Re: [PLUG] File system problem

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Dan Widyono wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:10:53PM -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
>  
>
> > Now getting the following message with apt get upgrade
> >    
> [errors...]
>  
>
> > Does that help?
> >    
>
> Ouch.  That doesn't help.  Although it points to "downgrade" :)  

> it could be that somehow apt screwed up the
> installation of some updates, and now some/many files are in a bad state.  I
> am an RPM + YUM person myself, on Red Hat and similar systems.  Thus, I can
> not help you extricate yourself out of your apt + ubuntu quandry.
>  

> Good luck and I hope some apt person (hee hee) can help you more,
>
>  

Yeah.  I think I screwed it up somehow when I created a "mixed" system 
-- Ubuntu Warty (stable) as a base, with some apps from Ubuntu Hoary 
(testing).  There is a wiki/how-to that explains how and this is 
supposed to be safer way to go if you need the newer versions of apps 
with the stability of the current foundation.  I thought I followed it 
properly, but...


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