Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Martin McCormick wrote: > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I have installed > over time but, of course, do this as automatically as practical > as well as get th

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Martin McCormick wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >> IIRC, According to the documentation, the packages are to be in main >> repository now. > > Very good. It looks like everything else is working as > it should. Many thanks. Since you'd be upgrading to lenny soon (once it is released

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Martin McCormick wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >> Non-us repository went away since sarge or etch, IIRC. Remove it from your >> sources.list. > > I can certainly do that. Did any packages go away with > that or are they somewhere else? IIRC, According to the documentation, the packa

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > IIRC, According to the documentation, the packages are to be in main > repository now. Very good. It looks like everything else is working as it should. Many thanks. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > Non-us repository went away since sarge or etch, IIRC. Remove it from your > sources.list. Thank you. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Martin McCormick wrote: > I tried the upgrade route first and it went about as painlessly > as one could hope on one system. That system is the least > important one to me so I did the upgrade on it first. > > Then it was time to upgrade another which is a little > more important and it has

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
I tried the upgrade route first and it went about as painlessly as one could hope on one system. That system is the least important one to me so I did the upgrade on it first. Then it was time to upgrade another which is a little more important and it has almost gone okay except for the fo

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Reid writes: > On Monday 24 November 2008 21:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > [ Cloning technique... ] > > OK, hit "send" too fast -- I hadn't appreciated that > you are migrating from "Sarge" to "Etchnhalf" while doing > this. > > The package-cloning idea still might work, but I have never >

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Reid writes: > I have done this using > > dpkg --get-selections >file > > ... on the original machine, to record the package state, and > then using the sequence: > > > dpkg --clear-selections > > dpkg --set-selections < file > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > This particular sequence

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 November 2008 21:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2008 15:05, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > > packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I ha

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Carlos Bergero
Martin: First you dont have to reinstall, you can change the soureces.list file, replacing the sarge with etch, and then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, that's will take some time and bandwith, but few things get brocken. Well actually several, didn't work after I upgrad

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 November 2008 15:05, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I have installed > over time but, of course, do this as automat

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by $ apt-cache show tasksel Package: tasksel Version: 1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0) Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/task

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:48:10AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > --- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which > > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installe

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. > > No, not in Debian 2.1 > It will be possible in Debian 2.2 An

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 Ciao, Martin