Re: [Hampshire] Is a faulty download to blame for my problem…

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Author: hantslug
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is a faulty download to blame for my problems?
On Sunday 18 November 2007 15:25, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:18:04PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 November 2007 13:06, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:44:17AM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> > > > Building tag database... Done
> > > > The following packages are BROKEN:
> > > > iceweasel-gnome-support
> > > > The following packages have been kept back:
> > > > acroread-debian-files iceweasel libpcre3 libperl5.8 perl perl-base
> > > > perl-modules perl-suid realplayer
> > > > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > > > ntp
> > > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not
> > > > upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 868kB will be
> > > > used. The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > > > iceweasel-gnome-support: Depends: iceweasel (=
> > > > 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1) but 2.0.0.6-0etch1 is installed and it is
> > > > kept back.
> > > > Resolving dependencies...
> > > > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the acroread-debian-files
> > > > package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
> > >
> > >    The acroread-debian-files package comes from the
> > > debian-multimedia.org repository -- is this repository currently
> > > enabled on your system?

> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > >    In /var/cache/apt/archives/ is there a .deb for the
> > > acroread-debian-files package?

> >
> > [lisi@Tux:/var/cache/apt/archives]$ ls -l | grep acroread-debian-files
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12392 2007-09-26 14:13
> > acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12442 2007-10-25 09:20
> > acroread-debian-files_0.0.12_i386.deb
> > [lisi@Tux:/var/cache/apt/archives]$

>
>    OK. What does the following say?

>
> $ COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l \*acroread\*


[lisi@Tux:/var/cache/apt/archives]$ COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l \*acroread\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                               Version                            
Description
+++-==================================-==================================-====================================================================================
ii  acroread                           8.1.1-0.2                          
Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
iHR acroread-debian-files              0.0.11                             
Debian specific parts of Adobe Acrobat Reader
ii  acroread-escript                   8.1.1-0.2                          
Adobe EScript Plug-In
un  acroread-plugin                    <none>                             (no 
description available)
un  acroread-plugins                   <none>                             (no 
description available)
ii  mozilla-acroread                   8.1.1-0.2                          
Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader plugin for mozilla / konqueror
[lisi@Tux:/var/cache/apt/archives]$



>
>    Also, how about this? (It gets the current package info on all
> packages starting with "acroread" that dpkg has handled at some
> point).

>
> $ sed -ne '/^Package: acroread/,/^$/p' /var/lib/dpkg/status


Package: acroread-escript
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 2020
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@???>
Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
Architecture: i386
Source: acroread
Version: 8.1.1-0.2
Replaces: acroread-plugins (<= 7.0.5-0.0)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libgcc1 (>=
1:4.1.1-12), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libstdc++6 (>=
4.1.1-12), libx11-6
Description: Adobe EScript Plug-In
The Adobe EScript (ECMA Script) Plug-In allows PDF documents to take
advantage of JavaScript. See the Acrobat JavaScript Object Specification
(AcroJS.pdf) for more details. This document can be accessed through
Adobe's web site.
.
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Package: acroread
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 78908
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@???>
Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
Architecture: i386
Version: 8.1.1-0.2
Replaces: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<=
7.0-0sarge0.3), mozilla-acroread (<= 8.1.1-0.2)
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12),
libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libglu1-mesa | libglu1,
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12),
libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), libldap2, libcupsys2, acroread-debian-files,
libxul0d
Suggests: acroread-plugins, mozilla-acroread
Conflicts: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<=
7.0-0sarge0.3)
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) files.
.
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Package: acroread-debian-files
Status: install reinstreq half-installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@???>
Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
Architecture: all
Version: 0.0.11
Config-Version: 0.0.11
Replaces: acroread (<= 7.0.9-0.2sarge1)
Depends: acroread (>= 8.1.1)
Recommends: mime-support
Description: Debian specific parts of Adobe Acrobat Reader
This package contains extra files supplied by Debian that are not part of
the upstream source:
.
o manpage
o README.Debian
o Debian menu file
o MIME types
o Startup script (/usr/bin/acroread)

>    The latter may be quite a few lines -- you may want to redirect the
> output to a file to capture it all.

>
>    Finally, what does this give you?

>
> $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread*


[lisi@Tux:~]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 2007-10-17
23:10 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-debian-files.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 597 2007-09-21
08:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-debian-files.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351 2007-09-21
08:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-debian-files.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293 2007-09-21
08:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-debian-files.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 150 2007-09-21
08:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-debian-files.preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 2007-10-17
23:10 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-escript.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 2007-09-21
10:19 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread-escript.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59234 2007-10-17 23:10 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78544 2007-09-21
10:19 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 374 2007-09-21
10:19 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.preinst
[lisi@Tux:~]$

Thanks, Hugo.

Lisi