Re: Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 19:51:58 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > No, it doesn't. I get a number to choose from, but not the one I want. 2.6 What doesn't? What are you referring to? Yoy have broken a thread and given no context for your reply. You may think you know what you mean. We do not. -- T

Re: Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Paul Lavender
No, it doesn't. I get a number to choose from, but not the one I want. 2.6 is there - I'm not sure why, 3.2 - was that the last Wheezy, and 3.16 which is the most recent Jessie, I think. Unfortunately 3.16 doesn't work for me, there are problems in the SATA drivers on my ITX atom board. I'm afra

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 19:24:19 Brian wrote: > On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 18:05:01 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a pre-release > > Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world has moved on and > > the linux-headers-amd64 no longe

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 06:05:01PM +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a > pre-release Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world > has moved on and the linux-headers-amd64 no longer has them. > Does `apt-cache search linux-headers`

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 18:05:01 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a pre-release > Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world has moved on and the > linux-headers-amd64 no longer has them. http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Obsolete Packages

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman wrote: I just ran 'aptitude update' and noticed in Aptitude there is a section called "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages". How come it would list "linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7" as obsolete? Isn't that my kernel? I am running Testing. It is also listing: g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 linux-

Re: obsolete packages

2007-05-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:54:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I'm running Sid. What's the way to find out what packages are obsolete and what they should be replaced with? Your question is pretty vague. What do you mean by obsolete? AFAIK if you remove etch and

Re: obsolete packages

2007-05-27 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:02:25 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:54:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running Sid. > > What's the way to find out what packages are obsolete and what they > > should be replaced with? > > Your question

Re: obsolete packages

2007-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:54:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Sid. > What's the way to find out what packages are obsolete and what they > should be replaced with? Your question is pretty vague. What do you mean by obsolete? AFAIK if you remove etch and lenny from sourc

Re: obsolete packages

2007-05-26 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: > Hi, > > I'm running Sid. > What's the way to find out what packages are obsolete and what they > should be replaced with? # aptitude update Updates de DB of package that repos have avaible. # aptitude upgrade Updates your

Re: Obsolete packages?

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I run debian testing and I was looking under the obsolete and locally created >packages in aptitude, and it appears that a lot of packages I use have been >obsoleted. These include kdebase, all the X packages, and a few others. So i >went to the debian website, and chec

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-09-25 Thread Hansmartin Dettinger
Hi, same prob as mine my solution was: change the access method of dselect. The package-file of dselect is not updated, this is done in the apt-folder. -- > Von: Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Obsolete packages &

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-09-24 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 06:20:01PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 > > release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local > > Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the > Perhaps you sh

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-09-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 > release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional > packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get > rid of this (as these packages are the current versio

Glimpse (Re: obsolete packages in dselect)

2000-05-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete obsolete Gary> packages. I have a couple that I keep around because there's no Gary> replacement in potato. glimpse for example is obsoleted but there's Gary> n

Re: obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
As far as I know obsolete means something as: old, not needed any more or there are better packages to replace this one with. You can remove them if you want to, as long as they don't give any conflicts it won't matter if you leave them on. Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote:

Re: obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15 > > Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete. > What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages? If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete

Re: obsolete packages after potato upgrade...

2000-01-22 Thread John Foster
rich wrote: > > Is it OK to remove all of the packages that dselect calls "obsolete" > after potato upgrade? - I would be careful about that. Some of your custom installed software may need some of the so called "obsolete" package

RE: obsolete packages after potato upgrade...

2000-01-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Generally, yes. Just use dselect to do it. If it bitches about broken dependencies, put it back. Bryan On 21-Jan-2000 rich wrote: > Is it OK to remove all of the packages that dselect calls "obsolete" > after potato upgrade? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >