Problem in Terminal
 

hiii...

I have a problem with terninal, I can't upgrade or install any app..

hope someone find a solution for this problem......


here's an output of terminal:

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Bumping...
What happens if you run 'apt-get update'?

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apt-get update:

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I can't believe, people keep doing apt-get upgrade. Who tells them to do that? Might as well ask them to double click the exe file in order to install this or that,,,

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The only error message I know of the OP is the ldconfig one, that is, AFAIK ldconfig belongs to the libc6 package. The other packages I know, but how they got messed up, no clue.

Apparently packages have been removed before that are needed now. Unless you know what package had files like "install-info" and such, I don't know how to solve it.

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Well, I do keep doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" in order to update the packages. Sometimes, I use aptitude instead of directly calling apt-get.
And when I need to install something on Windows machine, the steps often are: download, check on virustotal, double-click the exe file.
Since libc6 package has some files lost, "apt-get install libc6" could be attempted. However, since dpkg seems to be unable to work due to these errors, the user might have to unpack libc6 manually, to get ldconfig in the filesystem.

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I think what anthonie was referring to, was that apt-get upgrade often does bad things, and or leaves things incomplete. Using apt-get directly in Maemo is only recommended if you know what you're doing, and "knowing what you're doing" isn't the same thing as "knowing what I'm doing if this was exactly like debian or ubuntu".

As for the original issue, things looks very strange indeed. Key programs have gone missing...

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OP seems to be from Syria... OP, could it be possible that your ISP is blocking access to Nokia's servers containing repositories?

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Thats cool for you, but I believe this advice should always be accompanied by a thick hefty disclaimer. It simply isn't the same as a Debian distro. If I got a euro for every thread here on TMO, where things have gone bad for the OP's N900, and somewhere in the thread apt-get upgrade is being mentioned, I could buy myself another N900 second-hand from ebay.

Every time an uneducated person performs apt-get upgrade on a N900, Minerva chuckles and sighs. :D

Possibly, at least worth a try. But that's only one problem we were able to identify. Of the others it is quite unclear what manual measures ought to be taken.

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As root, type "echo $PATH", and post here the exact output.

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If this essential package is broken, something went terribly wrong. It might be necessary and faster to backup and reflash.

Nevertheless, you could try to extract the libc6 package withto fix this issue, but...

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Another thing that might shed some light on the matter, is having a look at the most recent updates performed by dpkg:

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just a side note:
On any Debian based system (including Ubuntu, Maemo, yadda yadda...), always use dist-upgrade instead of upgrade!
In most cases both will do the same but there are some situations where upgrade might break things, especially if you run a release mix (e.g. extras + extras-testing; but frankly virtually any two Maemo repositories combined should be considered a release mix).
In a dependency hell environment like Maemo dist-upgrade might break things too, but if it does upgrade would have broken it anyway (if it wouldn't have, dependency hell had just become yet a bit hotter).

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I've used dist-upgrade for two years without any mayor* problems. On the other hand I believe I know what I'm doing (I've been using Debian for years) and therefore understand what apt want's to tell me.

The main difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that upgrade only updates installed packages to their newest version while dist-upgrade checks whether updated packages have changes in their dependency lists and installs these new dependencies.

If your red warning is true it's even more true for update. dist-upgrade breaking something that upgrade would not have broken is always a clear sign of severe dependency problems in your system and/or repositories that need to be fixed instead of falling back to upgrade and crossing your fingers (which might work for now but will cause further problems in the future).

*) read: I've had broken dependencies but I knew that in advance and I at least had a general idea of how to fix them.

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Thing is, since apt-get isn't meant to be used directly in maemo, and since dependencies and upgrades aren't treated the same way in maemo as in debian, using apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade tries to pretend maemo is debian, which it isn't, and might pull in incompatible packages which otherwise wouldn't get installed when using HAM.

Additionally, there are extra directives that apt-get doesn't understand, but HAM does. Especially when dealing with kernels :)

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In what way is Maemo's package management not Debian and in what way is HAM not just another apt front-end like Synaptic on desktops?
Which directives does HAM use that apt (or dpkg) doesn't understand?

As I said, I'm a Debian user and I've treated Maemo like Debian for the past two years when it comes to package management. I've used HAM once in a while but mainly I've been using apt and I had no unresolvable problems (most weren't even unexpected once I knew in which shape Maemo's repositories are).

Maybe I've been missing something for the past two years which may well be the case since I never brought myself in a position that I couldn't handle (resolve or revert).

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At first thx guys 4 ur replies :)

it shows this:

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here's an output of apt-get install --reinstall -dy libc6:

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hi all,
sorry to interrupt,but i also have a problem in X-terminal.Please help.its not going to able me install/uninstall anything...
Thank u very much in advance.
heres the output of some commands:
after apt-get upgrade
and after apt-get update

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@unexpected : Here you are http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...55&postcount=4

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@Ammar Hamdan
The warning is expected since the keys are expired, blame Nokia.
Try using force-yes option to get the package to your N900

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thank u very much for the help :)
heres the output of first command:
sorry m not a programmer so i cant understand the line below that :p
can u please simply give me codes & i'll put them on terminal :)
thanx again

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Close HAM!

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unexpected:

as root, do

Then run the command you were trying, prior to this error, again.

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@unexpected
Would be easier to take your problem to the dedicated thread, not everyone likes to switch to this thread to look up the commands...

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@dzano HAM was closed

@anthonie
heres the output:



BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian 1.20.2power5+thumb0) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ root


BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian 1.20.2power5+thumb0) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N900:~# cp /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock.backup
Nokia-N900:~# rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Nokia-N900:~# apt-get purge libwrt-api1 qtwrt wrt wrt-api wr
t-api-experimental
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wrt-api-experimental is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qtwrt-experimental: Depends: wrt-experimental (= 1.1tp-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wrt-api-experimental (= 1.1tp-3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Nokia-N900:~#

also tried apt-get -f install but same error

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@michaaa62
posted there :)

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This is clearly wrong (or at least will cause unexpected problems such as the one you have).

My (root) PATH has
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11

Please (again as root), type "cat /root/.profile"

Mine has (typing by hand):
You haven't played with speedpatch and/or batterypatch lately, have you?

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If the PATH is wrongly set, which is clearly the case, then neither dpkg nor apt-get (which will call dpkg anyway) will work at all, so regardless of whatever fancy commands the OP is asked to execute, none will work until he fixes the PATH, which takes all of 1 minute.