This
can be difficult. The program you are trying to install wants a newer version of a package than the one installed. If the newer one is not in the repositories, you have to risk breaking your system by installing the newer one (and figure out how to do that...) which might have follow on effects on other packages.
Having said that, this 10.04 install has Python v.2.6 in the repos. Have you looked in the software centre to see if there is any python installed at all, and if so, which version?
Mr. Hibba suggested you get a more current version on crossover. Have you tried that?
Regarding this
you mean you can't install anything at all, even packages that have nothing to do with crossover?
First thing is to make sure your internet connection is ok. Second is the chance that the server your machine is trying to connect to has a problem. Try again later is the first step.
When neither of those can be suspected:
Firstly, do you make sure that you only have one program at a time running that is using apt, i.e. you can't have synaptic and the software centre running at the same time, you can't use apt-get in the terminal when either of those is open, you can't use any of them if the update manager is waiting for you to confirm and update.
If you think that apt might be confused, you could try the following commands.
Code:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
causes packages that are waiting to be configured to be configured.
Look at
to read about dpkg, or
Then,
Code:
sudo apt-get update
causes the package list to be updated
and then
Code:
sudo apt-get upgrade
cause all installed packages to be updated to the latest version available. This is not a version upgrade of the OS. That is a different option on apt-get.
For more on apt-get
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