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On Friday 09 January 2009 10:02, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/9 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I've just tried to upgrade to 8.04LTS and its gone pear shaped*. > > I now have a package gsfonts that I cant remove or reinstall and any dpkg > > command says it cant do anything because that package is so badly > > corrupted - any ideas how to get rid of it/replace it? > > What release was it running previously? 7.10 (but see later) > How did you start the upgrade? using the graphical update manager .... > > Can you paste exactly what the error is when you:- > > sudo apt-get remove --purge gsfonts > sudo apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts after about 15 goes of : sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo apt-get install gsfonts and several reboots it finally gave up > > > * my last three upgrades have all gone pear shaped on the ubuntu family - > > anyone else have this problem? ... see other mail re swap Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html