little problem with update manager -- any ideas?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:07 am
Hi! First, I want to say thank you to all involved (including the community at large) for this great distro. I have been using Linux Mint for almost a year. It makes me feel as if I had a good sense of what makes a quality distro considering Mint is ranked as the #4 OS (and that is still unvbelieveable! Deserved, but unbelievable...).
Anyway, since I installed LM8, I seem to have a little problem with update-manager. First, I want to mention that I do have additional repositories in my sources.list. Also, I had this same problem (described below) a few days ago, but I am pretty sure it was because I was doing rather reckless dist-upgrades instead of using the update manager.
Before my last install, I had tried to go to the update manager as I noticed there were items available. However, I was informed that there were broken packages and that I needed to fix them first. I went into both synaptic and aptitude and I could not see nor find any broken packages. For good measure I did both a dpkg --configure -a and apt-get -f install...the later installed a few packages, but when I checked again with the update manager, I get the same warning and am prevented from updating. [When I was on my last install, after doing the dpkg --configure -a and apt-get, I did a apt-get dist-upgrade because I did not know what else to do. Well... whatever was cued for updating completely destroyed my system. I could not even get into a bash shell from the recovery mode. Nor did any repairs with the LiveCD mounted using chroot do any good. That is when I decided to reinstall and be very careful about runing apt-get dist-upgrade.]
No matter where I look I cannot seem to locate the broken packages which the update manager insists I have. So I was wondering if anyone has any other possible suggestions.... I have researched this around the web a bit, but thought that the update manager might be configured for Mint, so I am posting here in the hope that perhaps someone has encountered this problem.
Lastly, as I said, I do have other repositories, and I now know not to run any dist-upgrades. Upon this last clean install of Helena, I immediately updated and upgraded... Then yesterday I installed Wine and a few other packages through synaptic. Today I see that their are updates available from the update manager, but as I describe above, I cannot update. I am assuming that the update-manager (as opposed to using apt-get dist-upgrade) strictly concerns itself with the Mint Distro and related repositories and not any additional repositories/packages I might have in my /apt/sources.list.... if this presumption is true, my additional repositories should not really be any cause for alarm.. Am I correct in thinking this?
Any thoughts would be immensely appreciated...!
Thank you,
P
Anyway, since I installed LM8, I seem to have a little problem with update-manager. First, I want to mention that I do have additional repositories in my sources.list. Also, I had this same problem (described below) a few days ago, but I am pretty sure it was because I was doing rather reckless dist-upgrades instead of using the update manager.
Before my last install, I had tried to go to the update manager as I noticed there were items available. However, I was informed that there were broken packages and that I needed to fix them first. I went into both synaptic and aptitude and I could not see nor find any broken packages. For good measure I did both a dpkg --configure -a and apt-get -f install...the later installed a few packages, but when I checked again with the update manager, I get the same warning and am prevented from updating. [When I was on my last install, after doing the dpkg --configure -a and apt-get, I did a apt-get dist-upgrade because I did not know what else to do. Well... whatever was cued for updating completely destroyed my system. I could not even get into a bash shell from the recovery mode. Nor did any repairs with the LiveCD mounted using chroot do any good. That is when I decided to reinstall and be very careful about runing apt-get dist-upgrade.]
No matter where I look I cannot seem to locate the broken packages which the update manager insists I have. So I was wondering if anyone has any other possible suggestions.... I have researched this around the web a bit, but thought that the update manager might be configured for Mint, so I am posting here in the hope that perhaps someone has encountered this problem.
Lastly, as I said, I do have other repositories, and I now know not to run any dist-upgrades. Upon this last clean install of Helena, I immediately updated and upgraded... Then yesterday I installed Wine and a few other packages through synaptic. Today I see that their are updates available from the update manager, but as I describe above, I cannot update. I am assuming that the update-manager (as opposed to using apt-get dist-upgrade) strictly concerns itself with the Mint Distro and related repositories and not any additional repositories/packages I might have in my /apt/sources.list.... if this presumption is true, my additional repositories should not really be any cause for alarm.. Am I correct in thinking this?
Any thoughts would be immensely appreciated...!
Thank you,
P