On Monday 23 April 2012 20:21:40 Greg Madden wrote:
I would trim your sources list, do you need 'deb-src' entries ? You also have two security entries, i use the ~sqeeze/updates one. Sometimes a when a sources entry fails to connect you can get missing packages/depends.
Thanks! I'll certainly comment out the src lines - as you say, I do not really need them, and can uncomment them if I ever do..
But the two squeeze updates are not in fact the same thing. deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main is, as it says, security, so is necessary.
deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze-updates main is not security - there is no mention of security. It is the replacement for volatile.
Still, I could certainly comment both out temporarily.
I am still baffled as to why the same procedure worked a week or two ago and doesn't work now!!!
Anyway, now to try your suggestions. Thanks for them.
Lisi