On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:40:05PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> > muse:~# dpkg -i ~dlc/Desktop/Downloads/perl*.deb
> > (Reading database ... 191117 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace perl-base 5.8.8-12 (using
> > .../perl-base_5.10.0-13_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpa
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> Subject: Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:54:56 -0400
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:49:30AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> > We now need to figu
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 16:32:35 -0400, dlc AT radix DOT net wrote:
> >
> >I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please
> >post the output of the following commands:
> >
> >dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'
> >
> >stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm
> >
> >ls -l
>
>I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please
>post the output of the following commands:
>
>dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>
>stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm
>
>ls -l /usr/share/perl/
>
muse:~# dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'
iU perl 5.10.0
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 23:55:55 -0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> I tried to upgrade my Sid system after having had it shutdown for
> months. Apt-Get downloaded over a thousand packages! I had some
> trouble which resulted in finally using the -f and --fix-missing options
> and now I get the follow
tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:49, Marty wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
> besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up?
I would back up etc as well.
Come to think of it, I might also grab var, and maybe run dpkg-query and save
the output, to make reinstallio
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:49, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up?
>
> I would back up etc as well.
>
> > what would be the advantage of 'rsync'?
>
> It makes perfect copies of directory trees.
is there a problem with 'cp -R'
tom arnall wrote:
besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up?
I would back up etc as well.
what would be the advantage of 'rsync'?
It makes perfect copies of directory trees.
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On Sunday 20 January 2008 15:36, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote:
> >> The simplest solution is to start with a new drive. Unplug and remove
> >> your current drive if it contains anything valuable, put it in a safe
> >> place. As the saying goes,
tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote:
The simplest solution is to start with a new drive. Unplug and remove your
current drive if it contains anything valuable, put it in a safe place. As
the saying goes, when you're stuck in the hole, stop digging.
don't have a
On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know
> > for getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system
> > backed up. When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the
> > installer
tom arnall wrote:
When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know for
getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system backed up.
When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the installer will have
put some kind of home directory on the new system u
When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know for
getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system backed up.
When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the installer will have
put some kind of home directory on the new system under my username.
tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
> Marty,
>
> should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing
> sources.list to the new repository.
Well, fix that. :-)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It's a typical casc
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > Marty,
> >
> > should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing
> > sources.list to the new repository.
>
> Well, fix that. :-)
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> It's a typical cascad
tom arnall wrote:
Marty,
should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing
sources.list to the new repository.
Well, fix that. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It's a typical cascade of errors caused by the first few individual package
dependency
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:03, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:03 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> > 2.6.16.4
>
> I think you should follow the Sarge->Etch upgrade notes, adapting the
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:46:31PM -0500, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> tom arnall wrote:
>> i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
>> 2.6.16.4
>>
>> so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
>> not
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:17, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
> >> tom arnall wrote:
> >> > i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
> >> >
> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> >> > 2.6.16.4
> >> >
> >> > so i did the distr-upgr
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:03 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.16.4
I think you should follow the Sarge->Etch upgrade notes, adapting them
to your somewhat different situation. There are a couple of issue
tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
> i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.16.4
>
> so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
> not fully installed or removed.' i
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> > 2.6.16.4
> >
> > so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
> > not fully installed or removed.' is whe
tom arnall wrote:
i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.6.16.4
so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not
fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrad
Zach wrote:
> If I wish to upgrade a package would I do "upgrade" instead of
> "install" in your example?
> Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning?
>
> Zach
upgrade and install are two different things. "upgrade" looks for a later
version for all the packages that you have already
Zach wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called "preferences" which looks
>> something like this
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
>> Pin-Priority: 600
>>
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
>> Pin-Pr
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 14:16:53 -0400, Zach wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Graham Williams wrote:
[...]
>> Unless you have a specific reason to stay with tetex, might be best to
>> just go with the flow. My observation is that the transition, left to
>> apt-get, works just fine.
>
> Ok and will all my comm
Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> On 7/8/07, Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|> > tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically
|> > and seamlessly
|>
|> Hi Graham,
|>
|> Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong
|> just 1-2 years
If I wish to upgrade a package would I do "upgrade" instead of
"install" in your example?
Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning?
Zach
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On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called "preferences" which looks
something like this
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650
What do the numbers repre
Zach wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just today I
>> wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer
>> versions of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things
>> because when I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I ta
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just today I
wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer versions
of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things because when
I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I take this to be
normal. If
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
>> Zach wrote:
>> I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive.
>> I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple
>> upgrade as a ma
On 7/8/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"upgrade" is extremely conservative and will bail if it encounters
even something as trivial as a new dependency that needs to be
installed. "dist-upgrade" is a much better alternative if you're
tracking unstable or testing; with "upgrade",
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Zach wrote:
> I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive.
> I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple
> upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you trie
On 7/8/07, Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically and seamlessly
Hi Graham,
Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong
just 1-2 years ago. Did all the developers suddenly abandon it? How
strange.
Received Sun 08 Jul 2007 7:23pm +1000 from Jonathan Kaye:
> Zach wrote:
>
> > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Zach,
> >> It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather
> >> than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid the
Zach wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Zach,
>> It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather
>> than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these
>> kinds of problems this way.
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>
> Hi Jonathan
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Zach,
It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather than
dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these kinds of
problems this way.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
Ok, I'm curious though 1) why it
Zach wrote:
> I routinely run apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my
> packages up to date,
> well when I went to do a dist-upgrade today it wants to install many
> texlive-* packages, yet i don't have texlive installed and i don't
> want it installed ! i use tetex for my tex/latex ne
Hey,
That did it... thanks for the help! :-)
goofy
Hi anonymous user 'goofy',
a common approach is to have a utility cd aka live cd like knoppix.
Which this in a cd drive, you would boot to run level 2 or the gui if
you like. From there you would use 'chroot' to access the root partition
of th
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:40:01PM +0100, goofy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During the boot process the BIOS begins by scanning the available
> disks/drives, etc. Since the machine is setup to boot from a floppy first
> and then a drive, I receive the following (there's no boot floppy in the
> driv
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:40:01 +0100
goofy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During the boot process the BIOS begins by scanning the available
> disks/drives, etc. Since the machine is setup to boot from a floppy first
> and then a drive, I receive the following (there's no boot floppy i
Hello,
During the boot process the BIOS begins by scanning the available
disks/drives, etc. Since the machine is setup to boot from a floppy first
and then a drive, I receive the following (there's no boot floppy in the
drive):
Searching for Boot Record from Floppy...Not Found
Searching
goofy wrote:
I performed a dist-upgrade from woody to sarge. Everything seemed to
be fine. After the upgrade the machine was up and running. I
decided to reboot the machine and now it doesn't come up. When the
boot process is trying to load linux it hangs. Possibly the MBR has
been co
Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 08:41 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> Use the grep-dctrl package. Example, to see all packages with
> priority required do
>
> grep-available -Fpriority required -sPackage | less
>
> and you get a list of packages you don't want to mess with. Never
> try to upgrade these packa
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:11:26 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's longer ago I wanted to install a package from source. I
> don't remember what kind of source-tarball I installed by using
> auto-apt, but it was a developer version, the newest available.
Ok, but learn
Am Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2002 22:11 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling:
> How can I directly see that I have to do with a _base_ -package,
> like libc6 or coreutils?
.. that I have to deal with a a _base_ -package...
sorry about my broken english :-(
regards
gerhard
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Am Montag, 30. September 2002 23:08 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils
> > [...]You are about to do something potentially harmful
> > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I s
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:52:06 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
>> though. What does apt-get -u upgrade
>> currently say?
>
> Hello Faheem,
>
> Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten
> the '
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> coreutils
> WARNING: The following essential packages will
Hello Faheem,
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 17:52 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling:
> I don't knoww if it's possible
> to remove it. If it's possible I think I have to reinstall
> shellutils, textutils, and fileutils.
debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dep
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha:
> though. What does apt-get -u upgrade
> currently say?
Hello Faheem,
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten
the 'coreutils-packages' of sarge (shellutils and textutils) with
their newest versions. That means
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:52:42 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> debian:/home/gerhard# apt-cache show coreutils | grep shellutils
> Replaces: textutils, shellutils, fileutils, stat
> Provides: textutils, shellutils, fileutils
>
> I think it's impossible to remove coreutils now.
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:52:42 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:23 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling:
>> What can I do now to progress with dist-upgrade.
> I did
> dpkg --force-overwrite -i shellutils_2.0.12-2_i386.deb
> dpkg --force-overwrite -i textut
Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:23 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling:
> What can I do now to progress with dist-upgrade.
I did
dpkg --force-overwrite -i shellutils_2.0.12-2_i386.deb
dpkg --force-overwrite -i textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb
Now the dist-upgrade is progressing.
coreutils are only available in
On 11/1/2000 Stewart Fallis wrote:
I recently performed an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade to update my
potato packages. On doing this a package age (mtx) gave an error and apt
exits. I have tried purging mtx using dpkg and tried to remove it and put it
on hold using dselect to no avail!
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