Edit: After I rebooted the box everything was fine. Strange. I don't normally leave this machine on and it was after a fresh boot that I tried to update it. I thought "reboot and try again" was the sole domain of Windows.
I love Ubuntu's "Update manager" - well I GUESS I love it. It keeps me up to date which is nice. Except when it doesn't. Turns out that if it fails on ONE of my updates then none of them get installed.
I click on details and evidentially it is crapping out on something to do with mercurial - which I recently installed. The specific message is "error in Version string '1. .1-5.1': version string has embedded spaces." Of course, none of the updates have ANYTHING to do with mercurial, so I can't just uncheck the one that's failing and install the rest of the (109) updates.
I'll eventually get around to fixing this, but it seems like a pretty huge flaw in the update manager. I've read packages in Linux are a huge headache, but I guess now I'm going to find out for real.
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Hey Chad! I found your blog! The only problem I had is that it sounds like you're speaking a foreign language to me! Deutsche, maybe---nay. I'm just glad we can follow your adventures too now.
Tscheuse! (Bye!) Joyce.
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