Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
Daniel Burrows wrote: I don't know what the timeline is on that; AFAIK there aren't any 2.6.28 packages anywhere in the archive. In fact, moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 doesn't seem to exist at all in Debian. Maybe y

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:35:56PM -0600, "M. Lewis" was heard to say: > > How can I resolve this dependency? > > Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that > linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: > > moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild > linux-kbuild-2.

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:35, M. Lewis wrote: > > How can I resolve this dependency? > > Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that > linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: > > moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild > linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructur

Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
How can I resolve this dependency? Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26 So how am I to resolve the dependencie

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux > > > installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and giv

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:00 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyhow, I've got my aptitude working again, and I'm profoundly > grateful for the help you and others gave me. The essential problem > was having "stable" instead of "sarge" in my sources.list. Sometime > or other, I will be upg

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Monday 23 June 2008 11:00:52 am Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Daniel! > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [ ] > > > Just to be a little more clear, you can find out exactly what aptitude > > thinks by examining the status flags on the left-hand side of the

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: [ ] > Just to be a little more clear, you can find out exactly what aptitude > thinks by examining the status flags on the left-hand side of the > package list. Normally packages have flags like this: > pi packag

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:44:58PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > > #Broken: 12 Will fr

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Eduardo! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:40:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alan Mackenzie escreveu: > >My /etc/apt/source.list now looks like this: > ># > >#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib >

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Alan Mackenzie escreveu: Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. #/etc/apt/sources.list: ###

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your > > /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. > #/etc/apt/sources.list: > #

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB > > . Using the aptitude command `find broken', it

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > I suspect that your attempt to upgrade python broke your system. If you > > are not an expert with Debian, it is best to stick with a sin

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi again, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/19/2008 02:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >Hi, debian! > >My system: Debian Sarge, with little alteration other than a kernel > >upgrade (to 2.6.8). > >I currently have aptitude 0.2.15.9 compiled at Apr 7 2005 13:32:48

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/19/2008 02:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, debian! My system: Debian Sarge, with little alteration other than a kernel upgrade (to 2.6.8). I currently have aptitude 0.2.15.9 compiled at Apr 7 2005 13:32:48. I am having severe problems with it, and have become totally confused. I start

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB > > . Using the aptitude command `find broken', it reports, amongst others, > vim as being broken, giving as further details: > > *

Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, debian! My system: Debian Sarge, with little alteration other than a kernel upgrade (to 2.6.8). I currently have aptitude 0.2.15.9 compiled at Apr 7 2005 13:32:48. I am having severe problems with it, and have become totally confused. I start aptitude. This status message appears at the t