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

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is a faulty download to blame for my problems?

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On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:03:28PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > >    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\*

[snip]
> 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

[snip]

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


> 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


> > $ 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


OK, this is all useful.

What do you get if you do:

$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb

Hugo.

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