Re: Problems with apt

Horst Graffy wrote:
>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
>  

Ok Toni. Thanks for your reply. To be honest I'm still not quite sure on 
how to decrease the size of the list.
What could stand for <list> for instance ?.

Sorry that I'm unable to see the forrest for trees :-)

Erik