Re: upgrading in sid

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <cderr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
The following packages will be upgraded:
gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2706kB of archives. After unpacking 1461kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Error!
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?

You used apt-get to break the desktop-base package behind aptitude's
back and that seems to have confused aptitude. I would hope that this
problem goes away once you have fixed the desktop-base package.


Thanks again for letting me know that it was my mixing apt-get and aptitude that probably screwed me up.

I don't know any reason that mixing apt-get and aptitude should cause
problems, particularly this problem. This is usually a symptom of your
package lists being out of sync in a weird way: it means that apt
thought it could download this package, but when it went to actually
download it no source was providing it. I expect you would get the same
error with apt-get as with aptitude.

Daniel


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