On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Juan Rincon Gonzalez wrote:
> Opensource
We've got lumps of it round the back!
Opensource
Juan Rincon
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:26:54 +0100
Aldo Maggi wrote:
> Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing)
> I've received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to
> be uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
You have to be
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:00:02 +0100, Aldo Maggi wrote:
> Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've
> received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be
> uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
> I've
Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've
received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be
uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
I've thought that as in previous cases (to be frank not recently but
ma
Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've
received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be
uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
I've thought that as in previous cases (to be frank not recently but
ma
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> > I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> > putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> > yesterday it worked well as
John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
> distupgrade and all went as expec
Perhaps using the Aptitude UI (Ncurses TUI) will let you unselect the
currently selected packages.
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I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine.
However after
I was speaking about the integrated aptitude help page, which is
using exactly same interface as info.
ah, now i understand.
at least, i think i do. i'm assuming by "exactly the same interface"
you mean they both take input from and provide output to a terminal?
since that describes practical
Le Dim 27 janvier 2013 17:02, wes davidson a écrit :
> hi morel.
>
> you wrote:
>> Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude.
>>
>
> i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am
> wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be obtained.
Hum... may
On Sun 27 Jan 2013 at 11:02:22 -0500, wes davidson wrote:
> hi morel.
>
> you wrote:
>
> >I do not like info at all: this is a software which pretends to help
> >you, but you have to learn how it works before being able to use it.
>
> when i first read a unix man page twenty years ago, i had a
he lights had probably gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying BEWAR
Le 24.01.2013 22:01, Richard Owlett a écrit :
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged
these
days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now
aptitude.
That depen
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these
days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude.
That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wou
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these
> days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude.
That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wouldn't recommend
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:49:04PM -0800, Arne de Boer wrote:
> sudo bash
>
> apt-get install dpkg dselect
>
> dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkglistOK
>
> dselect
> mess around ;-)
>
> when finished:
>
> dpkg --set-selections < /root/dpkglistOK
sudo bash
apt-get install dpkg dselect
dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkglistOK
dselect
mess around ;-)
when finished:
dpkg --set-selections < /root/dpkglistOK
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22:08AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Have you read the excellent aptitude manual (I think its in package
> aptitude-doc)? Also, be sure to use the curses interface (rather than
> the command-line apt-get replacement).
Not yet, but I'll take a look at it, thanks.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:24:02AM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
>
> > > Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out.
> > >
> >
> > If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks.
>
> That you can figure it out doesn't
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39AM -0600, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> > The "expected" workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes
> > you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes th
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39 -0600, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > But aptitude does *not* remove software without asking -- it just
> > asks in a different place.
>
> How do you know that?
Because he wrote it (aptitu
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> > Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out.
> >
>
> If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks.
That you can figure it out doesn't mean that it doesn't suck.
Maybe I did figure it out but found that
how trace back all the dependencies to figure that
> out? And when you make another change, you have to start all over
> again?
>
> BTW, how do you tell aptitude to tell you what it would do? I just
> started it and couldn't figure that out. I would like to see what it
> woul
r
again?
BTW, how do you tell aptitude to tell you what it would do? I just
started it and couldn't figure that out. I would like to see what it
would do without me making any changes.
> The "expected" workflow in dselect is that as you pick each change
> that you want to mak
* lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 18 06:19 -0600]:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:40:54PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer writes:
> > > Let's ask fortune:
> >
> > > $ fortune debian -m "Andrew Morton"
> > > (/usr/share/ga
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:40:54PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Florian Kulzer writes:
> > Let's ask fortune:
>
> > $ fortune debian -m "Andrew Morton"
> > (/usr/share/games/fortunes/debian)
> > %
> > I was attacked by dselect
ptitude applies the
changes.
The "expected" workflow in dselect is that as you pick each change
that you want to make, dselect jumps to a screen where it tells you all
the other changes it's about to make because they were required by what
you just did. If you like them, you confi
Florian Kulzer writes:
> Let's ask fortune:
> $ fortune debian -m "Andrew Morton"
> (/usr/share/games/fortunes/debian)
> %
> I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided
> debian.
>-- Andrew Morton
> %
I met with it as a
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:05:48 -0600, lee wrote:
[...]
> Why shouldn't using dselect be recommended?
Let's ask fortune:
$ fortune debian -m "Andrew Morton"
(/usr/share/games/fortunes/debian)
%
I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided
debian.
be installed because of deps). It didn't let me see what is actually
selected for installation. Trying to change a selection yielded
arbitrary changes in the list. Aptitude seemed to want to totally mess
up the installation because it didn't seem to know anything about what
had been installed
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:33:35PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes,
however, I install programs using dselect.
After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:33:35PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes,
> however, I install programs using dselect.
>
> After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get updat
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes,
> however, I install programs using dselect.
>
> After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get update/upgrade,
> I got the following message while runni
I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes,
however, I install programs using dselect.
After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get update/upgrade,
I got the following message while running dselect:
The following packages will be upgraded:
openssh
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
Thanks for the input - I asked because I thought I'd seen warnings about
using aptitude after using dselect since installation. I am using
aptitude now without apparent issue, although my system is
artin Waller wrote:
> > > > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > > > having used dselect up to now?
> > >
> > > Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
> >
> > dpkg seems to rely on
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> Thanks for the input - I asked because I thought I'd seen warnings about
> using aptitude after using dselect since installation. I am using
> aptitude now without apparent issue, although my system isn't a ve
y package manager after
> > > having used dselect up to now?
> >
> > Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
>
> dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
> dpkg: dependency problems preven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes:
> dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
It did a lonnng time ago, but it doesn't anymore.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
> dpkg depends on dselect.
When&#x
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
> Hi Martin!
>
> Martin Waller wrote:
> > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > having used dselect up to now?
>
> Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different dat
Thanks for the input - I asked because I thought I'd seen warnings about
using aptitude after using dselect since installation. I am using
aptitude now without apparent issue, although my system isn't a very
complex setup and I'm on stable.
Martin
Miles Bader wrote:
&quo
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's true, but that wasn't what he asked. Martin wanted to know if it
> is safe to use aptitude after having used dselect up to now, and the
> answer is "no"--unless certain steps are taken in aptitude.
On 10/06/2007 11:24 AM, Márcio H. Parreiras wrote:
On 10/6/07, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
having used dselect up to now?
Thnaks,
Martin
Sure, aptitude is a better tool than dselect.
That&
Hi Martin!
Martin Waller wrote:
> Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> having used dselect up to now?
Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
For a comparison, see Joey Hess' article about aptitude vs. dselect[0].
HTH,
Tobia
On 10/6/07, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> having used dselect up to now?
>
> Thnaks,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
having used dselect up to now?
Thnaks,
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Bill Warren wrote:
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Angelo Bertolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 12/18/2006 10:20 PM
> To: Bill Warren
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect
>
> Bill Warren wro
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>Bill Warren wrote:
>
>
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Angelo Bertolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Mon 12/18/2006 10:20 PM
>>To: Bill Warren
>>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>Subject: Re: Problems wit
-Original Message-
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Sent: Mon 12/18/2006 10:20 PM
To: Bill Warren
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect
Bill Warren wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have dselected phpbb2 and mysql. The
Bill Warren wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have dselected phpbb2 and mysql. The database is done and works.
> When I go to http://mywebsite.com/phpbb the web page I get:
>
> The database module for the database you are using, MySQL, is not
> available. Please (re)install the php4-mysql package or if it's
Hello,
I have dselected phpbb2 and mysql. The database is done and works. When I go to
http://mywebsite.com/phpbb the web page I get:
The database module for the database you are using, MySQL, is not available.
Please (re)install the php4-mysql package or if it's already installed, add
extensi
Dont know what that is , but I do know I cant get on your site
Scott t.
Parr
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:49:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
> >
> > mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
> > (or other things, are there
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
>
> mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
> (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to
IIRC, there was a post on debian-devel whe
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
(or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to
see if it applies on my system. Often, the bugs are for different
architectures or are things that aren't critical to me and I can
safely ignore them. I
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:05:23PM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe
> >severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's
> >how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt an
José Alburquerque wrote:
When installation pauses because of a pending bug, does that always
mean that a package should not be installed?
Oops I didn't realize that the man page for apt-listbugs sort of
explains it. Never mind the simplistic question. :-)
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe
severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's
how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt and apt-utils at the
current version pending resolution.
A
The funny thi
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:01:51PM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >what version of apt-get?
> >
> >check out bug 401263.
> >
> >Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am
> >running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
what version of apt-get?
check out bug 401263.
Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am
running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of
possible solutions posted.
you may have to use dpkg to manually install an older(or
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
> Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package
> management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help:
>
> My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or a
Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package
management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help:
My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or any other
front-end to apt.
I can manually download packages and successfully in
I cannot seem to find an option to have dselect log any adds, changes,
deletes to my system.
The FAQ seems to say that there is a --log-options option for dpkg, but it
doesn't work
and the log /var/log/dpkg.log line described is ignored by dpkg, except to
throw an error.
How do folks trac
[KS] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to
> see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything,
> so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.
>
> I was u
Hello,
I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to
see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything,
so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.
I was upgrading my system using dselect and after purg
Hi,
I describe a partial solution and the next problem below.
David Kirchner wrote:
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
to create the lockfile it wa
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
>
> but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
> to create the lockfile it wants to?
I'm not sure where it would put the lockfile, but you
backup and keep coming across sub-directories
of /var that some program or other cannot find. A full hierarchy of /var
from a clean minimal Sarge installation would be welcome.
My most immediate problem is that dselect won't let me upgrade anything
because when I tell it to update, it re
On Nov 02 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even
> after carefully reading what docs I could find.
Exactly the same situation in which I found myself! Way too confusing
for day to day use. And, then, some heretic people s
Hi and thanks for everyone's feedback and the suggestions/encouragement
to use aptitude.
I first learned dselect when starting with Debian several years ago.
Due to discussions like this, people tipped me off to apt-get and I
started making good use of that over the past couple years. I&#x
ate;apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'dselect'.
>
> Just curious about this. For instance, apt-get shows me
>
> 245 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 36 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> whereas dselect yie
Forget dselect. Debian has moved to aptitude. I think it's very nice.
Take a look at the man page. Takes about 5 min to learn. Very handy if you
run unstable.
- Original Message -
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 200
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed,
even after carefully reading what docs I could find.
My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague.
--- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
>
-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'dselect'.
>
> Just curious about this. For instance, apt-get shows me
>
> 245 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 36 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> whereas dsel
Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
looking for quick responses.
I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates
today.
When I run
apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade
I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'ds
Having just installed sarge from dvd, how do I make dpkg/dselect see
the complete list of available packages, and not just those already
installed by apt-get/aptitude?
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On (03/08/05 11:47), H. S. wrote:
> If I do an update using dselect and it reports that n packages will be
> installed and nnn will be removed, and I abort dselect (thinking to do
> it later hoping newer packages will resolve the issue), I notice that
> the next time if I start dsel
Hi,
If I do an update using dselect and it reports that n packages will be
installed and nnn will be removed, and I abort dselect (thinking to do
it later hoping newer packages will resolve the issue), I notice that
the next time if I start dselect it still remembers which packages it
wanted to
On (01/08/05 07:49), Martin McCormick wrote:
> I posted about this last week and got no response so I will
> try a shorter version.
>
> I have upgraded 3 systems to sarge from woody. All 3 systems
> exhibit the same behavior when running dselect either over the n
I posted about this last week and got no response so I will
try a shorter version.
I have upgraded 3 systems to sarge from woody. All 3 systems
exhibit the same behavior when running dselect either over the network
or via serial console.
dselect starts normally but when
I have upgraded 3 systems to Sarge and each one exhibits a
peculiar behavior when running dselect. It occurs only in the main
and conflict resolution menus and looks like:
Help:pIntroductionptopconflict/dependencypresolutionpsub-listppp
Tupu~tu~sys~v|ystprus|uty~p}py
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:39:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> [Using Debian 3.1 Etch]
>
> I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to
> install a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb
> available on the auth
Dear friends:
[Using Debian 3.1 Etch]
I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to install
a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb available on the
author's site. In fact, I downloaded an earlier and a later version:
kradio_0.3.0-snapshot-20
rectly.
2.
Athlon 1.7GHz
Installs correctly from the DVD's. On trying to install Zope using Aptitude
or dselect only the installed material is displayed. A search returns a null
result. No problem with the "Woody" CD's on the same machine. This problem
ocurs during the installa
e sure the work system gets upgraded soon and that
will probably make dselect safe to use again.
Many thanks.
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what
happened, but I last week trashed my system at home while doing a
rather innocent upgrade based upon what dselect computed needed to be
done while installing a single package.
I don't think your problem is with dselect but with your apt configuration
(assuming you have dselect set up to us
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:06 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Today, here at work, I was going to install bittorrent on ta
> Debian system and I used dselect to list the packages in order to find
> bittorrent. It found it and I started to install from there except I
> saw that
are gotchas. I am not sure exactly what
> happened, but I last week trashed my system at home while doing a
> rather innocent upgrade based upon what dselect computed needed to be
> done while installing a single package. I wasn't paying attention
> closely enough because things us
week trashed my system at home while doing a
rather innocent upgrade based upon what dselect computed needed to be
done while installing a single package. I wasn't paying attention
closely enough because things usually work perfectly and what happened
was that a large number of packages got re
Hi Stephen,
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:18:08PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
> When running dselect it now wants to download about 80mB, remove programs I
> want and install new programs when I go to install..
> How do I tell it to leave the system as it is?
Don't run it?
Hi All,
When running dselect it now wants to download about 80mB, remove programs I
want and install new programs when I go to install..
How do I tell it to leave the system as it is?
Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Stephen Grant Brown
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On 27/05/05 11:53 rich lott wrote:
Thanks, these work a treat! I notice that synaptic likes to have deborphans
installed...
On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:58, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
You can also use debfoster or deborphans to see any clutter in your
installation.
deborphan !!! (No s)
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Thanks, these work a treat! I notice that synaptic likes to have deborphans
installed...
On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:58, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> You can also use debfoster or deborphans to see any clutter in your
> installation.
>
> Greetings,
> Ionut
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easy to select packages.
That's also my experience with Synaptic, although I find it just as easy to
select packages with aptitude.
> However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another
> system and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only
> install
On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:07 am, rich lott wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to
> search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed
> (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages.
>
> Howeve
> However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another system
> and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only installed in
> order to satisfy dependencies, when I removed the package which required
> them. This seems like a genious thing to do, and sy
Hi
I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to search
the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed (dependencies etc)
and easy to select packages.
However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another system
and not
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:25 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools,
> but I have a couple of questions for the experts here:
>
> (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are
> currently instal
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