On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:17:39PM -0800, Teunis Peters wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to ask, I'm not really sure so if anyone
> can help, please???
>
> I've been using debian-unstable due to requiring lots of current software
> but have run into a couple of problems:
>
> some packages I've needed to recompile to use different libraries (or
> versions of libraries) keep getting overwritten by dselect...
If you recompile something, either put it in /usr/local or put it on
hold ('=' in dselect).
> Also trafstats won't uninstall. Or install. And it halts dselect every
> time... *sigh*. I haven't manage to find anything to even suggest -why-
> it's refusing to do this... suggestions?
http://bugs.debian.org/trafstats
The package is pretty buggy at the moment ... it *is* possible to
recover, but difficult. Try these steps:
* Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/trafstats.config and remove the line
referring to trafstats/nodaemon.
* Do the same to /var/lib/dpkg/info/trafstats.postinst.
* Edit /etc/init.d/trafstats and add '|| true' to the end of the line
starting with 'unset'.
* Run 'dpkg --configure trafstats'.
> Also a quick niggle - is there any way to speed up apt's local
> installation database search? Everything's so convoluted in dependancies
> I'm at 315462 files and directories installed *ow* and it takes up to -5-
> minutes on my wee little celeron 400 to search before installing anything.
> maybe I should just quit trying to do updates *deep sigh*
Um, over 300000 files? Install fewer packages. :-)
Seriously, most of the problem lies in dpkg. A friend and I have some
evil plans to speed it up a good bit. Woody's dpkg is much faster than
potato's was, but it still has some serious problems.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
