> wrote:

>> > 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.
>>
> 
> In this case, I was only using it to install an Emacs lisp package. In the
> future, if I have to do that again, I'll enable the repo, install just that
> package, and disable the repo.  If it's for anything else, I'll keep it away
> from update manager.

Have you checked to see if perhaps the package is already available?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=emacs

Also, you can try:
http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=packages.ubuntu+%2Bemacs
which leads to a PPA for Emacs Lisp:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa

Not sure if those are helpful, but if you post the name of the debian
package here then someone is likely to be able to assist.