On Sunday 18 November 2007 17:34, john lewis wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:03:28 +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.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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
>
> FWIW I have just done "aptitude install acroread" on the laptop
> and I get slightly different results to the above, there is no
> mention of Adobe EScrip Plug-In or mozilla-acroread.
>
> I did not attempt to install acroread-plugins which is probably why I
> have a difference.
>
> The reason I didn't install it before is lack of memory on the
> laptop. I have been using acroread all day to access genealogy data
> in large pdf files on my current main system which has 256 Meg memory
> (twice that on the laptop) and acroread just crawls. It needs 1 Gig
> to be really usable so I use xpdf for quick reads of pdf files.
Uninstalling it via aptitude is not an option, or I would happily do it. But
aptitude is firmly stuck on the intractable problem.
I have 512 Mb RAM and have not here-to-fore had a problem with acroread files.
And acroread itself is one of the things that are working fine. It just
seems to be helping to block aptitude. :-(
Lisi
