Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 20:00, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: So, it looks like what you want is noninteractive, with preseeding. You should probably read the entire man page, as there are lots of ways to tweak the behavior of debconf. Regards, -Roberto Thanks Roberto and Andy. I'll look at debconf and se

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? > As Andy explained, no the "-y" option will not prevent the prompt. The "-y" as you have used it is passed to apt-get and defaults the answers to prompts presente

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 17:48, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and thi

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and this is an upgrade to testing, so…) so I r

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > apt-get -y --show-progress dist-upgrade > > During the dist-upgrade I am presented with the following prompt: > > > Setting up fwupd (1.9.26-2) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf' > ==> File on system crea

Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
I am upgrading a bookworm vm (vmware workstation pro guest, bookworm host) to "testing" (aka trixie/sid) to try it out. Both the guest and host have all of the latest updates. I am using the following commands to perform the upgrade, having already updated sources.list: apt-get -y --

Re: How to request a package update?

2022-12-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:40:35PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug against smartmontools, explain the problem you experienced, > and explain why you think that upgrading to 7.3 is the correct fix. For the record, 7.3 is already in testing (bookworm).

Re: How to request a package update?

2022-12-28 Thread John Hasler
File a bug against smartmontools, explain the problem you experienced, and explain why you think that upgrading to 7.3 is the correct fix. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

How to request a package update?

2022-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
the bug report for an update to 7.3, but I don't know how. The closest I have found is [1,2], which is for a package not in Debian. How do I request a package update or version bump? Thanks in advance. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/RFP [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingFAQ

Re: package-update-indicator not working with Bullseye Mate

2021-02-17 Thread Peter Ehlert
Pardon me. after the latest update this morning it is now working again as expected On 2/17/21 2:36 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I use package-update-indicator with the Mate desktop. It works well on Buster, on several machines that I have and also on several I maintain. I have it set to update

package-update-indicator not working with Bullseye Mate

2021-02-17 Thread Peter Ehlert
I use package-update-indicator with the Mate desktop. It works well on Buster, on several machines that I have and also on several I maintain. I have it set to update every hour, and execute synaptic-pkexec when it shows Red or Yellow. Now, I am testing Bullseye on a couple machines. The tool

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

2016-12-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday, 12/14/16 11:06:52 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

2016-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > > > administrative access acceptable, ev

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday, 12/13/16 02:34:00 PM Henning Follmann wrote: > > Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE > > forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) > > > > As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. > > depending on how often y

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

2016-12-13 Thread Henning Follmann
> > > Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE > forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) > > As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. > depending on how often you want the check to take place): > > 1. Create a file cal

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the > > system. My reasoning is th

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the > system. My reasoning is that by default if the user goes to a "naughty" web > page and some

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday, 12/11/16 02:45:41 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. > > > > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates > > available. I select the package(s) and then I'm ask

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. > > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates > available. I select the package(s) and then I'm asked for authentication. I > type in the root password, but it is rejected

Package update problem...

2016-12-09 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates available. I select the package(s) and then I'm asked for authentication. I type in the root password, but it is rejected. I also try my user password, but that is also rejected. (

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
Kirill Proskurin wrote: > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I > cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general. dpkg is the tool used which u

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kirill Proskurin (olor...@gmail.com): > Hello. > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so > on. I cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google > in

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 06:53:52PM +0300, Kirill Proskurin wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I > cant find any info about this in official docs and

Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread Kirill Proskurin
Hello. I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general. I want to package our in house php code in deb and deploy

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[top-posting fixed] On Jo, 27 ian 11, 19:42:07, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > > The message wording is correct. Assuming by that you mean that my guess was correct, see Christ

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
The message wording is correct. Regards Michael Fothergill > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mail

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 27 ian 11, 15:13:44, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I don't remember getting this kind of warning in the past. I would be > upgrading openoffice and opera (this I think is a non free commercial > browser and maybe that is causing the warning here... not sure and > ttfopensymbol). I got a "

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Christopher Judd
On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:28:00 Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: > > Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list > > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera lenny non-free > > What would the command be to do the key ring installation and

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
> are not signed. you need to install *-keyring packages for that > repositories. > please port your sources.list contents.. Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official amd64

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I just got a message from the package update manager: > > It says" Warning You are about to install software that can't be > authenticated!

weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I just got a message from the package update manager: It says" Warning You are about to install software that can't be authenticated! Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take control of your system." I would be upgrading 25 packages if I click

Re: FPC package update

2008-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:34:06 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 > > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Does the reportbug package i

Re: FPC package update

2008-05-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Does the reportbug package in Debian really work? >>> >> yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/lo

Re: FPC package update

2008-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does the reportbug package in Debian really work? > > yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/log/ > (if needed, replace "exim" with your

Re: FPC package update

2008-05-07 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does the reportbug package in Debian really work? yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/log/ (if needed, replace "exim" with your MTA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

FPC package update

2008-05-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does the reportbug package in Debian really work?? I ask because I have submitted several bugs using it and never got any acknowledgment and the bugs never seem to appear on the website. And the FPC package which was updated today sees the fp-ide

Re: Error messages from recent package update

2005-10-17 Thread Nicolas CANIART
See the thread starting here : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/10/msg00154.html Cordially, Nicolas CANIART. -- I prefer encrypted mail. You can get my PGP public key(s) from : * The MIT's PGP Key Server : http://pgp.mit.edu/ * My homepage : https://caniart.net/~nicolas/identity.h

Error messages from recent package update

2005-10-16 Thread Jim Seymour
This blazes by so quick in the bootup messages that I can't catch it and I can't find it in dmesg, etc. It also appears to be preventing me from using synaptic without using the command line "sudo synaptic". configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration erro

RE: Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Sargent
apt-get install package_you_wish_to_update -Original Message- From: Vivek Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2003 17:09 To: debuser Subject: Package update Hi all, How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages ?? Thanks -- V Kumar -- To

Re: Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Vivek Kumar: > Hi all, > > How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages > ?? apt-get update; apt-get install package -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most tra

Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi all, How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages ?? Thanks -- V Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question on restarting daemons on package update(specifically wu-ftpd)

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm sure this is a dumb question. But i just installed the new wu-ftp (2.6.0-6) from proposed-updates via apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade Just ftp'd to localhost, and checked that it was immune or not. Surprise, the ~{ kills it.. Hmm.. Look up a few lines, and it's still the old date string. S

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound

2000-12-08 Thread Berthold Cogel
"David A. Rogers" wrote: > > Did you modify the modules.conf directly or did you use the > /etc/modutils/sound file? You should always put sound related modules.conf > stuff into /etc/modutils/sound and run update-modules. > > dar That's what I did, but it didn't work. Finally I got the sound

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound

2000-11-30 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Hello! > > I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2, > Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold. > Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32 > packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wan

Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound

2000-11-17 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2, Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold. Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32 packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wants to use IRQ7 and sound isn't working anymore. This

Re: package update log?

1999-08-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:27:36 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > if it exists, It's debian-changes (for stable) and debian-devel-changes (for unstable); both @lists.debian.org. > please just give me the directions to subscribe to it! ;-) http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe HTH,

package update log?

1999-08-13 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was wondering if there's a maillist where the package manteiners post their update log... If not, I think the Debian people could think of that... Just, everytime a package update is uploaded (either to the stable OR unstable distribution) they would send the changelog.DEBIAN

Re: package update listing from dpkg ?

1997-12-09 Thread James Troup
Ken Lauffenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to be able to just get the latest Packages.gz file and > check for updates. I'm looking for a list of updated installed > packages, not available (uninstalled) ones. Ruari-diff does just that; it's currently in Incoming, until it's ins

Re: package update listing from dpkg ?

1997-12-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > Hello, > > I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could > not find an answer: > > Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in > order for it to provide a listing of installed packages th

package update listing from dpkg ?

1997-12-09 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could not find an answer: Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that have been updated? I'm assuming there must be since dselect does this and it'

missing package update descriptions!!!!!!!

1996-05-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'd like to ask the maintainers to post a description of the package updates to debian-users or somewhere in the archive. In the last week or so I upgrded two machines to 1.1 and downloaded about 53Mb of deb packages. However on Saturday I noticed that many of them had been upgraded. It's important