RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-22 Thread Erik Cummings
March 21, 2007 12:40 PM > To: Erik Cummings > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? > > Erik Cummings wrote: > > - 'ps' output from the period of hung install below. > > - on a whim

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Erik Cummings
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:40 PM > To: Erik Cummings > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? > > Erik Cummings wrote: > &

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
adn't actually chosen all the right things and partitioned correctly! > - Wonder at this point, whether it's better to kill the apt > preconfigure perl process, or to deselect standard??? > - And what should be reported to bugs? It's actually entirely safe to kil

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Erik Cummings
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:48 PM > To: Erik Cummings > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? > > Erik Cummings wrote: > >

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Cummings wrote: > - "Hang" in this incident refers to a system which is completely > responsive (can switch to other vtty's and travel the system), but which > NEVER moves forward in the install process. > > - "Never" in this incident refers to a time period of between 5 > minut

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Erik Cummings
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:27 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? > > Erik Cummings wrote: > > - I've tr

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Cummings wrote: > - I've tried 3 different mirrors, and no difference. Hangs in > the same spot every time (after retrieving 82 of 82 files...). > Also, our internet is blazingly fast...without making ya'll > jealous, the download of all 82 files takes about 3 minutes.

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:12:57PM -0700, Erik Cummings wrote: > Alright - I've asked (and am pursuing) a different problem about my install > not completing if I have any tasks selected (lots of "mirror" problem > references, but I have tried 3 different mirrors about 6-7 times each!). > > The

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Erik Cummings
Solved/Workaround, but information inline below: > > Erik Cummings wrote: > > Alright - I've asked (and am pursuing) a different problem about my > install not completing if I have any tasks selected (lots of "mirror" > problem references, but I have tried 3 different mirrors about 6-7 times > ea

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Erik Cummings
using the hang though. Thanks. Erik > -Original Message- > From: Curt Howland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:50 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: Erik Cummings > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? &g

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 March 2007 05:36, "Erik Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I've installed a few additional packages (part of my "standard" > load) and things are running fine.  I've got no broken > dependencies, etc... > > BUT - I'm havin

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Cummings wrote: > Alright - I've asked (and am pursuing) a different problem about my install > not completing if I have any tasks selected (lots of "mirror" problem > references, but I have tried 3 different mirrors about 6-7 times each!). > >

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:12:57PM -0700, Erik Cummings wrote: > Alright - I've asked (and am pursuing) a different problem about my install > not completing if I have any tasks selected (lots of "mirror" problem > references, but I have tried 3 different mirrors about 6-7 times each!). > > The

Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-19 Thread Erik Cummings
Alright - I've asked (and am pursuing) a different problem about my install not completing if I have any tasks selected (lots of "mirror" problem references, but I have tried 3 different mirrors about 6-7 times each!). The workaround is if I do NOT select the "standard" task and complete the in

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:19:50PM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update > everything and when I do like > > apt-get upgrade calmd > > I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't > want that. > [...] Hi

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Geoff Reidy
Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update > everything and when I do like > > apt-get upgrade calmd > > I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't > want that. > apt-get upgrade will upgrade all packages, try apt-

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
on't > want that. > > I was told I could do it with deselect, but I don't see how. > > Please, some help. > If your system wants to upgrade 400 packages, it has a reason. I'd say that calmd has newer dependencies. This leads me to believe that

apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update everything and when I do like apt-get upgrade calmd I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't want that. I was told I could do it with deselect, but I don't see how. Pl

Re: deselect has no multicd option

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scott wrote: Greetings: I'm obviously new at dselect. I got through it OK on an install but on a restart, I'm fuzzy. I went to choose sources (wanted to add a CDROM set). The dselect for beginners document says to use multi_cd for an access method. My dselect has no such option. Should it? Ho

deselect has no multicd option

2003-09-30 Thread Scott
Greetings: I'm obviously new at dselect. I got through it OK on an install but on a restart, I'm fuzzy. I went to choose sources (wanted to add a CDROM set). The dselect for beginners document says to use multi_cd for an access method. My dselect has no such option. Should it? How do I get i

Error in Deselect (fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Manish
We have a internal Debain mirror in our institute. When I try to perform the operations Update Install The following error message is displayed. apt-config: relocation error: /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3: symbol _ZNSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE4initEPSt15basic_streambufIcS1_E, versio

Re: Error in Deselect (fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:20:23PM +0530, Manish wrote: > We have a internal Debain mirror in our institute. > When I try to perform the operations > > Update > Install > > The following error message is displayed. > > apt-config: relocation error: /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3: symbol >

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Yet another apt/deselect question Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:13:24PM -0500 In reply to:Colin Watson Quoting Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > You didn't update the dselect available

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > You didn't update the dselect available list tho, only apt-get's. try > doing your update like this apt-get update && dselect update, which > updates both lists. No need; just run 'dselect update', which does 'apt-get update' itself a

RE: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Gilger.John
this far, the rest is easy. Just don't spazz out on us now, all you have to do is click the send button. Good luck, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:19 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Yet

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread CinBin3
fucking take me off your mailing list, im sick of getting these fucking emails!

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Yet another apt/deselect question Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:43:23PM -0700 In reply to:Paul Mackinney Quoting Paul Mackinney([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I keep getting the same pattern of behavior from apt and dselect, but I > can't quite figure out what'

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Paul Mackinney
David Roundy muttered: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:54:24AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > > > My questions are: > > > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > > > updating other packages that have nothing to do with

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:54:24AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > My questions are: > > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > > updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? > > apt-get will tell you why, if

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > My questions are: > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with apt-get install > 2. Why isn't smbfs

Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Paul Mackinney
I keep getting the same pattern of behavior from apt and dselect, but I can't quite figure out what's happening. Can someone explain what's going on? I'm running Woody. When I apt-get update; apt-get install, I always get the following message: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remo

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
e, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages > > > >than deselect . > > > > > > Have you run 'dselect update' recently, or have you just been using > > > 'apt-get update'? > > > > Yep , I have done that and do so r

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:52:35 -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages > > >than

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages > >than deselect . > > Have you run 'dselect update' recently, or have you jus

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages >than deselect . Have you run 'dselect update' recently, or have you just been using 'apt-get update'? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages than deselect . Moreover while deselect shows no broken dependencies aptitude shows that some installed packages are broken ("iB" in red). I am perplexed by this. Any ideas what may be going wrong ? Which shoul

Re: deselect - bignner tutorial

2001-03-25 Thread Jason Majors
Look on the debian.org site under documentation. Or if you can't find it there try a search on google. I'd suggest not putting a whole lot on with dselect (I don't like it much), then use one of the apt-get front ends (like gnome-apt) to do your installs. On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:16:18AM -0800,

deselect - bignner tutorial

2001-03-25 Thread Jim Schumate
The Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 for Intel x86, Chapter 3, para.3.2, page 15 states "Besides this document, you'll need the cfdisk (cfdisk.txt) manual page, the fdisk (fdisk.txt) manual page, the dselect Tutorial (dselect -beginner), and the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO." I can't find th

Re: secure Debian installation via deselect over Internet?

2000-06-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:04:57PM -0700, Stan Kaufman wrote: > Once the basic Debian system is installed from floppies and the rest of > the system is to be installed via dselect over the Internet, how does > one do this securely? It seems like all manner of mischief could occur > to the box durin

secure Debian installation via deselect over Internet?

2000-06-04 Thread Stan Kaufman
Once the basic Debian system is installed from floppies and the rest of the system is to be installed via dselect over the Internet, how does one do this securely? It seems like all manner of mischief could occur to the box during the download and install processes before one can configure ipchains

deselect: apt -> 192.168.1.1

2000-02-08 Thread Sean Moran
Fellow Users, Apologies if this post ends up in the wrong list. First time in 18 months of Linuxaholism that I have had to seek group therapy. In the wee hours over the last six weeks, I have downloaded SLINK from ftp.aarnet.edu.au in an effort to save bandwidth over the numerous installs I plan

Re: deselect problems...

1999-11-03 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Ok, I tried to install mpeg123, and gqmpeg. Since I am running potato, > when I went to dselect this stuff (2 days ago) it ran into problem > becuase it couldn't find gnotepad. Now everything seems messed up and > I have no idea how to fix these depend

deselect problems...

1999-11-03 Thread Aaron Solochek
Ok, I tried to install mpeg123, and gqmpeg. Since I am running potato, when I went to dselect this stuff (2 days ago) it ran into problem becuase it couldn't find gnotepad. Now everything seems messed up and I have no idea how to fix these dependancy problems. In the past these types of problems

"dselect" not "deselect", sorry

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
dselect NOT deselect, sorry... John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

deselect help.

1999-06-17 Thread tf
Hey guys. Can someone please point me to some hand-holding dselect documentation? I did want to "remove" sendmail in favor of a newbie-friendlier package, but it removed mc instead. (which I installed with dpkg). Also, the "intro" to mc on the download page said you could call its editor by

Re: help with deselect

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: help with deselect Date: Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 10:23:55PM -0600 In reply to:Tony Quoting Tony([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... > > I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my

help with deselect

1999-02-17 Thread Tony
Hi, It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of Debian.. but every time I try to start installing, I get the message: "Packages yet to be unpacked: 304 in : vim gnushogi xphoon pwgen tcl8.0 tk8.0 libpaperg... d

Re: Deselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-28 Thread Steven Feinstein
Thanks to the two posters. It was the revision. I tried it once but make-kpkg kept failing. I kept forgetting to use --revision instead of -revision. No problems now. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > : On Wed, 27 Jan 1

deselect

1998-08-04 Thread Babs
Can't install anything using dselect error message = /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp.pm line 81, chunk 16. Anyone know how to fix this?? thanks Babs Thanks, Babs, Your Got.Net PC Tech... http://we.got.net -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

FTP not working properly? > deselect

1998-08-03 Thread Kent Andersen
Having same problem here... whats the matter with the FTP sites??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Apt vs deselect question

1998-07-26 Thread RUSSELL COOK
package package-name versionxx.x is being replaced with package-namexx.y. Is this behaviour a consequence of also using apt with deselect? Is the deselect selection criteria overriding the apt-get dist-upgrade function? My sources.list file reads: deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian

Re: deselect & apt

1998-07-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Russ Cook wrote: : using Apt. Apt tells me that over 50 packages are being held back. It : doesn't : tell me why. What does this mean? I assume that "held back" means "not : going to download", but it doesn't tell me if it is because of conflicts, : non-selection,

deselect & apt

1998-07-16 Thread Russ Cook
Greetings All, I have a question regarding the Apt method of access under deselect. I am running Hamm, and periodically try to upgrade my system under deselect using Apt. Apt tells me that over 50 packages are being held back. It doesn't tell me why. What does this mean? I assume

Search in Deselect

1998-07-08 Thread The Gecko
It seems that dselect searches just the package names, is this correct? Is there a way to get dselect to search other fields such as the short and/or long descriptions? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Norris Preyer
"Young, Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanx for the fast replies. > > I'd like to have two emacsen if possible or one that will fit the bill for > both purposes. The machine I'm working on upgrading is going to be an > experimental Amateur radio packet machine and is somewhat minimalist. (48

RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
ow it is catagorized as "obsolete" meaning it is not part of the > current distrubution. > > I'm certain that there must be a way to fix emacs in hamm. Is it by using > Deselect, and just selecting it for upgrade? (a loathsome download > nightmare). Probably the safe

RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Young, Ed
e to try it as long as it will coexist with GNU Emacs. Any comments or caveats or experiences here? My priorities: Emacs (of some variety) X AX25Utils. I also need to be able to compile and do some code development. Thanx, Ed > Subject: Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs > >

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Norris Preyer
atagorized as "obsolete" meaning it is not part of the > current distrubution. > > I'm certain that there must be a way to fix emacs in hamm. Is it by using > Deselect, and just selecting it for upgrade? (a loathsome download > nightmare). On a 28.8k modem it doesn't t

RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Young, Ed
I'm certain that there must be a way to fix emacs in hamm. Is it by using Deselect, and just selecting it for upgrade? (a loathsome download nightmare). Perhaps I should get a clue on the use of dpkg or apt since it seems most on this list avoid deselect in favor of dpkg if only one packag

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Edward J. Young wrote: > > > I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for > packages that are headed as "obsolete", one being emacs. Does this mean > what I think: that emacs 19.34.? is now obsolete because I've upgrade

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Chea Prince
clean install. i had to abandon dselect and use dpkg to remove emacs, then ftp'd xemacs packages and used dpkg to install them. best--c On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Edward J. Young wrote: > > > I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for > packages that are he

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Edward J. Young
I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for packages that are headed as "obsolete", one being emacs. Does this mean what I think: that emacs 19.34.? is now obsolete because I've upgraded around it and now it needs upgrading too? Probobly. There are some

autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Edward J. Young
I have upgraded from 1.3.1 to hamm with some difficulty, but feel like I'm getting there. My latest problem is that when invoking emacs from a console, I get "segmentation fault", and no emacs. I don't believe that emacs was upgraded during the deselect process so I suspec

Re: Deselect

1998-07-04 Thread servis
*-Christopher Barry ( 4 Jul) | Type 'dselect' at the prompt. | | Jonathan Bruce wrote: | | > How do I run deselect after installing Linux? | | Also, you might want to read the Dselect Beginners guide: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/current/dselect.beginn

Re: Deselect

1998-07-04 Thread Christopher Barry
Type 'dselect' at the prompt. Jonathan Bruce wrote: > How do I run deselect after installing Linux? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Deselect

1998-07-04 Thread Jonathan Bruce
How do I run deselect after installing Linux?

Re: Current Mirrors? Was deselect wont ftp

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
t; which supports http is quite > fast."? > > I'm pretty confused about quit a bit of stuff. Was deselect upgraded in the > autoup.sh session to now use apt? Or do I need to add it...?? > Still not sure what the apt method is. I've got alot of docs on this upgra

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
t; Thanx again, > > Ed > No its not dangerous to let dselect do what it wants just potentially tedious, if you have to babysit a few hours of unnecessary downloading. deselect will try to pick stuff that you might not need on your system. Some of this stuff (like emacs) is

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
frozen via ftp. I believe the errors are normal as the script > breaks things and then proceeds to fix them. So I think that part went OK. Yes that sounds normal. > > My question is: > Now I need to run deselect and upgrade the rest of my packages. I've been > followi

RE: Current Mirrors? Was deselect wont ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
;? I'm pretty confused about quit a bit of stuff. Was deselect upgraded in the autoup.sh session to now use apt? Or do I need to add it...?? Still not sure what the apt method is. I've got alot of docs on this upgrade but still haven't figured that out. I see that it is the command line met

RE: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
ts.debian.org > Subject: Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification > > On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Young, Ed wrote: > > > > > I ran the autoup.sh script on my 1.3.1 system and used the option of > having > > the files in the current directory. The script went along

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
frozen via ftp. I believe the errors are normal as the script > breaks things and then proceeds to fix them. So I think that part went OK. > > My question is: > Now I need to run deselect and upgrade the rest of my packages. I've been > following this list and I believe

Re: Deselect won't connect via ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Young, Ed wrote: > > I ran deselect to ftp.debian.org to do a dry run on the upgrade after > running autoup.sh and could not get connected. I passed all the other info > and after choosing directory /debian > and > dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free di

Deselect won't connect via ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
I ran deselect to ftp.debian.org to do a dry run on the upgrade after running autoup.sh and could not get connected. I passed all the other info and after choosing directory /debian and dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib the deselect session kept telling me it couldn&#

ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
breaks things and then proceeds to fix them. So I think that part went OK. My question is: Now I need to run deselect and upgrade the rest of my packages. I've been following this list and I believe that I need to choose: directory /debian and get: dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free

deselect not finding vmlinuz.old

1998-06-04 Thread Shanta McBain
hi Deselect will exit on error that it cannot find the file vmlinuz.old in the base dir. The file shows on a ls. you can mv to a new name. and back but you cant cp it or open it with ae. This effectively stops me from installing most of the packages. what is wrong here and how can I correct it

Re: Deselect locks computer -HAMM

1998-05-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Eddie Seymour wrote: > When running "dselect" in the "install-upgrade" function, the > installer scans down the software list and when it gets to: > "Skipping deselected package hello" > "Skipping deselected package ical" > it hangs up and refuses to doanything or let you brea

Deselect locks computer -HAMM

1998-05-19 Thread Eddie Seymour
When running "dselect" in the "install-upgrade" function, the installer scans down the software list and when it gets to: "Skipping deselected package hello" "Skipping deselected package ical" it hangs up and refuses to doanything or let you break out of the program. This fault is repeatable every

Re: HELP: Deselect lock on Access

1997-12-03 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Albert Hurd wrote: > I just booted my floppy to do another fresh install of 1.3.1. When I choose > Access from the menu, I get-- >unable to open/create access method lockfile: permission denied > > Could anyone tell me what gives, and how to proceed. > Any help would b

HELP: Deselect lock on Access

1997-12-03 Thread Albert Hurd
I just booted my floppy to do another fresh install of 1.3.1. When I choose Access from the menu, I get-- unable to open/create access method lockfile: permission denied Could anyone tell me what gives, and how to proceed. Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > > dselect: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE > > perl: warning: Please check that your

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > dselect: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_

deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Recently I have started getting the following message when running dselect: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset)

Re: deselect

1997-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 09, 1997 at 06:16:49PM -0600, G.V.Livingston II wrote: > I know the ZIP drive mounts properly with "-tmsdos" so I'm not sure what > fs it 'really' has on it. I'm going to test mounting it with "-tvfat" > tonight. I do have vfat support in linux but my original problem stems > fro

Re: deselect

1997-05-09 Thread G.V.Livingston II
e over there. So I guess I'd really rather know how to set up the 'Packages' files and run deselect from a directory structure totally inconsistent with the original Debian mirrors. On 9 May 97 at 17:53, Rick Jones wrote: > > Did you put VFAT in the kernel so dselect ca

Re: deselect

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
Did you put VFAT in the kernel so dselect can read the partition correctly? On Fri, 9 May 1997, G.V.Livingston II wrote: > If I plan to use the deselect program to install packages from a > mounted MSDOS partition (mounted at /e) and I have the packages in > /e/linux/stable,

deselect

1997-05-09 Thread G.V.Livingston II
If I plan to use the deselect program to install packages from a mounted MSDOS partition (mounted at /e) and I have the packages in /e/linux/stable, /e/linux/contrib, & /e/linux/non-free should I edit the 'Packages" files to refelect the new path information? Or will desel

Re: is it me or deselect?

1996-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
> 1) Deselect keeps showing me that the kernel-source- > 2.0.6.deb is available (after repeated Packages updates). > Of course it won't download because it's not there. The mirror sites have been messed up by networking problems, and files are missing. The networking proble

is it me or deselect?

1996-12-07 Thread John D. Thomlinson
First - my apologies to all those working so hard on the bleeding edge, for questions relating to an old version. 1) Deselect keeps showing me that the kernel-source- 2.0.6.deb is available (after repeated Packages updates). Of course it won't download because it's not there. I

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-19 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One solution would be to hade an "unhold" feature, which sets the status > > according to the currently-installed status. > I don't understand this. The 'default' behavior of dpkg-ftp is to _ask_ > the user if they want to get all of the new/updat

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-18 Thread fols9488
> > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > > > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp > > > >install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. > > > > Here, here...I second this. I know you can confirm what to get but > > >

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than

1996-11-18 Thread Paul Christenson
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Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On 15 Nov 1996, Andy Guy wrote: > Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Paul Christenson writes: > > > > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab o

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Andy Guy
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Christenson writes: > > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp > >install, and came up with

Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-15 Thread Brian K Servis
Paul Christenson writes: > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp >install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. (Not bad at work, >but can b