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Thread ID: 107021 2010-02-01 05:19:00 What's The Real Diff in SD Cards? SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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854311 2010-02-02 02:34:00 Can you look at the bottom of the synaptic window and see if it lists any broken packages? KarameaDave (15222)
854312 2010-02-02 02:34:00 Ugggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!


APT system reports:
Ordering failed for 1186 packages.
SurferJoe46 (51)
854313 2010-02-02 02:35:00 1814 packages listed, 1165 installed, 0 broken. 1190 to install/upgrade, 49 to remove, 856 MB will be used. SurferJoe46 (51)
854314 2010-02-02 02:39:00 I'm sorry Joe, I am going to have to suggest that either someone
else on here with more knowledge than me tries to help or you go
to the PCLinuxOS Forums and try there, my system works and I am no expert
and I think that's what you need at this point.
www.pclinuxos.com
KarameaDave (15222)
854315 2010-02-02 02:57:00 I'm sorry Joe, I am going to have to suggest that either someone
else on here with more knowledge than me tries to help or you go
to the PCLinuxOS Forums and try there, my system works and I am no expert
and I think that's what you need at this point.
www.pclinuxos.com

I went there a while back and again fairly recently - they treat people like me as blathering idiots because we don't understand line-commands and cannot figure out the lingo.

As it is right now - and I still like PCLOS - those Linux forums are very unfriendly to underlings and there's a total "clique" that won't help nor let you in on their secret handshake.
SurferJoe46 (51)
854316 2010-02-02 03:02:00 I see, haven't been there myself.
Have you got one or more than one repository enabled?
You could just try upgrading Firefox for now and see if it will do that
My synaptic doesn't list KDE4 packages at all you see.
KarameaDave (15222)
854317 2010-02-02 03:16:00 Are any of these Linux User Groups
nearby to you?

www.linux.org

it may be easier to go along to one of them for some basic
know-how face to face.
KarameaDave (15222)
854318 2010-02-02 04:58:00 I see, haven't been there myself.
Have you got one or more than one repository enabled?
You could just try upgrading Firefox for now and see if it will do that
My synaptic doesn't list KDE4 packages at all you see.

I tried multiple and singular repositories - but they all fail in one way or another.

Right now I am running Firefox 2.0.0.3, and I know it's outdated.

So - a few months ago I went and got a Firefox update -= but it's a tarball.bz. -->


firefox-3.5.6(7).tar.bz2

-------and that's where all this update request started - but like I said - it's a purely vertical learning curve if no-one wants to teach one how to do it. All I get is jargon and cryptic answers.


I've said it b4 - Linux geeks /are just unfriendly.

I appreciate your help - as I know I pushed the envelop hard and you were being dragged into unfamiliar territory by me - my bad. So you have been a godsend.

UN-fortunately my experience with L-things is so totally limited that I doubt seriously that I'll ever be anything more than a web-surfer with it, as it's insides are mysterious and full of beasties and dragons.

I went to the Lake Elsinore group a couple of times - but obviously my ineptness and all the questions I asked marked me as someone unfit for enlightenment.

Too bad for them as I was gonna buy the whole group (22 members that night) coffee and Danish at a Starbucks for them afterwards.

They lost, I feel - not me.
SurferJoe46 (51)
854319 2010-02-02 05:09:00 So none of the repositories work?
Did you try the one I mentioned earlier?
The Freebsd one.
This is strange as it works OK here.
is the computer connected to the internet? (stupid question I know but I have to ask)
KarameaDave (15222)
854320 2010-02-02 05:49:00 If you want / need to upgrade or install anything, just use Synaptic (if you don't like apt-get).
If you have the patience to do the upgrades one at a time, things go much easier than via the tarball route, also if you DO strike any grief, the messages do not come so thick and fast, and they tend to make more sense if there is only a single upgrade going on.
R2x1 (4628)
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