Apt-get hell

joosep · 08-11-2005, 12:45 PM

First of all, this is NOT about the non-us repositories. Nosiree! It is about apt-get bitching on update. I have close to 135 packages on my system that need upgrading, which doesn't succeed. Dammit! Here is the output of apt-get upgrade:

Quote:

Get:135 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main xterm 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 [529kB]
Fetched 76.6MB in 13m45s (92.8kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 78040 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf-i18n 1.4.56 (using .../debconf-i18n_1.4.57_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf-i18n ...
Preparing to replace debconf 1.4.56 (using .../debconf_1.4.57_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf ...
Preparing to replace lsb-base 3.0-1 (using .../lsb-base_3.0-4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lsb-base ...
Setting up debconf-i18n (1.4.57) ...
Setting up debconf (1.4.57) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/museek/messages.py ...
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/museek/messages.py", line 603
def __init__(self, upload = None, user = None, path = None)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is my sources.list:

Quote:

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy

# This file may be edited by the MEPIS System Center
# Do not modify the comments manually!
# Change sources only in the section at the end of this file!

# Primary
deb http://apt.mepis.org/3.3/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

# MEPIS apt pool - specific packages available on-line

# DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE
# mplayer
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

I need to get it updating. Thanks for any help.

NoobieDoobieDo · 08-12-2005, 06:47 AM

check out the reply in this thread

other linuxquestions.org thread

or this link

link

I also saw this advice :

" dpkg-reconfigure locales "

from this link

link

gred · 08-13-2005, 04:49 PM

If you really need them fine - if not comment out the src lines from your sources list.
The deb http://apt.mepis.org/3.3/ unstable main was unavailable recently and changing to deb http://apt.mepis.org/3.3.1/ unstable main resolved the problem. You can try 3.3.2. as well.
Most importantly doing a general upgrade is never adviseable and has caused many problems. When you say you have 135 that need upgrades, do you mean could be upgraded or 'need'? Do you ever in your life use all of them ?:-)
Best way is to use Synaptic - upgrade the ones you need to and even then look oot for any warnings and don't say yes when you mean no LOL.