Re: Problems with apt

Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 19:40 schrieb Erik Jakobsen:
> Hi.
>
> On my suse 9.2 system I have problems with apt-get upgrade:
>
> The following packages have been kept back
>   ZynAddSubFX amarok amarok-gstreamer amarok-xine amarok-xmms epiphany
> gtk-qt-engine gtkmm2 hydrogen kconfigeditor kconfigure kdar kmymoney
> librsvg libsigc++2
>   libxslt libxslt-devel mlterm mozilla mozilla-calendar mozilla-irc
> mozilla-mail mozilla-spellchecker mozilla-venkman rosegarden4 uim
> uim-applet 1244 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 27 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1526MB/1542MB of archives.
> After unpacking 38.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
this means your list of packages is to large (1244 to upgrade).

split your upgrade into smaller pieces:
apt install <partly list of packages>
the number of packages should be smaller than 900.

A lot of people reported this problem and splitting in several calls to 
apt install <list> fixed it ..

Toni
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