On Fri, October 24, 2008 10:07 am, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Let's start with this: > > > what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? I replaced: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main with: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > > what does c say? 3.1 > > what was the release of Debian that was originally installed on this > system? It showed 3.1 when I first logged in. > > I am guessing that you have 'stable' or 'testing' in your sources.list > -- as opposed to potato/sarge/etch -- but have not upgraded any packages > in years. > > -Bart > > > * James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> [081024 10:03]: > >> I am trying to upgrade an old system that is broken. :-( >> >> >> I get stuff like this for lots of packages: >> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `readline-common' >> missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. >> >> apt-get is broken and I installed >> >> gnupg_1.4.6-2_i386.deb with dpkg. >> >> Could not execute '/usr/bin/gpgv' to verify signature (is gnupg >> installed?) >> >> I have: >> /usr/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg-convert-from-106 /usr/bin/gpg-zip >> /usr/bin/gpgsplit >> >> >> but no /usr/bin/gpgv >> > > It said "W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: Could not execute '/usr/bin/gpgv' to verify signature (is gnupg installed?)". grrr, I had to install the package gpgv not gnupg