----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Crump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Preventing apt-get from removing pkgs while installing others
> David De Graff wrote: > >> > >>What does "apt-get install -t unstable initrd-tools gcc-3.2" give you? > > > > It then says that initrd-tools is the newest version (but does not try to > > remove it), and then tries to remove the kernel image while installing the > > gcc-3.2 and related packages: > > > > > Well, then "apt-get install -t unstable initrd-tools gcc-3.2 > kernel-image-2.4.19-686" should fix your problem. I think that the fact > that you are installing gcc-3.2 is a red herring. Have you tried > installing anything else recently without having this problem? I just installed kernel-source-2.4.19 and started an install of links, and neither time did apt try to remove initrd-tools or kernel-image-2.4.19-686. See install session text at bottom of this message. >Check to > see what dpkg thinks the states of initrd-tools and > kernel-image-2.4.19-686 should be with "dpkg --get-selections | sed > --silent -e '/kernel-image/p' -e '/initrd-tool/p'". I have a feeling > they are set to something other than 'install'... They are set to install, which makes the removal attempts odd. root:/# dpkg --get-selections | sed --silent -e '/kernel-image/p' -e '/initrd-tool/p' initrd-tools install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 install BTW, finding this info is even easier with feta, 'front-end to apt': root:/# feta list initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.19-686 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-========================-========================- ii initrd-tools 0.1.28 Tools to generate an initrd image. ii kernel-image-2.4.19-686 2.4.19-1 Linux kernel image 2.4.19 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. root:/# I recommend checking feta out at: http://www.sacredchao.net/software/feta/ Install session info for other packages: root@coral:/# feta install links Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpmg1 liblua40 liblualib40 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpmg1 liblua40 liblualib40 links 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 484kB of archives. After unpacking 1236kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. W: An error occurred trying to use the 'install' command. W: If you run Feta with -V, more information about the error may be printed. root:/# root:/# apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.19 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-source-2.4.19 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 25.7MB of archives. After unpacking 25.8MB will be used. Get:1 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main kernel-source-2.4.19 2.4.19-1 [25.7MB] Fetched 25.7MB in 35s (718kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package kernel-source-2.4.19. (Reading database ... 13678 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-source-2.4.19 (from .../kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19-1_all.deb) ... Setting up kernel-source-2.4.19 (2.4.19-1) ... root:/# Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
