Re: Package installation from pendrive

2015-01-29 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:30:51 +0100 schreef Rodolfo Medina : Hi all. I installed Debian from a pendrive, everything fine. Now I want to install some packages from there, but the system only accepts CDs for that. If I start the Debian Installer, it wants to format the partition, what I do

Re: Package Installation Problem

2009-03-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 18:04, Kolpur Srinivasa Chary wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Debian 5.0 and I recently changed my repositories to : > >        # Security >        deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib >        non-free >        deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/update

Re: Package Installation Problem

2009-03-01 Thread Chris
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:34:00 +0530 Kolpur Srinivasa Chary wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Debian 5.0 and I recently changed my repositories to : > > # Security > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib > non-free > deb-src http://security.debi

Re: [debian-users] Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-14 Thread Bob Bosiljevac
snip for things I want to do at this session. I want to be selective because I tend to only want to do certain updates after hours, just in case. Yes, you should switch to aptitude. Thank you. That was perfect. It is basically a drop in replacement for how I was using 'apt-get' with th

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > I tend to do my upgrades like this: > > apt-get update -u > > look at the list, and then do > > apt-get install > > for things I want to do at this session. I want to be selective because I > tend to only want to do certain

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:27:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:44:04PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > I have this line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg: > > > > log /var/log/dpkg.log > > > > I did not put it there, so I guess it is the default nowadays (on Sid at > >

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:15:04 +0100 Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12: > > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed > > or upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a > > package on a particular mach

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:44:04PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I have this line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg: > > log /var/log/dpkg.log > > I did not put it there, so I guess it is the default nowadays (on Sid at > least). I don't know if the Sarge version of dpkg already supports this > feature.

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 13:23:03 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > > Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12: > > > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or > > > upgraded or a way to look at the i

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12: > > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or > > upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on > > a particular machine? > > > >

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Thilo Six
Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12: > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or > upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on > a particular machine? > > Bob. less /var/log/dpkg.log HTH Thilo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 22:09:42 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 10.11.2006 at 12:40 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > > >>Is there a way to tell wh

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 10.11.2006 at 12:40 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > >>Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > > >>or a way to

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > >>Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > >>or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a > >>particular mach

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Bob Bosiljevac
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a particular machine? If you are using aptitude, then check /var/log/aptitude. No I do no

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a > particular machine? > If you are using aptitude, then check /var/log/aptitude. Rega

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update'

2006-08-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present >> > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following >> > lines: >> > >> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free >> > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/d

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 16:38:53 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200 > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present > > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following > > lines: > >

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following > lines: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contr

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Gabriel
Ram wrote: Thanks for the response Pete. I did notice some errors during the  upgrade and dist upgrade options. But most unfortunately, there was a power outage before I could capture the errors. So,  if I have to revert everything back to the stable version - Sarge, what are steps that I need

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Ram
Thanks for the response Pete. I did notice some errors during the  upgrade and dist upgrade options. But most unfortunately, there was a power outage before I could capture the errors. So,  if I have to revert everything back to the stable version - Sarge, what are steps that I need to follow ? Few

Re: Package installation errors

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Ram wrote: > Hi all, > i am a new user of linux in general and debian in specific. I recently > updated my system with the following commands : > #apt-get update > #apt-get upgrade > #apt-get dist upgrade > I'm guessing that you upgraded to unstable, wh

Re: Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.

2005-11-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-22 12:04:45, schrieb Niklas Palmqvist: > Hi there. > > Having a problem with a package installation, and I would appreciate some > pointers. > > Running Sarge on a HP pc, P4, 256 Mb ram, ide disc etc. Ihave a sytem AMD Sempron 2400 with 256 MB of memory and if I install something, it

Re: Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.

2005-11-23 Thread Niklas Palmqvist
On 22 Nov 2005 10:31:48 -0800, ponga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wish I had some idea for you... how long did you let the process run,just to see if it would finish? For 5 minutes or so. Anyway, we figured it out, we narrowed it down to one single package. Then we removed some (stale) files in /var

Re: Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.

2005-11-22 Thread ponga
Wish I had some idea for you... how long did you let the process run, just to see if it would finish? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package installation for users?

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Oliver, you wrote : > As it seems, if I'm not root (which I'm not :-), > I'm still stuck with getting the source package > (and possibly its dependencies) >and compiling that myself. for a simple app whose dependencies are already in standard places on system, you can just gra

Re: package installation question

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > what is the "correct" way to install a package thet depends on a library > which I didn't install from a deb but compiled by hand from source? Compiled it by hand? Cor. I use gcc myself :-) > Just download the deb and make

Re: package installation question

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > what is the "correct" way to install a package thet depends on a library > which I didn't install from a deb but compiled by hand from source? > > Just download the deb and make a dpkg --force -i package.deb? Try to avoid

Re: package installation halts

2002-11-01 Thread dave . stinchcombe
Sorry Folks, I do apologise. It's the "Configure Locale" it halts at. Nothing to do with "locate" at all (if it exists). Sorry for the typo. Yours Dave > from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > date:Fri, 01 Nov 2002 21:36:14 > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > su

Re: Package installation error -- What is going on?

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:37:08 -0400, David H . Silber wrote: > **When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt > ** 0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't > ** know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt > ** p

Re: Package installation error -- What is going on?

2001-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
"David H . Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt >0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't >know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt >package. In the meanwhile, I'm

Re: Package Installation Problem (Debian Linux)

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:34:42AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dear Sir, > I have a PC with 20GB Hard disk, 810 Intel Chipset Motherboard and P-III 700 > CPU. > In my hard disk, there are two partition, First partition (i.e Pri. Dos > portion) > contain Windows'98 OS. I have alre

Re: Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > dpkg-deb: file looks like it might be an archive which has been > dpkg-deb:corrupted by being downloaded in ASCII mode > dpkg-deb: `/home/yves/APPLICATIONS/Packages/libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb' is not a > debian format archive > dpkg: error processing > /home/yves/APPL

Re: Package installation templates?

1998-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Mark Burgess wrote: > A good topic for the debain FAQ would be the answer to the following > question. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to mail me their answer > to this also. > > I want to create a standard list of packages which I will then install > on 50 machines without having to go into

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I had been installing the StarOffice3.1 deb package as root, so I tried to redoo it as a regular user, but dpkg said I needed superuser priviliges.So, I tried untarring the tarballs manually according to the mini-howto, but I ran into the same Server Crash no 11 problem when I tried to do the s

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:49:54 +0400, "Timothy M. Hospedales" wrote: > Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch. > I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was > mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I hav > no idea how to enable the

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch. I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I have no idea how to enable the portmapper that the FAQ said I had to do. Where do I start with this? Then

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread David Stern
Hi Timothy, Why not use the .deb with the staroffice tarballs in /tmp? --- Package: staroffice3 Version: 3.1-4 Maintainer: Martin Schulze Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.4-0) Filename: dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/editors/staroffice3_3.1-4 .d

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy M. Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! >I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs >with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). >When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-