Update Manager Fails

[Jesse Brent Coats]

My Update Manager fails with the following error message:

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
The package 'skype-common' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.

This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

This is most likely a transient problem, please try again later.

This has been going on for many days, so I doubt it is a transient problem.

[Tholley]

Since it is marked for removal, you might look in Synaptic Package Manager and un-install completely from there and see if that fixes the problem.

[boonenoob]

perhaps this will work:


sudo apt-get --purge skype-common

but don't do this till someone else here checks if thats the right command

[boonenoob]

i just checked, and that is not the right command. i left something out. here is the correct command:


sudo apt-get remove --purge skype-common

[Jesse Brent Coats]

Since it is marked for removal, you might look in Synaptic Package Manager and un-install completely from there and see if that fixes the problem.

Thanks! This cleared my problem!

[staib]

And mine! Thanks boonenob, much appreciated ):P