package plucker 1.8-24 failed to install/upgrade:

[Martin Thompson]

Binary package hint: plucker

Just happened while upgrading to Hardy.

plucker:
  Installed: 1.8-24
  Candidate: 1.8-24
  Version table:
 *** 1.8-24 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 22 07:45:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: plucker 1.8-24
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: plucker
Title: package plucker 1.8-24 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

You should enable hardy-updates, this has been fixed already.

[Martin Thompson (mjthompson)]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:31:58PM -0000 or thereabouts, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 224847 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224847
>
> You should enable hardy-updates, this has been fixed already.

Well, in that case, why doesn;t the upgrader do that for me?

All I did was click the "upgrade me" button. Surely that shouldn't
result in these sorts of errors - especially if they're already fixed?

Cheers,
Martin

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[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

You didn't have gutsy-updates enabled for universe therefore the upgrader respected your choice and didn't enable hardy-updates for universe either.

[Martin Thompson (mjthompson)]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:29:03PM -0000 or thereabouts, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 224847 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224847
>
> You didn't have gutsy-updates enabled for universe therefore the
> upgrader respected your choice and didn't enable hardy-updates for
> universe either.

OK, thanks. That's a bunch of "local slang" I don't understand I'm
afraid - I'm not dim, and I've been hacking since I was about 8 years
old, and using Debian for a good few years now, followed by Ubuntu.
However, nowhere in Adept Manager can I see a mention of "universe" or
"gutsy-updates". Calling it a "choice" is a bit extreme, I don't
recall making a choice about "gutsy-updates" ever!

I have Security updates enabled, recommended updates seems to be
"grey" - what does that mean? And proposed and unsupported updates are
cleared.

I realise you are not "tech support", but I'd like to understand what
I did wrong!

Cheers,
Martin

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  $100.00 to do."

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

No problem, I'll turn this into a question.