Re: Unhelpful error messages seem to haunt me. Kubuntu Upgrade to 9.10

Dumitru Ciobanu <[email protected]>
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Possible solution here
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3108676.0
However I would first at least backup the /etc/source.lst. Not sure if
that will work but it looked ... interesting.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Charles MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Error Code 127, what a wonderfully helpful message.
>
> I backed up my home directory yesterday, and decided to go for Kubuntu 9.10
> for the new year. I upgraded my Wife's laptop the other day and it seemed to
> go smoothly and so far no issues - even the web cam now suddenly works.
>
> Try to upgrade mine and Kpackagekit gives me error 127.
>
> I try apt-get and make some progress, the Blocked updates I have been seeing
> are now in place.
>
> I think I should stop fiddling today in case I make it worse.
>
> Searching the web I can't even find a definition of "error 127" and the help
> pages show the next step as though it can't help but happen.
>
> sudo apt-get upgrade  and sudo spt-get dist-upgrade now say everything is up
> to date.  Kpackage kit still offers to get 9.10 but stalls in about 2
> seconds with the error 127 andter I agree that this is a long process.
>
> I don't realy know all the ins and outs of apt as I have turned into a GUI
> user since I retired.
>
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