2011/10/14 Harry Putnam
> Carl-Valentin Schmitt writes:
>
> > Hello Harry Putnam,
> >
> > not sure, what you really mean.
> > Do you mean this ?:
>
> What is that?
>
> > lsb_release -a
>
> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description:Debian GNU/Linux
Harry Putnam writes:
>> not sure, what you really mean.
>> Do you mean this ?:
>
> What is that?
Sorry I suddenly realized you must mean inside the ncurses aptitude.
I rarely use that... its very confusing to work with.
I mostly use the cmdline aspects of aptitude.
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Carl-Valentin Schmitt writes:
> Hello Harry Putnam,
>
> not sure, what you really mean.
> Do you mean this ?:
What is that?
> lsb_release -a
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release:testing
Codename:
Hello Harry Putnam,
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
lsb_release -a
as command ? Try it as user.
Happy Hacking.
Greetings.
dschinn
cv.deb...@gmail.com
2011/10/12 Harry Putnam
> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
> installed. I mean the common
Brian writes:
> Solution to your problem: mark the packages as having been manually
> installed. I don't use aptitude but believe it is capable of doing it.
That looks promising and yes aptitude has that capability as I see it
in the man page.
Thanks for the handy tip. That should get it squar
On 10/12/2011 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Darac Marjal writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you want the version informatio
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 15:52:48 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Does it require a complete start over?
>
> Here is the kind of confusing mess I run into:
>
> sudo aptitude remove xserver-xorg-video-all
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> xserver-xorg-video-all
[Snip]
> Looks prett
Raf Czlonka writes:
> Answering your previous question, there's no way of automating the process
> of auto-discovery of graphic card, therefore if you'd like to run
> a desktop system and install 'task-desktop' (itself not a real package
> but a virtual one, a task which installs other packages)
Sven Joachim writes:
[...]
>> i task-desktop Depends xserver-xorg-video-all
>> ihA xserver-xorg-video-all Depends xserver-xorg-video-ati
>> i A xserver-xorg-video-ati Depends xserver-xorg-video-mach64
>>
>> Note that the output shows `Depends' rather than `Recommends', s
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:50:16PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm still managing to confuse myself.
>
> When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need
> with `aptitude why' It appears to be saying they are needed:
>
>aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-mach64
> i task
On 2011-10-12 21:50 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Raf Czlonka writes:
>
>> You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
>> corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers.
>>
>
> I'm still managing to confuse myself.
>
> When I look at some of the driver
Raf Czlonka writes:
> You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
> corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers.
>
I'm still managing to confuse myself.
When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need
with `aptitude why' It
Joey Hess writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
>> pkg at:
>> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
>>
>> It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must
>> have that information somewhere.
>
> dpkg-quer
Raf Czlonka writes:
> You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
> corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input
> drivers.
Is the only way to tell which correspond with Video card, just picking
them out of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Or is there some trick way to
Tom H writes:
> aptitude search -F '%p %v' xorg
>
> or for all installed packages
>
> aptitude search -F '%p %v' '?installed'
Man, I'm really sorry for having just skated right over all that
information in man aptitude showing how the % operator can be used.
Thanks for point it out
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Joey Hess writes:
[...]
> dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For
> example:
>
> dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n'
>
> (package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous;
> is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2 of foo-9?
Raf Czlonka writes:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It
>> appears the original installation routine has installed a heard of
>> them. 37 in fact.
>
> These are not different xservers - they're xserver-
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
> the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
> fact.
These are not different xservers - they're xserver-related (the main X.org one)
pa
> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
> installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
>
> Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get
> versions',
> which is not suitable for copy/paste:
>
> ,
> |aptitude versions xorg
> |
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Darac Marjal writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
>>> installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
>>
>> If you
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
> pkg at:
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
>
> It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must
> have that information somewhere.
dpkg-query can display the information i
Darac Marjal writes:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
>> installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
>
> If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try "dpkg -l|grep
> '
Brian writes:
> On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
>> the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
>> fact.
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you.
>
>> The list is post
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
> installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try "dpkg -l|grep
'^i'", though I'm not entirely ce
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
> the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
> fact.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you.
> The list is posted at the end. And how can
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get versions',
which is not suitable for copy/paste:
,
|aptitude versions xorg
| ihA 1:7.6+9
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