On Sat July 13 2024 00:44:10 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > The electric power went out in my building overnight while I was asleep, > having left my laptop running, and when I awoke I couldn't boot it up > again, but was forced to reinstall my system. (And here was I just > congratulating myself on having gone about 8 months without any major > changes, much less disasters.) > > My installation did not go well. Maybe it's because I hadn't done it in > awhile; as well as the fact that I am too busy to be bothered with this > crap just now, yet I still need a working machine in order to keep my life > together. In all, I think I tried 11 times (yes, eleven!) to get my system > reinstalled and reconfigured. It doesn't go so well when there are other > important matters that also claim my attention. > > The problems with reinstallation do not seem to involve Trinity as such. > For some unknown reason, the XFCE desktop has messed up my settings, so > that I was unable to find my network, etc.; so instead, I used MATE to > finish the installation, then installed my TDE packages. After I got to > that stage, I was back in familiar territory, and all seemed to be going > well.... > > Anyway, so I got it up and running, everything looks right, just finishing > up, installing all those other packages that can wait. > > And now, I get this weird error message: > > sudo apt-get -f install > apt-get: symbol lookup error: > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0: undefined symbol: > _ZN11pkgDepCache24IncreaseActionGroupLevelEv, version APTPKG_6.0 > > I don't know what this means, and I am unable to use apt utilities, > apt-get, aptitude, etc. I can still install packages using dpkg, but > without knowing how to solve this problem, it seems pointless to keep on > trying to make it work. Hi Bill, I cannot tell you how that file became corrupt but that is something you need to look at yourself. If your hardware is failing it may not be worth trying more installs. This kind of problem can be fixed by using a web browser, or even a FTP client if a web browser won't run, or even by downloading on another machine and then transferring via a USB stick or other removable media. You will download appropriate version of the apt package from Debian or Ubuntu or whichever distro you are using. "dpkg -s apt | head" will tell you the apt version and architecture you need to download. Once downloaded you can install it using dpkg. This works for most broken packages unless you break something essential like dpkg or libc. For example, if I needed to fix my Debian apt I would browse to "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/"; and then click down through pool, main, a, apt, and then download apt_2.6.1_amd64.deb but you may be using a different distro, version, or architecture. --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
