Nexenta on Mac via VMWare Fusion - can't update

[s***@pobox.com]

I'm experimenting with VMWare Fusion on my Mac. I have installed a few
different OS's a couple different times. At the moment I'm running
NexentaOS as one of my virtual hosts. I'm new to this distribution, but
familiar with Solaris 10 as a user and a long while ago as an admin. (My
goal is to reproduce something similar to the Solaris environment we have at
work on my Mac. ;-)

The Software Updates dialog says I have 251 updates available, but when I
try to install them it churns for a moment then reports

Attempt to apt-get some of the core packages (...) detected!
Please use apt-clone(8) for Nexenta SUNW ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-clone -c returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-clone -c
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

(Apologies for any typos. I've yet to figure out if I can copy/paste
between a virtual machine and Mac OS X.)

So, how do I get around this problem? The man page only says that apt-clone
returns 1 on error, but doesn't give any potential errors.

Thx,

[Erast Benson]

Just run something like:

$ sudo apt-get install dpkg apt
$ sudo apt-clone dist-upgrade

Post by s***@pobox.com
I'm experimenting with VMWare Fusion on my Mac. I have installed a few
different OS's a couple different times. At the moment I'm running
NexentaOS as one of my virtual hosts. I'm new to this distribution, but
familiar with Solaris 10 as a user and a long while ago as an admin. (My
goal is to reproduce something similar to the Solaris environment we have at
work on my Mac. ;-)
The Software Updates dialog says I have 251 updates available, but when I
try to install them it churns for a moment then reports
Attempt to apt-get some of the core packages (...) detected!
Please use apt-clone(8) for Nexenta SUNW ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-clone -c returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-clone -c
(Apologies for any typos. I've yet to figure out if I can copy/paste
between a virtual machine and Mac OS X.)
So, how do I get around this problem? The man page only says that apt-clone
returns 1 on error, but doesn't give any potential errors.
Thx,