[conspire] Ubuntu Unable to process updates

[Rick Moen]

Quoting K Sandoval (indigo.kai at gmail.com):
> Quoting Rick Moen
> 
> apt-get update
> 
> or equivalently:
> 
> # aptitude update
> 
> That operation fetches "*Packages" file (and corresponding *Release
> and *Release.gpg files) from the repositories.
> 
> 
> Kai:  Whoa that looks like it worked.  That was so COOL!

OK.  However, I'm sure that the Ubuntu people intend for you to use
some corresponding function within "update-manager" for that purpose:
It's supposed to be a single-piece package management system.  (I'm
unclear on whether it calls dpkg to do actual package insertion and
removal on the local system, but my understanding is that it
_definitely_ doesn't call apt-get or aptitude to fetch packages and
resolve their dependencies.)