circular dependencies in aptitude?

[NoOp]

On 06/08/2010 07:42 PM, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
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> 
> The problem is that my tech guy at school blocks *.bz2 files so 
> aptitude is broken.  I can't run sudo aptitude update until he gets 
> around to unblocking them as he has promissed.  However, I can download 
> *.debs manually!

Does he allow through a proxy?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

Also this might be of interest:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy

That said, how did you install 10.04 on the machines to begin with?