You're welcome

There is a basic problem with the entire APT system somewhere. This is what the start of the thread was about.

Then he decides, with a screwed package management system, to install more packages without straightening out the package manager first.

Going back over the thread you will see I suggested;
dpkg --audit
apt-get clean
dpkg --clear-avail

At that time they may have done some good, would undoubtedly shown up the fglrx-driver problem, and may have cleaned up what ever was strange in this new install.

May still help. Continuing to add up things not completely installed and opperations to install them will not be helpful. The base of the problem must be addressed first.

The thread actually started because of a malformed sources.list line. That in itself is not a big problem to overcome. The next problem come with attempting to restart the machine after it jammed, I'm not sure we can blame that on APT. The next problem is that on reboot he can't get anything but a console.

After having read the entire thread again I'm not sure it helped moving from aptitude to apt-get either. I know the databases have been "fixed" so the commands can apparently work ok but it is always best to use one and stick to it. Maybe if he stuck with, and we suggested he stick with, aptitude apt would have provided the options.

Post 3 suggests there are 14 updates available (that was using aptitude not apt-get) so my next suggestion would be to if there are any outstanding dependency issues aptitude will say what they are and make recommendations. After that is done we can work on the problem of not getting anything but a console.

Sounds great to me.

Trying your suggestion,k3lt01 and running "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade"

It might take me a while to type it all out so you can see all the output--
Be back in a few minutes.

The mouse is not working in console mode so I was only able to show you all of the text of what's on my screen, sorry.

There still seems to be a problem with your sources.list, please post it again.

Tip: To scroll on the command-line use Shift+PageUp/ÜageDown.

Ok now run
this will clear your cache of all the debs that are in there. We will do this because aptitude is complaing that it can't rebuild the package cache. Once you have done that run again.

Thanks for the tip!

All of the rest of the output is identical to that in post #36

Unless you really want to download the source tarballs you really don't need this line I also wonder if you could use a better repository location for where you are. It may be worth your while taking a look at this. Although having said that you do have the debian.net listed in one line (I'd do it in 3 of the 4 lines) so in theory that should find the closest and fastest location for you. If I were you I would set my repository up like this instead

That says to me there is a temporary problem with the us servers. I recommend you change your repository to the format in the post above this one.

Do you have typed the sources list by hand or did you copy and paste to the forum? I ask because you have listed "non free" as repository behind any entry, where it should be "non-free", as seen in k3lt01's sources.list. Also, keep in mind that the wheezy/updates repository (the one pointing at security.debian.org) does not have the contrib and non-free subsections.

I think he would be typing by hand otherwise there would have been errors for that. I have edited my previous post as well (I forgot about security just being main).

I completely deleted this line in my sources list-
My sources list now reflects exactly the repository list you posted and reccommended-;)
Cheers!

Why does my sources list text appear in the terminal: in green, red and pink colored text?