Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread joseph lockhart
> Interesting stuff all this! > > Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. > I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for > needs. > > Thanks to all. > no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Register

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread SpamHog
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread joseph lockhart
> > i'm also open to suggestions > > Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. > Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be > to prepare > ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue > tools I want?. > After a standard net-install one would just do a > wget and a dpkg. > > As an alterna

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: > I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or > metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - > network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little > more), basic clients for c

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread SpamHog
On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Marcher
SpamHog wrote: > Does anybody keep such a "pure Debian CLI tools" > metapackage or package list or CDD > with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel "standard" selection ~pstandard

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/14/2007 07:02 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothin

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Santos
Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synap

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Daniel Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. > > In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the > package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package > list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the > repository that had that package i

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/12/2007 06:46 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description informati

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Santos
Yes. In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains there because some

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Daniel Santos wrote: > Hello, > > I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. > > I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some > time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows > a lot of uninstalled packages w

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:06:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > note that spaces between search terms means OR, > > i don't think so. from the manpage: > > Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiple > search patterns that are and'd together. yeah, my bad.

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1616 +0100]: > dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of > advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real > easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds > of wacky situations

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
hiya, dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds of wacky situations with your system. if you're looking for packages that do specific th

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:51:09AM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list > of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already > installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not > install for one

Re: Package List

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > > my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL > > installed packages on Debian 2.2?? > > dpkg -l > As this

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread Mike
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL > installed packages on Debian 2.2?? dpkg -l As this tends to be a long list, I usually do instead: dpk

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:49:59PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > > my system. What do I have to do to get a li

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread William Jensen
dpkg -l Wm On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL > installed packages on Debian 2.2?? > > -- > -