[Sussex]The first of the Debian based confusion(s)

[John D.]

Thomas Adam wrote:

>On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:51:29AM -0400, John D. wrote:
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>>So, having "butchered" my apt/sources.list from Thomas' and Steves 
>>advice it now looks like this:
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>You don't want to be doing that...  :P
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>>`libgtk1.2-common' is missing final newline Errors were encountered
>>while processing: vdr-kbd Processing was halted because there were too
>>many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>root at johnsPC:~#
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>Right, I suspect that the 'libgtk1.2-common' package is either in the
>installed, removed but NOT purged state.  Does the file:
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>/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgtk1.2-common.list
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>exist?  If so, kindly add a blank line to the end of the file and try
>the command again.
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>>so it's still rather confusing (not to mention, that when I tried to
>>"do the usual" and install the nvidia driver, I ended up with an error
>>about missing files/libs that I've never seen before :( ).
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>Which was what?
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I follow the instruction with initially told me that the 
libgtk1.2-common.list then had an empty line, I backspace it so that it 
just showed the blue ~ sign and then tried to apt-get dist-upgrade.

I then had to do that to a further 7 or so list files (vim-common, 
squid-common, kstars-data, kde-i18n-da, kdei18n-tr, libssl-dev, 
libs11-dev, kasteroids, etc).

This has allowed the install to complete the apt-get dist-upgrade (as 
far as I can tell). I also am presuming that some of these list files 
must have been corrupted during install (though the md5sum was OK when I 
d/l'd the knoppix 3.8.1).

I'll go and try the nvidia driver and opera - as neither of them wanted 
to play earlier!

regards

John D.