Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:49:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do. > > > > mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as > > (or other things, are there

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do. > > mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as > (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to IIRC, there was a post on debian-devel whe

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to see if it applies on my system. Often, the bugs are for different architectures or are things that aren't critical to me and I can safely ignore them. I

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:05:23PM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe > >severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's > >how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt an

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: When installation pauses because of a pending bug, does that always mean that a package should not be installed? Oops I didn't realize that the man page for apt-listbugs sort of explains it. Never mind the simplistic question. :-) -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- T

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt and apt-utils at the current version pending resolution. A The funny thi

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:01:51PM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >what version of apt-get? > > > >check out bug 401263. > > > >Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am > >running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: what version of apt-get? check out bug 401263. Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of possible solutions posted. you may have to use dpkg to manually install an older(or

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote: > Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package > management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help: > > My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or any other > front-end