On Wednesday 20 November 2013 01:37:42 Brad Alexander wrote:
> Actually, nowadays, I end up having to dist-upgrade to get new
> kernels, etc. Which kind of defeats the *dist* part of dist-upgade.
Aptitude uses full-upgrade. As opposed to safe-upgrade. Semantically
preferable. ;-)
Lisi
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On 2013-11-20, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
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> For a dist-upgrade you should use whatever is advised in the Release
> Notes for that release, regardless of your usual preferences.
That would be the apt tool when upgrading from squeeze to wheezy.
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Excellent. Thanks, Andrei,
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:28:27, Brad Alexander wrote:
> > Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list...
>
> And I'll elaborate on my short reply as promised.
>
> > Way back in the mists of time, around the time
On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:28:27, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list...
And I'll elaborate on my short reply as promised.
> Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I
> asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude..
Brad Alexander wrote:
> Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I
> asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude...
>
> I'm guessing the best practice has changed...?
It has changed back and forth several times. At the present time both
are mos
Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list...
Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I
asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude...
I'm guessing the best practice has changed...?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 17 nov 13, 16:39:10, Neal Murphy wrote:
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> Actually, if efficiency was important, the --purge option would accept a
> regex. Or there'd be a --purgex option.
Behold the power of aptitude
aptitude purge ~c
aptitude purge ~o
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Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Sunday, November 17, 2013 04:20:25 PM Bob Proulx wrote:
> P.S. Yes I know mixing awk and grep is silly since awk can do it all.
>
> dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print$2}' | grep ^lib)
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> I normally would have said this and done it all with awk.
>
> dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |
Curt wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >> "-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
> >> No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not
> >> actually change the system." - http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get=20
> >
> > Isn't needing something like -s too dangerous
On 2013-11-17, Bob Proulx wrote:
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>> "-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
>> No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not
>> actually change the system." - http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get=20
>
> Isn't needing something like -s too dangerous? Wha
I am in a similar situation after upgrading some gnome components to
their packages in experimental. the "gnome" (and related) metapackages
are still at their sid versions, they have versioned dependencies and
I think therefore have been removed. In my case I wait until the
metapackages are updated
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Mark a few of the top level ones and then run autoremove, answer 'n'o.
> > Then pick another top level package and mark it. Then run autoremove
> > again and answer 'n'o again. Repeat until you have marked to keep all
> > of the packages that you want t
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 16:46 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Mark a few of the top level ones and then run autoremove, answer 'n'o.
> Then pick another top level package and mark it. Then run autoremove
> again and answer 'n'o again. Repeat until you have marked to keep all
> of the packages that you w
Brad Alexander wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> (every time I see your avatar, it makes me want to go back and finish up my
> pilot's license. :) )
If you do that then I have done my good deed for the day! :-)
Remember that it is never too late to have a happy childhood.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
(every time I see your avatar, it makes me want to go back and finish up my
pilot's license. :) )
Thanks for your advice. I think the package manager got confused, but I was
able to apt-get install kde-full. It added about half a dozen packages, but
it also brought the ones i was having i
Brad Alexander wrote:
> Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed
> and are no longer required:
> akonadiconsole akregator amor ark avogadro-data blinken blogilo bomber
> bovo
> cantor cervisia crda cvs cvsservice dnsmasq-base dragonplayer easy-rsa
> gnugo
> ..
Have a question about automatic dependencies. I just updated my sid
machine, as more and more of KDE 4.11 was uploaded this week. Well, when I
did, I got the following during the dist-upgrade:
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed
and are no longer required:
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