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Sambo_
June 12th, 2009, 09:34 AM
System: Ubuntu 8.04 running under a VMWare Server v2 Virtual Machine.

Hi,

When I run the Update Manager I get the following message:

'Not all updates can be installed.' 'Run a partial upgrade to install as many updates as possible' and the options to 'Partial Upgrade' or 'Close'.

I tried a 'Partial Upgrade' but it installed everything (I guess), including the latest version of Dan's Guardian which I don't want to install right now for various reasons. So I recovered from backups (virtual disk) and tried 'Close' so that I could de-select the DG update and install the others. However when I click 'Close', the updates are ghosted / greyed out and I can't unselect DG (or anything else for that matter).

Anyone have any ideas how I can get around this issue? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Sam.

Sambo_
July 14th, 2009, 02:17 AM
Anyone? Any suggestions welcome!

ptn107
July 14th, 2009, 04:53 AM
Verify that your /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this one (get rid of any non-official repositories):

http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/m56464172

and try again:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade

Sambo_
October 28th, 2009, 08:26 AM
Verify that your /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this one (get rid of any non-official repositories):

http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/m56464172
Is anyone able to re-post this information? It seems to have expired or something and is no longer available.

Thanks :)

In any case, here are the un-commented lines of my sources.list file:

deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
To my (untrained) eye, this all looks pretty standard to me...