Re: Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-23 Thread Gionatan Danti
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:51:15 +0200 Gionatan Danti wrote: Using libsystemd0 as an example, apt-cache policy shown the installed packages with score 100, and an available update with score 500. Still, the update was not installed until I manually specified the package on the apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:33:20 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: You've either got a Frankendebian system, or a pin. Or both. Review your sources.list and sources.list.d/* and see if you've mixed different branches, or different operating systems. Or pick a package from the "kept back" list, and do

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 23/09/2022 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following p

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages have been kept back: >

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): > On 8/27/15, David Wright wrote: > > So what depends on python2.6 that won't be satisfied with 2.7? > > > > My wheezy shows libdb5.1:i386 5.1.29-5 and jessie has libdb5.3:i386 > > 5.3.28-9 > > (assuming they're related). Neither has python2.6. > How would

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-28 Thread Martin T
On 8/27/15, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): >> Hi, >> >> as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case >> package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade >> requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with >> apt-ge

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case > package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade > requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with > apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Martin T wrote on 08/27/2015 08:08 AM: > > Now for some reason "db5.1-util" package is kept back despite the fact > that I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade": > I did an upgrade yesterday, and saw the same thing. Experience suggests to me that it's a packaging dependency inconsistency somewhere an

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/24/14, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. >> >> There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next >> time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logo

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. > > There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next > time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout > (I work on cmd line here and th

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 13:52:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > > When you are happy with the script, create an initscript for it that > *starts* in runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown). Pitch it to happen > sometime between X (and other user-facing services) stopping and the > network going down. Not sure if t

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt http://linux.101hacks.com/unix/shutdown/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:08:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) > > runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further > information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt > http://li

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:40:26AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. > > There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next > time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout > (I work on cmd line her

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-05-03 Thread Javier Parapar
BTW by installing phonon-backend-null the dist-upgrade can be performed, but no audio or video could be generated meanwhile a proper backend is not installed. -- Javier Parapar

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-05-03 Thread Javier Parapar
Same situation here, I've tried with several updated mirrors ( http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) and no difference. According to this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669278 should we expect any update in the repositories soon? Regards, -- Javier Parapar

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Indulekha
Amrish Purohit wrote: > I have repeated same with latest 6.0.4 kde live dvd, but getting the > saem result. > Hmmm. Did you run "apt-get update" after changing your sources.list? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... > >500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > >N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and tr

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-17 Thread Amrish Purohit
I have repeated same with latest 6.0.4 kde live dvd, but getting the saem result. This time I have added only for repositories as listed below ## Debian Main Repos deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib ## De

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-16 Thread Amrish Purohit
On 04/13/2012 01:29 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ Please turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] I have turned of HTML part. Sorry for inconvenience. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: Hi, I installed debian stable kde with live cd "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-deskt

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > Hi, > I installed debian stable kde with live cd > "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso". My PC was not connected > with internet, so after the installation, my source.list file

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12/04/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hi, please, avoid using html formatting when posting, it's very hard to > read under some clients, thanks. > >> I installed debian stable kde with live cd >> "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > Hi, Hi, please, avoid using html formatting when posting, it's very hard to read under some clients, thanks. > I installed debian stable kde with live cd > "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso". My PC was not connected with > inter

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Amrish Purohit
Yes, I tried with that, but still dist-upgrade fails with same error. thanks. Amrish On 04/12/2012 05:57 PM, Daniel Koch wrote: Have you tried disabling all 3rd party repositories first ? Am 12. April 2012 11:18 schrieb Amrish Purohit mailto:amrish.dis...@gmail.com>>: Hi, I installed

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Daniel Koch
Have you tried disabling all 3rd party repositories first ? Am 12. April 2012 11:18 schrieb Amrish Purohit : > Hi, > I installed debian stable kde with live cd > "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso". My PC was not connected with > internet, so after the installation, my source.list file was

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: > I think I have reached a dead-end and may have to restore from > partimage backup. Sigh. Oh well. On the bright side at least you have a full backup. :-) > I worked through Bob's recommendations:- :-) >* apt-get dist-upgrade >* E: Internal Error, Could not perform immedi

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-19 Thread Alex
I think I have reached a dead-end and may have to restore from partimage backup. I worked through Bob's recommendations:- * apt-show-versions | grep -v -e uptodate -e linux-image -e keyring * Uninstalled / removed any packages that were out of kilter with the rest of the up-to-date s

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: >* Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system > partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to > another in case of emergency), it is not a problem to restore that > and start again, if you think that would be the best course and >

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Alex
Hi Bob, Thank you very much for the prompt and very comprehensive reply. There are some questions and comments arising, please:- * Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to another in case of emerge

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) Too late now but before upgrading I think it is advisable to look at the output of apt-show-versions and clean up packages that are no longer available. Even though you were fully up to date with Lenny there were pro

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

2008-07-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Achim Bode wrote: Hugo wrote: Achim Bode wrote: Hi, I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list, performed a apt-get upgrade and be informed that some package will be removed. gallery2 concerns me in particular since it not obsolete in testing.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

2008-07-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,14.Jul.08, 19:44:21, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > The following packages will be REMOVED > > firefox gallery2 gimp gimp-helpbrowser gimp-print gnome gnome-office gq > ---^^^ > > Where did you get a firefox package? Please post your *full* > sources.list (if there is more than just Debi

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

2008-07-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,14.Jul.08, 00:35:08, Achim Bode wrote: > Hi, > > I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list, Do you mean testing? [...] > ---> changed the sources.list file from: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib > to > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

2008-07-14 Thread Achim Bode
Hugo wrote: Achim Bode wrote: Hi, I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list, performed a apt-get upgrade and be informed that some package will be removed. gallery2 concerns me in particular since it not obsolete in testing. Is something w

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

2008-07-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Achim Bode wrote: Hi, I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list, performed a apt-get upgrade and be informed that some package will be removed. gallery2 concerns me in particular since it not obsolete in testing. Is something wrong with my database or do I misunderstand

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote: > > > That's not quite true. Attributes such as immutable are > > > sometimes set by malware or disk errors. OP please show > > > us the output of the following two commands: > >

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote: > > That's not quite true. Attributes such as immutable are > > sometimes set by malware or disk errors. OP please show > > us the output of the following two commands: > > > > file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo > > /usr/share/local

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Manu Hack
Sorry guys, haven't been able to use that box until now. On 5/16/08, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > > Manu Hack wrote: > > > is so weird that even sudo rm > > > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo > > > said I don't h

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > > is so weird that even sudo rm > > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo > > said I don't have the permission to do so. > > (Operation not permitted) > > Try becoming root with 'sudo -i' and remove that file. roo

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Manu Hack wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Manu Hack
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade >> got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Manu >> >> >> > i wonder if

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. Thanks a lot. Manu i wonder if you could do this: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 15:48, Francis Earl wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> >> Choose Lenny or Etch. > > He stated he is choosing Lenny... this is a dist-upgrade from etch -> lenny. So it did. I'll go hide in the corner now.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Francis Earl
On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get > > dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. > > > > Thanks a lot. It says to try 'apt-get -f install'. Ha

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get > dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. > > Thanks a lot. IMO, Etch and Lenny/Testing are far enough apart, tha

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:41:25AM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > He's not running lenny, the libc6 there does not work at all with a 2.4 > > kernel. > > And of cou

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi, > > On 2007-12-28 04:19 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > > heard to say: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r > >> 2.4.2

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi, On 2007-12-28 04:19 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r >> 2.4.27-3-386 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > Ah. Ok, you're running a very very old kernel (one that's not even > pa

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Dec 27, 8:50 am, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:15:43PM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > > heard to say:> > Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list an

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-27 Thread schmity
On Dec 27, 8:50 am, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:15:43PM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say:> > Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents > of > > > /etc/debian_version ? I'm wondering if you maybe upgraded to etch b

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:15:43PM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of > > /etc/debian_version ? I'm wondering if you maybe upgraded to etch by > > accident (which could have happened if you listed "stable" inste

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-26 Thread schmity
On Dec 26, 11:40 am, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:09:25PM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > > I am running debian sarge and I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade and > > my wireless keyboard and mouse are no longer working. I know th

Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"

2007-12-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:09:25PM -0800, schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I am running debian sarge and I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade and > my wireless keyboard and mouse are no longer working. I know that > bios sees the wireless keyboard and mouse because I can hit delete a

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:57:47PM +0100, fvassem wrote: > > I seem to have the same problem and I am not to familiar with the dpkg > command. > > Can you give me the correct syntax for the dpkg command to install > openssh-client and server with the --force-all option? > You are much better o

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:57:47PM +0100, fvassem wrote: > > I seem to have the same problem and I am not to familiar with the dpkg > command. > > Can you give me the correct syntax for the dpkg command to install > openssh-client and server with the --force-all option? the command is dpkg -

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh [solved]

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:18:14AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > use dpkg with --force-all > > Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:18:14AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > use dpkg with --force-all > Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would moan > about the deps. But at least I got ssh sorted out. Now just apa

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > use dpkg with --force-all Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would moan about the deps. But at least I got ssh sorted out. Now just apache still seem to be broken - working on that. > might help. good luck

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:26:35AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > The following pa

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 18 December 2006 17:29, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:26 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Of course, the bigger issue is now, I can't open any new ssh sessions > to the box (which happens to be halfway accross the globe). I still > have some sessions open, but i'm on a di

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:26 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > The following packages

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:31:26AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > ... > I would NEVER do a dist-upgrade by itself. Use this instead: > If your run a dist-upgrade automatically, you might wake up to a broken > system ;) > I know :) Lots of other people posted this as well :) The poster

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
> 15 00 * * * apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade I would NEVER do a dist-upgrade by itself. Use this instead: 15 00 * * * apt-get update && apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade That will cache your packages and you can run the dist-upgrade in the morning when you get in, without downloading packages

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Wolfe wrote: Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in script format): apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And when there is something wrong with a replaced package. What then? Bad

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:04:05PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the > mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in > script format): > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > What would I need to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Wolfe
- Original Message From: TreeBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron Date: 24/09/05 20:52 > I really would not recommend doing this just in case things go wrong. If you > are running anything other than

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-24 Thread TreeBoy
On Sunday 25 Sep 2005 00:04, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the > mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in > script format): > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > What would I need to do to get this

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:00:56 -0400 Ryan Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "You will go to the Dagobah system..." :- ) Cybe R. Wizard -- Q: What's the difference between MicroSoft Windows and a virus? A: Apart from the fact that viruses are supported by their authors, use optimized, small

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:57 am, David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > > > had been running since the night befo

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > > had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs > > packages. > > > > - I've never

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread Greg
David Jardine wrote: I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs packages. - I've never had emacs on this machine. HearHear, Snap! - A subsequent "dpkg -l" showed no sign of emacs. Cool Bananas, - There

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs > packages. > > - I've never had emacs on this machine. > - A subsequent "dpkg -l" showed no sign of

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... Painful, innit? I did that when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge. > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Not really, no. > Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the > packcages it already g

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "jano kupec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin >> the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again >> and will it recognize the packcages it already got? > > apt keep

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... > > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Usually not, eventually you'll find them in /va

RE: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread jano kupec
> Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it recognize the packcages it already got? apt keeps downloaded packages (usually) in /var/cache/apt/archives, untill you decide to remove them with apt-get clean, so the are no

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it recognize the packcages it already got? If apt-get is interrupted, it'll continue from where it left off. Note that you might f

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... > > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade threatening to remove 1500 files - SOLVED

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:47:11 +, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for > security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list. > > Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system > such that

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-13 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:03 am, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: >Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Huh? >> >> --- >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree >> kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser >> mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xft >> -

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-10 Thread Joris Huizer
Jesse Rosenthal wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: Huh? --- The following packages will be REMOVED: blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xft -- I've been disconnected lately, but what's up w

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-10 Thread Jesse Rosenthal
Jeff Elkins wrote: > Huh? > > --- > The following packages will be REMOVED: > blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree > kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser > mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xft > -- > > I've been disconnected lately, but what's up wi

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-09 Thread dircha
Jeff Elkins wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: blt-common epiphany-browser gimp-nonfree kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xft I'm in a similar situation. aptitude (non-interactive) wants to remove libnss4 and libnss3 and automatica

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-17 Thread John Summerfield
*Brian Walker wrote:* * * *-f, --fix-broken This should fix it, but in my experience doesn't always apt-get -f install Your could also try apt-get -f install imhangul- Note the minus sign at the end of the package name. * * Many thanks for the advice - sadly, the apt-get -f option was one of the f

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-17 Thread Brian Walker
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > John Smith wrote: > > >>1. How can I continue with the upgrade, ignoring these dependencies? > >>Large numbers of updates remain unconfigured, and I cannot get the > >>system to ignore the problems and pass onto th

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-16 Thread John Summerfield
John Smith wrote: 1. How can I continue with the upgrade, ignoring these dependencies? Large numbers of updates remain unconfigured, and I cannot get the system to ignore the problems and pass onto the rest. 2. There is a dangerously unstable package - imhangul - half-installed. I am unable to inst

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-16 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:27, Brian Walker wrote: > Using Sarge and regularly apt-get updating and upgrading I ignored the > uninstalled gnome and kde, using blackbox wm, mutt and slrn. Thought I > would try to fix the box before migrating to unstable. > > apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-u

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

2004-07-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian Walker (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Using Sarge and regularly apt-get updating and upgrading I ignored the > uninstalled gnome and kde, using blackbox wm, mutt and slrn. Thought I > would try to fix the box before migrating to unstable. > > apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes apache

2004-05-03 Thread David Cannings
On Monday 03 May 2004 09:42, Vicente Ferrando wrote: > This morning I've tryed to upgrade some systems with 'apt-get > update' > 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. And I was suprised because apache, > apache-common, apache-utils, webmin-apache and some apache modules were > in the list to be removed.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade prefers removing x-window-system-core to upgrading it

2004-04-21 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:05:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Why does "apt-get dist-upgrade" prefer removing x-window-system-core to > upgrading it? Looks like you're doing a dist-upgrade to testing... I generally don't do that, testing often has broken dependencies. -- Leandro Guimarã

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-06 18:02:35 -0500, dircha wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >to stay with 4.2 (I don't know if there is a better solution). > >But apt-get dist-upgrade -s says: > > > >[...] > >Remv x-window-system-core (4.3.0-7 Debian:testing) > >[...] > > > >whereas only 4.2.1-12.1 is currently install

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: I don't understand it either. I have as only entry in preferences: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 My X packages come from there: deb /http://www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby/ ./ Yet, here too, apt-get dist-upgrade -s gets: [...

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-06 Thread dircha
Vincent Lefevre wrote: to stay with 4.2 (I don't know if there is a better solution). But apt-get dist-upgrade -s says: [...] Remv x-window-system-core (4.3.0-7 Debian:testing) [...] whereas only 4.2.1-12.1 is currently installed. Is it a bug in apt-get or what...? Perhaps the problem is arising be

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Vincent Lefevre wrote: I'm currently using XFree86 4.2 and I don't want to upgrade the X server and X applications for the moment, because of bugs. I've added the following to my /etc/apt/preferences file: Package: xfree86-common Pin: version 4.2.* Pin-Priority: 950 Package: xserver-common Pin: ver

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry Joostie, it did not work. Same result. At the moment it looks as if I have a de-facto 'stable' system, frozen at a moment in its ['unstable'] development path. Adam. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful > 'a

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Bogacki
With pleasure ... Adam. On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:32:56AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:08:39 +1300 > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.pl.debian.org > > > unstable/contrib P ackages > > I feel sure that you sh

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-09 Thread No Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' for 2-3 weeks now. That is a big backlog in unstable. The key message seems to be E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/d

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-09 Thread Joost Witteveen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful > 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' for 2-3 weeks now. That is a big > backlog in unstable. > > The key message seems to be > >> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/d

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

2004-02-09 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:57:58 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:32:56AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:08:39 +1300 > > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.pl.debian.org

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