On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:26:18PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > > > I think I have something basically wrong with my system. > > > I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have > > had all sorts of problems with it. > > > > > It seems to me that either something got corrupted during > > the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that > > shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library > > somewhere. > > > > Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove > > 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right > > to me so I don't use it. > > This could be a clue. Use aptitude interactivly; just start it without > any options. If you've never done that before, you may also want the > aptitude user's guide in aptitude-doc. If your package system is > inconsistant you probably don't want to use it to install aptitude-doc. > So use a browser and search on the debian web site for the package, and > download the deb. Then use mc to look inside and run lynx from there. > Don't have mc? Pitty. Debs are sort of a special-format tarball and > there is some way to untar them but I forget how.
dpkg -x some_package.deb /path/to/extraction/destination A
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