On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM, baldwin linguas
<baldwinlinguas@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:42 AM, mvrieling <mvrieling@...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My confidence in Linux is hanging by a thread and only my drive to get
>> rid of Windows is keeping it alive. What's wrong?
>>
>> Have tried several times for the past weeks to upgrade all packages
>> (mark all upgrades via Synaptic and/or install KDE, but all I get is
>> "Failed"...
>> Some of the files do download, so my Internet connection is ok.
>>
>> Any solutions for this?
>>
>> Thanks so much in advance
>>
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
>
> What distro are you using?
> Did you run synaptic as root/sudo?
> We need more information...
>
> kthnxbye
> tony
>
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Actually, I would suggest you open a terminal and do
$ su
Password:
# apt-get update
(stuff........)
# apt-get upgrade


Then let us know what it says.
Of course, if you are using Ubuntu or any deb based distro, you would do simply
$ sudo apt-get update
.......
$ sudo apt-get upgrade


good luck
tony

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