Hi everyone,
Thanks for all the prompt help. I followed one of the previous bits of advice by running
apt-get remove mplayer
I can only assume that mplayer was causing the problem, as once this was removed the rest of the packages were processed properly. I have now reinstalled mplayer and it seems to be fine.
Not sure why it happened - but thanks for the help,
Robin
On 6 Nov 2011, at 14:36, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +0000, Robin Wilson wrote:
>> I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation using
>> apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded all of
>> the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing saying
>> that "dpkg returned an error code (1)".
>
> Don't suppose you remember anything else after this?
>
>> Whenever I try and run apt-get upgrade again I get the following
>> message:
>
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>> mplayer
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> 231 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> What happens when you hit enter?
>
> I'd try:
> apt-get -f install
> first of all.
>
> -f is for --fix-broken which can help in some circumstances.
>
> Other things you could try:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> (rather than just plain upgrade)
> aptitude dist-upgrade
> (since aptitude uses a slightly different algorithm)
>
> But I suspect apt-get -f install will get you further down the path.
> There's probably something dodgy somewhere which caused the original
> upgrade to bomb out so it'll be interesting to see what error you do end
> up with.
>
> Let us know how you get on.
>
> Simon
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