Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:49:33, Camaleón wrote: > > But curious is that some of those packages are not "essential" but are > selected to be unistalled as they were... from OP's log, "apt" and "das", > for instance :-? Don't forget OP is running Ubuntu ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions am

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:55:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 13 dec 10, 14:33:39, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Is the norm for base packages, like this. At least the package manager >> is smart enough to warn you against the operation :-) > > AFAIK this is warning is only done for packages with "

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Lu, 13 dec 10, 14:33:39, Camaleón wrote: > > Is the norm for base packages, like this. At least the package manager is > smart enough to warn you against the operation :-) AFAIK this is warning is only done for packages with "Essential: yes". Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among De

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:55:37 +, Frank Church wrote: > I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more > or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. > > apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Wow, "gcc" is an important package on every linux system: s...@stt008:~$ a

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Lu, 13 dec 10, 10:50:16, Frank Church wrote: > > > > Please ask on Ubuntu lists for help next time. > > Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? Please don't take it the wrong way, it's not that we don't want to help Ubuntu users[1][2], it's just that some of our advices will not work, be compl

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +, Frank Church wrote: > Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? What is wrong with the ubuntu-user support mailing lists? -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On 2010-12-13 11:50 +0100, Frank Church wrote: > Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? Depends on the type of question. In any case, please mention that you are using Ubuntu, and which distribution. > I thought that at this kind of low level Ubuntu and Debian are the same. Except that you woul

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On 13 December 2010 09:54, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-12-13 10:47 +0100, Frank Church wrote: > > > == > > r...@heron01:/usr/src# apt-cache policy libgcc1 > > libgcc1: > > Installed: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 > > Candidate: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 > > Version table

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On 2010-12-13 10:47 +0100, Frank Church wrote: > == > r...@heron01:/usr/src# apt-cache policy libgcc1 > libgcc1: > Installed: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 > Candidate: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 > Version table: > *** 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 0 > 500 http://www.ftp.uni-erl

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On 13 December 2010 08:58, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote: > > > I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more > or > > less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. > > > > apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base > > > > Is that the norm

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote: > I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or > less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. > > apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base > > Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database? My hunch is that

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > - Original message - >> I was paring down my installation and  the command for gcc-4.2-base more >> or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. >> apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-4.2-

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

- Original message - > I was paring down my installation and  the command for gcc-4.2-base more > or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. > apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-4.2-base > Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package data

What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database? r...@sys-1275:~# apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Reading package lists... Done B

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