Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Dan Griswold
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I find that I'm out of space, here's what I usually do. > > Instead of using dselect, I use apt-get. It generally wants to pull > fewer packages down. If it all fits, great. After they install, I > "sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb" to free up dis

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Kent West
On 14-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find > out that I don't have the space to actually install them. How > can I "unselect all"? When I find that I'm out of space, here's what I usually do. Instead of using dselect, I use apt-get. It ge

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:54:49PM -0600, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I > don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? You can unselect a whole section, including the one marked "Available packages (

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I > don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? > > 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at > home, Woody for PPC at work

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I > don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? > see the help. 'R' reverts the options, 'Q' forces exit, Control-C exits without saving, 'del' is the o

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Jeff
Paul F. Pearson, 2002-Mar-13 18:54 -0600: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I > don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? You don't want to unselect "all" of the packages, just the ones you don't have the space for...right?

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Angus D Madden
Paul F. Pearson, Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:54:49PM -0600: > 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at > home, Woody for PPC at work). My home computer's access to the net is at > approx. 30Kb/sec - not a good option for doing an internet install. I > don't see any is

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:54, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I > don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? > > 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at > home, Woody fo

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread timothy bauscher
<> I think Linuxiso.org has some Woody ISOs. I am not sure if they are the most recent, but I am sure you can find some at Debian Planet. or here: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing (==timothy==) = 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, an