[ale] In DEB/APT Hell Again

[Robert L. Harris]

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 It looks like you're missing some output,  what is the package the
apt-get -f is failing on?

Robert

On 5/24/11 6:34 PM, JD wrote:
> Ok, I'm back again. Back in dpkg hell seeking for some help. The
> help this weekend was exactly correct and I'm hoping for another
> win on a different machine.
>
> The normal 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' failed with lots and
> lots of packages that needed to be updated. 8.04 Ubuntu Server
> x64.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------- #
> apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency
> tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run
> `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> ----------------------------------------------------------- #
> aptitude clean
>
> Worked. The next apt-get -f install run re-downloaded all the
> needed packages, then failed with an error (2) in dpkg.
> ----------------------------------------------------------- #
> apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building
> dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting
> dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be
> installed: coreutils debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common
> libapache2-mod-php5 libfreetype6 libsysfs2 php5-cli php5-common
> php5-curl php5-gd php5-ldap php5-mysql sudo Suggested packages:
> avahi-autoipd resolvconf php-pear libfreetype6-dev The following
> NEW packages will be installed: debianutils libfreetype6 libsysfs2
> sudo The following packages will be upgraded: coreutils
> dhcp3-client dhcp3-common libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-common
> php5-curl php5-gd php5-ldap php5-mysql 10 upgraded, 4 newly
> installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9164kB
> of archives. After this operation, 13.3MB of additional disk space
> will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring
> packages ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
> (2)
>
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>
> Ideas? Google and Ubuntu forums haven't been helpful to a
> solution. _______________________________________________ Ale
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