Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.or

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.or

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-28 Thread Nick De Graeve
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.or

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-27 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-26 Thread Nick De Graeve
I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several "dpkg: `x' not found on PATH"-errors occured. I followed the instructions in the release notes (http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch- upgrading.en.html): I ran # aptitude upgrade # aptitude install initrd-tool

Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-15 Thread Nick de Graeve
I inherited from my long gone predecessor the administration of an old server running Sarge. It is used for Bugzilla and Mantis and partly as webserver. I'm not very familiar with Debian, I'm a Mandriva man myself, but I'm the only one in the company left that has Linux experience. To keep the sys

Re: How to remove half-configured package?

2005-08-16 Thread Nick de Graeve
David Baron schreef: > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > everytime I try to install > > anything apt-get complains about the half-configured package left from > > the screwed up install: > > Use dpkg directly. One can force the installation or removal or anything els

How to remove half-configured package?

2005-08-16 Thread Nick de Graeve
How can I remove a half-configured package? I ran in some serious problems (as described here: http://groups.google.be/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/3d5ba8066b071e07/b045fbf85edfa41b#b045fbf85edfa41b) . Now I want to upgrade everything but everytime I try to install anything apt-get c

Severe problems after upgrading some packages

2005-08-09 Thread Nick de Graeve
I've ran in some serious problems when I installed/upgrade some packages: upgrade of libc6 failed and now lots of programs won't start anymore: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14 It a