Ubuntu 10.04 LTS new build aptitude errors
I created another linode 1024 Ubuntu 10.04 image yesterday. I tried to repeat my previous experience by going through the same steps, I did the initial apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and that appeared to go fine. I rebooted and wanted to move on to installing Apache and other things but when I go into sudo aptitude, there are red-highlighted messages that tell me "Suggests 3 installs", and I can examine or apply or look at the next ones (there are 72 of them). Something seems wrong here.
I notice that the /etc/apt/sources.list files are radically different from each other for these two images (the first one for the system that is fine is 22 lines with very few comments, the file on the new image is 56 lines, lots of comments), and there are differences in the actual repositories named.
Is this situation normal ?
How do I get rid of the red-highlighted messages on my new image? (I tried doing an apply on the first suggestions but that resulted in numerous failed install messages and I ended up rebuilding the image again, but am right back at the same situation).
I admit I am not very experienced in Linux maintenance but I have had someone else more experienced review this situation and he is concerned that the new image build is not quite right.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks in advance.
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Can you post your new servers /etc/apt/sources.list content in pastebin.linode.com and give the link
I had since put in a ticket on the support page and had a discussion with a support person. The bottom line is that he demonstrated to me that I could still install packages and that except for these red-highlighted my maintenance process was working fine.
After that discussion, I played around with the 'aptitude' program a little more and (you'll probably roll your eyes), somehow managed to display this list of things (packages) that were being mentioned in the red-highlighted messages. So I told aptitude to NOT flag these things for install (minus sign, g, I think) and the red messages went away.
So I will chalk this up to a learning experience on aptitude and blame myself for panicking about the situation. However, I still don't understand how, on a brand new image build, after doing only an initial apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade, that those things would be red-flagged upon first entering aptitude. I did not select them in any way myself.
Thanks for your interest in helping me. I am satisfied with the status of my server now. Keith.