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Philipp Schadner (philippschadner) wrote : Re: [Bug 659438] Re: Installation/Removal fails because of package which could not be located (failure in apt.Cache.required_download)

He Jon,

thanx for your help - it's fixed now, yeah!

best wishes,

Phü

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From: Jon Pawley <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 659438] Re: Installation/Removal fails because of package which could not be located (failure in apt.Cache.required_download)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:00:52 -0000

Ah, the following has now fixed this for me:

$ sudo apt-get remove
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Ta,

   Jon

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Title:
  Installation/Removal fails because of package which could not be
  located (failure in apt.Cache.required_download)

Status in Aptdaemon:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “python-apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “aptdaemon” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released
Status in “python-apt” source package in Maverick:
  New

Bug description:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
      return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 936, in _simulate_helper
      return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
      pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
  SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the liblua50 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

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