Update problem

[Bashing-om]

Shobuz99;

Let's see if we can help the package manager make up it's mind.

sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1

seems to fit the requirements:

gnome-terminal-data (>= 2.30)
gnome-terminal-data (< 2.31)

small steps, again ... but getting there

[Shobuz99]

Shobuz99;

Let's see if we can help the package manager make up it's mind.

sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1

seems to fit the requirements:

gnome-terminal-data (>= 2.30)
gnome-terminal-data (< 2.31)

small steps, again ... but getting there

Uh...:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1
[sudo] password for rick: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1
rick@rick-desktop:~$

Hmmm?

Shobuz99

[Bashing-om]

Shobuz99; -???-

Not making any sense to me either !
What results:

apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1
apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data
apt-cache show gnome-terminal-data

Maybe (?) that version _2.30.2-0ubuntu1 is not available, though this: "Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb" says otherwise !

round and around we go, hopefully a spiral; we will get to the end of it.

[Shobuz99]

Shobuz99; -???-

Not making any sense to me either !
What results:

apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1
apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data
apt-cache show gnome-terminal-data

Maybe (?) that version _2.30.2-0ubuntu1 is not available, though this: "Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb" says otherwise !

round and around we go, hopefully a spiral; we will get to the end of it.

Ok. First:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1
rick@rick-desktop:~$

Next:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ apt-cache search gnome-terminal-data
gnome-terminal-data - Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator
rick@rick-desktop:~$

and 3rd:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ apt-cache show gnome-terminal-data
Package: gnome-terminal-data
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 9256
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2)
Recommends: gnome-terminal
Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_2.30.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 90134
MD5sum: 50345a8545a5358bd593f2241bd61317
SHA1: 74b267669b57cb9faac7217dcf0c1ffa98ae3312
SHA256: 8f7ce8cc40249e6f86d79ecc628c17b177f3ea6dc730ebccb39715b1b98e9b8b
Description: Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator
 GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to
 perform the following actions:
  - Access a UNIX shell in the GNOME environment.
  - Run any application that is designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xterm
 terminals.
 .
 This package contains data, help files and localization settings for
 gnome-terminal, the GNOME terminal emulator application.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-netbook

Package: gnome-terminal-data
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 9088
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.29.6-0ubuntu5
Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2)
Recommends: gnome-terminal
Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_2.29.6-0ubuntu5_all.deb
Size: 89756
MD5sum: c1194efd2c14951061a1cbfd66284f7f
SHA1: fbb8acafe0cb07c0c59f446ca365a3960a8e143c
SHA256: 7e18951069f1378ee25fe5b11c4c8750fe8a3c6fb179a07b3bb66fa2590db67f
Description: Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator
 GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to
 perform the following actions:
  - Access a UNIX shell in the GNOME environment.
  - Run any application that is designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xterm
 terminals.
 .
 This package contains data, help files and localization settings for
 gnome-terminal, the GNOME terminal emulator application.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-netbook

rick@rick-desktop:~$

[Bashing-om]

Shobuz99; Sorry for the delay;
Did not timely see your response !

Still not making any sense to me .. I can be blind and terribly afflicted with "tunnel vision" .. but,

What results:

dpkg -l gnome-terminal-data
dpkg -l "gnome-terminal-data*"

see if that gives me an inkling of what is not going on .. and some direction to the process of thought.

sometimes I do wonder, others I just do not know

[Shobuz99]

Shobuz99; Sorry for the delay;
Did not timely see your response !

Still not making any sense to me .. I can be blind and terribly afflicted with "tunnel vision" .. but,

What results:

dpkg -l gnome-terminal-data
dpkg -l "gnome-terminal-data*"

see if that gives me an inkling of what is not going on .. and some direction to the process of thought.

sometimes I do wonder, others I just do not know

Ok. here's the results of both:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ dpkg -l gnome-terminal-data
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  gnome-terminal <none>         (no description available)
rick@rick-desktop:~$ dpkg -l "gnome-terminal-data*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  gnome-terminal <none>         (no description available)
rick@rick-desktop:~$

Ok. Let me first say how much I respect your efforts and your wisdom, because I do.

I am losing patience now, and I thought I'd recommend an idea,
and see if you agree or if not, tell what I would break if I do it.

First, The "openjdk" and "icedtea" issues have come back, as far as I can see.
Why? I don't know.
What I would like to do, since Synaptic and Update Manager are at least functioning to some degree,
is to "Mark those packages for Complete Removal" using Synaptic.

Second, I want to include "gnome-terminal-data" in that group that gets removed.
In my opinion, I should be able to install them from scratch once I reboot and open Synaptic Pkg manager.

Problem: I don't have the experience to know if those two actions will break something beyond fixing.
So, I DON'T want to do either thing if I will suffer irrecoverable damage to 10.04 LTS,
before I have had a chance to backup the data on this drive and install 13.04 Lubuntu or whatever.

Please indulge my overly simplified questions and plans, and let me know if I'm going down the wrong path, ok?

I apologize if this all sounds critical toward you... It's absolutely NOT. I completely trust what you have done for me, so far.
I am just running out of patience. I want to fix this and get busy with backups and moving up.

Honestly and sincerely,

Shobuz99

[bapoumba]

I have not read the whole thread, followed it by notifications.

Do you have ubuntu-desktop installed ?

[Shobuz99]

I have not read the whole thread, followed it by notifications.

Do you have ubuntu-desktop installed ?

What would be the best way to confirm that?
Is it a specific package? If so, I could search the status or info output and look for it.

I'm sure it must be obvious, but I don't know if I have ubuntu-desktop installed..

Let me examine it and I'll write back, or edit an update to this post.

UPDATE: I could not find "ubuntu-desktop" installed as a package when I searched through "status" or "info"
using these commands:

cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | less

OR

ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info | less

Shobuz99

[bapoumba]

It is a meta package :
apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop

[Shobuz99]

It is a meta package :
apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop

Apparently, I DO have ubuntu-desktop installed:

Package: ubuntu-desktop
Priority: optional
Section: metapackages
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: ubuntu-meta
Version: 1.197
Depends: alacarte, alsa-base, alsa-utils, anacron, bc, ca-certificates, checkbox-gtk, cups, cups-bsd, cups-client, dc, desktop-file-utils, doc-base, eog, evince, file-roller, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-filters, gcalctool, gconf-editor, gdebi, gdm, gedit, genisoimage, ghostscript-x, gnome-about, gnome-applets, gnome-control-center, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-media, gnome-menus, gnome-nettool, gnome-panel, gnome-power-manager, gnome-session, gnome-session-canberra, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-system-tools, gnome-terminal, gnome-themes-selected, gnome-themes-ubuntu, gnome-utils, gstreamer0.10-alsa, gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps, gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, gtk2-engines, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, gucharmap, indicator-applet-session, inputattach, language-selector, launchpad-integration, lftp, libgd2-xpm, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgnome2-perl, libpam-ck-connector, libsasl2-modules, libsdl1.2debian, libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio, libxp6, metacity, nautilus, nautilus-sendto, notify-osd, openprinting-ppds, pnm2ppa, pulseaudio, pulseaudio-esound-compat, rarian-compat, screen, screensaver-default-images, seahorse, smbclient, software-center, software-properties-gtk, ssh-askpass-gnome, synaptic, system-config-printer-gnome, ttf-dejavu-core, ttf-freefont, ubuntu-artwork, ubuntu-sounds, unzip, update-manager, update-notifier, wireless-tools, wpasupplicant, x-ttcidfont-conf, xdg-user-dirs, xdg-user-dirs-gtk, xkb-data, xorg, xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-gl, xterm, yelp, zenity, zip
Recommends: acpi-support, aisleriot, app-install-data-partner, apport-gtk, avahi-autoipd, avahi-daemon, bluez, bluez-alsa, bluez-cups, bluez-gstreamer, bogofilter, branding-ubuntu, brasero, brltty, brltty-x11, cdparanoia, compiz, computer-janitor-gtk, dvd+rw-tools, empathy, espeak, evolution, evolution-couchdb, evolution-exchange, evolution-indicator, evolution-plugins, evolution-webcal, example-content, f-spot, firefox, firefox-gnome-support, foo2zjs, gbrainy, gcc, gdm-guest-session, gnome-accessibility-themes, gnome-bluetooth, gnome-codec-install, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-mag, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-orca, gnome-screensaver, gnome-sudoku, gnome-user-guide, gnomine, gvfs-fuse, hplip, ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-m17n, ibus-table, im-switch, indicator-messages, jockey-gtk, kerneloops-daemon, laptop-detect, libgail-gnome-module, libgl1-mesa-dri, libnss-mdns, libpam-gnome-keyring, libwmf0.2-7-gtk, linux-headers-generic, make, min12xxw, mousetweaks, nautilus-share, network-manager-gnome, network-manager-pptp, network-manager-pptp-gnome, onboard, openoffice.org-calc, openoffice.org-gnome, openoffice.org-help-en-us, openoffice.org-impress, openoffice.org-math, openoffice.org-style-human, openoffice.org-writer, pcmciautils, pitivi, plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo, plymouth-x11, pm-utils-powersave-policy, policykit-desktop-privileges, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, pulseaudio-module-gconf, pulseaudio-module-x11, pxljr, quadrapassel, rhythmbox, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, simple-scan, speech-dispatcher, splix, telepathy-idle, tomboy, totem, totem-mozilla, transmission-gtk, tsclient, ttf-indic-fonts-core, ttf-kacst-one, ttf-khmeros-core, ttf-lao, ttf-liberation, ttf-punjabi-fonts, ttf-takao-pgothic, ttf-thai-tlwg, ttf-unfonts-core, ttf-wqy-microhei, ubufox, ubuntu-docs, ubuntuone-client-gnome, usb-creator-gtk, vinagre, vino, wodim, xcursor-themes, xdg-utils
Filename: pool/main/u/ubuntu-meta/ubuntu-desktop_1.197_amd64.deb
Size: 31876
MD5sum: 65a745ef6456347d9271036bb47eb5ae
SHA1: 5bccc5fe6d85b059090c35a03161cf840a2ff565
SHA256: 35141b62e136ce5c71fa3578e4a209f38a436709daf45f428adc431f85e6075c
Description: The Ubuntu desktop system
 This package depends on all of the packages in the Ubuntu desktop system
 .
 It is also used to help ensure proper upgrades, so it is recommended that
 it not be removed.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop

rick@rick-desktop:~$

ok. what next?

Shobuz99