On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
>> On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line en
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Scott Ferguson
wrote:
> On 12/06/11 06:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>
>> This forces me to ask yet another clueless question: When I install a
>> documentation package, like this one, where are the documentation
>> files placed? There is an entry corresponding to the
All the suggestions work.
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On 12/06/11 07:10, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> To see what was delivered:-
>> cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less
>
> Much easier to just use (IMHO):
>
> dpkg -L PKG_NAME
>
> or (if installed):
>
> dlocate -L PKG_NAM
On 06/11/2011 04:25 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20110611_193705, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:05:16, Paul E Condon wrote:
OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question
from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be
mentioned in Debian do
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> To see what was delivered:-
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less
Much easier to just use (IMHO):
dpkg -L PKG_NAME
or (if installed):
dlocate -L PKG_NAME
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On 12/06/11 06:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20110611_193705, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:05:16, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>>
>>> OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question
>>> from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be
>>> mentioned i
On 20110611_193705, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:05:16, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question
> > from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be
> > mentioned in Debian documentation but seemed not to e
On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:05:16, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question
> from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be
> mentioned in Debian documentation but seemed not to exist. My quick
> search indicates that this situatio
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:05:16AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20110611_074343, Lisi wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt
> > > to list all the available packages for
On 20110611_074343, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt
> > > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than
On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt
> > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly
> > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/avail
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt
> to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly
> parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it.
>
Does this do what you want?
a
On 11/06/11 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi
>> about the merits of vi :-)
>
> I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;)
It wasn't meant to be :-)
I
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
> Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi
> about the merits of vi :-)
I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;)
aptitude can do almost everything apt-get/apt-cache can do, but:
+ has very
On 10/06/11 22:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
>>> To find a package I also frequently do something like this:
>>>
>>> yum list available |grep abr_package_name
>>
>> This is either "
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
>> >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no e
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
> >> Giving Debian a whirl now.
> >>
> > [cut]
> >>
>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
>> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
>> Giving Debian a whirl now.
>>
> [cut]
>>
>> yum update
>
> This becomes "apt-get update" in debian.
No. It's not. This
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:08:45PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: is there an equivalent for 'apt-get update'
> (checking for updates without actually installing them)?
"apt-get update" doesn't check for updates without actually installing them: it
updates the local cache o
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 22:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 06 iun 11, 14:39:40, Matt wrote:
> >
> > I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is:
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get upgrade
> >
> > I think anyway? Being used to yum I like there way better. ;-)
>
> Just out of curiosit
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 14:39:40, Matt wrote:
>
> I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> I think anyway? Being used to yum I like there way better. ;-)
Just out of curiosity: is there an equivalent for 'apt-get update'
(checking for updates without
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011 21:25:52 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the
>> aptitude equivalent).
>
> Thanks - I am much more familiar with aptitude.
You're welcome. I use apt-get but the aptitude options make
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:39 -0500, Matt wrote:
> > remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates
> > the
> > database. This caused me considerable confusion. I suggest that you check
> > this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it.
>
> Doing:
>
> yum
On Monday 06 June 2011 21:25:52 Tom H wrote:
> You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the
> aptitude equivalent).
Thanks - I am much more familiar with aptitude. Because aptitude
has "switched" (by recommendation, not by formal instructions) from aptitude
dist-upgrade to ap
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011 20:14:34 Lisi wrote:
>>
>> The fact that you are unfamiliar with apt-get update
>
> should, of course, be apt-get full-upgrade.
You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the
aptitude equivalent).
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
>>
>> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
>> Giving Debian a whirl now.
>>
>> yum update
>
> This becomes "apt-get update" in debian.
No. "apt-get update; apt-g
On Monday 06 June 2011 20:39:40 Matt wrote:
> I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
Yes - but certainly in aptitude (I am more familiar with aptitude than with
apt) it is now recommended to use either aptitude safe-upgrade or aptitude
full-upgrade
> remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates the
> database. This caused me considerable confusion. I suggest that you check
> this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it.
Doing:
yum update
Causes yum to check all installed packages including kerne
On Monday 06 June 2011 20:14:34 Lisi wrote:
> The fact that you are unfamiliar with apt-get update
should, of course, be apt-get full-upgrade. Sorry :-( I'm a lousy typist and
teh keyboard seems to affect my brain.
Lisi
> is not strictly
> relevant here, though if someone who is familiar wit
On Monday 06 June 2011 19:27:24 William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/06/11 at 06:52pm, Lisi wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote:
> > > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
> > > Giving Debian a whirl now.
> >
> > Having made a desultary attempt in teh other di
On 06/06/11 at 06:52pm, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote:
> > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
> > Giving Debian a whirl now.
>
> Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-(
>
> [snip]
> > In Centos when I wa
On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote:
> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
> Giving Debian a whirl now.
Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-(
[snip]
> In Centos when I want to update or add a package I do this:
>
> yum upd
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:03:36 -0500, Matt wrote:
> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. Giving
> Debian a whirl now.
(...)
> Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually get
> offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' I se
On 06/06/2011 05:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
>> Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually
>> get offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update'
>> I seem to get nothing.
>
> Is your sources.list no
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert.
> Giving Debian a whirl now.
>
[cut]
>
> yum update
This becomes "apt-get update" in debian.
>
> or:
>
> yum install package_name
apt-get install package_name
>
> To find
I’d like to thank all those who helped out, Nate, Moops and Rob
Weir, with the two questions I posted below. I was able to get the
SMP kernel 2.4.20 compiled and working after two days of trying. The NIC
problem has reached a new level where I can see the card after ‘ifconfig
–a’. I now
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Reaz Baksh wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can someone please help me with these questions?
>
>
>
> -I have Debian 3.0 running on a dual PIII Compaq. Does Debian recognize
> and utilize both CPUs? Is there a way I can check that Debian does use
> the two chips?
Reaz Baksh said:
> Hello
>
> Can someone please help me with these questions?
>
>
>
> -I have Debian 3.0 running on a dual PIII Compaq. Does Debian recognize
> and utilize both CPUs? Is there a way I can check that Debian does use
> the two chips?
look in the bootup log(hold shift key and press
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:04:37PM +0200
In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject an
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and it doesn't work, because qmail-inject
> is in /usr/sbin and there are no link from the qmail/bin dir. Very
> confusing.
Do you know what was confusing to me when I first tried qmail?
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:58:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What if there wasn't a deb source package. Is there a way to force an
> install and ignore the dependices?
Yes. In fact, I've used qmail before there was a .deb - the solution
then was to use the equivs package. It's ugly but
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 09:16:31AM +0100
In reply to:Martin Bialasinski
Quoting Martin Bialasinski([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> >> "w" == wtopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> w> policy manual. Ok, I ju
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:40:16PM +1100
In reply to:Hamish Moffatt
Quoting Hamish Moffatt([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The stock qmail program itself only goes int
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: > 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
: > installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail. I had a
: > problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my
: > own. Now I want to instal procmai
>> "w" == wtopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
w> policy manual. Ok, I just looked and yes, I do have file-rc
w> installed!(?) How I don't know but its here. Now I have some more
If you want the symlink scheme back, then just deinstall
file-rc. Better check that the symlinks are there before yo
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The stock qmail program itself only goes into /var/qmail, which is how
> I prefer it.
If we installed every upstream program where the stock installation
goes, it would be an extremely difficult system to use and administer.
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:50:51PM +
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> > 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
> > installing, from slink or st
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:43:14PM +0200
In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > because it needs an MTA and
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:06:21PM +0100
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> >> "w" == wtopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> w> 1. The debian policy ma
Subject: Re: Debian Questions
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:43:14PM +0200
In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > because it needs an MTA and
> 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
> installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail. I had a
> problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my
> own. Now I want to instal procmail but, of course, it won't install
> because it needs an
>> "w" == wtopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
w> 1. The debian policy manual Section 3.4 System Run Levels talks about
w> symbolic links in the /etc/rcn.d directories. All of my rc[0-S].d
w> directories are empty. Upateprc.d man page says updates those same
w> directories. It doesn't do that on
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail.
Use the qmail-src package available at a mirror of the non-free
section near you.
Antti-Juhani
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On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
: On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > : 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and
: > : install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make
: > : build". W
>> Um... Okay. I guess what I'm looking for is more of a "core system" sort
> of answer. Id est, I'm wondering how I go about configuring a kernel and
> building userland. Or, is it the case that in Debian *everything* is a
> package? That's sort of an intriguing possibility.
> Is kernel configur
>Hmm. I think bootpart from BSD will do this, and I'm pretty sure LILO
>will. I've used LILO to dual boot Windows and Linux, and bootpart to
>dual boot DOS and BSD. I never have done exactly what you want to do
yes, LILO will do this. My /etc/lilo.conf file boots both, and will
supposedly boo
Mason Loring Bliss writes:
> 3) Is there an equivalent to the NetBSD practise of a nightly sup of
> current sources?
Look at apt, in unstable.
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On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> : 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and
> : install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make
> : build". What's the Debian equivalent?
>
> There isn't one - most Debian
Mason Loring Bliss wrote
> My questions:
>
> 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and
> install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make
> build". What's the Debian equivalent?
Well, the packages are distributed in binary format (hence the
m
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
: What I'd really like is a "Debian for NetBSD People" guide, but, failing
: that, maybe a couple kind souls out there can answer some questions I've
: got.
:
: Note: I'm not running Debian yet - I'm running NetBSD-current - but I
: think I'm g
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