<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:05 PM, H.S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hs.samix@gmail.com">hs.samix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">David Karr wrote:<br>
> I posted on this earlier today on the Ubuntu Forum, but I really could use<br>
> some help with this.<br>
><br>
> I was running along fine with Ubuntu 8.10 for quite a while. Whenever I see<br>
> the updates available icon, I always install all updates. I've been fine<br>
> with this.<br>
><br>
> Today, I decided i wanted to install two packages, the "dos2unix" tool, and<br>
> the "js2-mode" Emacs package. I did them both at about the same time, so<br>
> I'm not sure which caused my current problem.<br>
><br>
> I needed to add another repo to get the Emacs mode package. I added it, but<br>
<br>
</div>Which exact repo did you add? Right after you added this repo and<br>
checked for upgrades and installed the above two packages, were these<br>
the only packages that were needed to be upgraded/installed?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Ah! I didn't pay attention to this right after it, but now I see that the new repo is the key to this.<br><br>The repo URI was "<a href="http://http.us.debian.org/debian">http://http.us.debian.org/debian</a>".<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> it complained about a missing pubkey, so I added that pubkey. When I was<br>
> done, both dos2unix and the new Emacs mode appeared to be working fine.<br>
><br>
> I then noticed that the updates available icon was there. When I hovered<br>
> over it, it said "There are 530 updates available". Uh, oh.<br>
<br>
</div>After you installed the two packages, did you remove the repo you added<br>
in the earlier step?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>No, but I just tried unchecking that repo and reloading, and now it just says that only 1 update is available (not 531), for the flash plugin, which was probably a "real" update.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> When I brought up Update Manager, it presented a dialog saying:<br>
><br>
> "Not all updates can be installed ...", giving me the choice to run a<br>
> "Partial Upgrade", or just continue (the choice of which is ambiguous).<br>
><br>
> At this point, I posted the question about this on the Ubuntu forum.<br>
> Someone advised me to run the following commands:<br>
><br>
> sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade<br>
<br>
</div>I don't think there is any difference between this and checking for<br>
upgrades using the update manager.<br>
<br>
At this point, if you do<br>
$> sudo aptitude clean<br>
<br>
you will lose all downloaded (but not yet installed upgrades). But<br>
please answer the above queries first to see what is going on.<br>
<br>
It might be prudent to not do any upgrades till you are clear what is<br>
going on.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>That didn't appear to do much (6 lines of innocuous output), but as unchecking the new repo seemed to clean up the available updates list, I think I'm ok with that.<br><br>Any reason not to proceed with the flash plugin update at this point?<br>