Matthew Miller wrote: >> The upgrade bombed out on a Sony Picturebook (C1VFK) >> while "Reading package information", >> with some kind of Python error. > > Read the release notes. As I explained, I was installing from the hard disk. The only reference I could find to Vaio/Picturebook in the Release Notes was about installation from CD. If you can find any reference in the Release Notes to my case I should be grateful to learn of it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland