Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 apr 14, 17:24:07, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > You could use aptitude to mark the dependencies as auto-installed > > (untested): > > > > # aptitude markauto "~Dlibreoffice" > > > > Then you can autoremove them as you wish. Shouldn't that be

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-04-13 05:59 +0200, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > [snip] > >> > >> Not even the meta-package 'libreoffice'? > > > > I rechecked,

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-13 05:59 +0200, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> Hello Patrick, >> >> >uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge >> >libreoffice' won't do it. I've done tests,

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:59:02 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >I rechecked, and the metapackage is removed, but not any of > >libreoffice modules. Ultimately, I just purged each of the modules > >by name, then autoremove the orphaned dependencies. > >

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-13 Thread Reco
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:21:55 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > I don't use GNOME, so I'll leave that to you. :) > GNOME is one of the reasons I use a Window Manager. :) Nah, I'll pass. Stopped using GNOME back in 2007, never looked back since then. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:50:03AM +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > > > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:59:02 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >I rechecked, and the metapackage is removed, but not any of libreoffice >modules. Ultimately, I just purged each of the modules by name, then >autoremove the orphaned dependencies. > >There should be an easier way. Maybe,

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) > > WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? > > Seems like a bug

GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? Seems like a bug to me. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the pe

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > >uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge > >libreoffice' won't do it. I've done tests, and as far as I can tell > >little or nothing is removed. >

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > > On 04/11/2014 09:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > > > >> On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > [snip] > > Fine. Everything is installed. Now, sometime later, I want to > > uninstall or purge libreoffice from

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Try removing libreoffice-core . -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/877g6ud7y9@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:15:54 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, >Not even the meta-package 'libreoffice'? No. I didn't read the follow ups. Already dealt with. Move along: Nothing to see here. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge >libreoffice' won't do it. I've done tests, and as far as I can tell >little or nothing is removed. Not even the meta-package 'libreoffice'? -- Regards _

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread PaulNM
On 04/11/2014 09:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > >> On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> Now, if "they" could come up with an efficient and effective way to >>> uninstall/purge stuff installed via a metapackage. Or maybe there >>> is and I jus

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, John Hasler wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > > Now, sometime later, I want to uninstall or purge libreoffice from > > the system. 'apt-get purge libreoffice' won't do it. > > Try 'apt-get purge libreoffice && apt-get autoremove' Already tried. Since the first action doesn'

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Bartek writes: > Now, sometime later, I want to uninstall or purge libreoffice from the > system. 'apt-get purge libreoffice' won't do it. Try 'apt-get purge libreoffice && apt-get autoremove' -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, PaulNM wrote: > On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Now, if "they" could come up with an efficient and effective way to > > uninstall/purge stuff installed via a metapackage. Or maybe there > > is and I just haven't found it. ;-) > > > > apt-get autoremov

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread PaulNM
On 04/10/2014 04:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Dist-upgrade installs the NEWER version of a file(s) and its > dependencies, and removes the OLD version. That is, v1.0 to v2.0. > Upgrade does v1.0 to v1.1 as well a security and bug fixes. Check the > versions of what was going to be insta

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your quotes to just include relevant content, makes it easier to read.] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:04:21PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > After it went > Stable, I used just upgrade -- for the most part. So there would be no > major changes. This also recommended by Debian. Stable m

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread PaulNM
On 04/11/2014 12:04 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now, if "they" could come up with an efficient and effective way to > uninstall/purge stuff installed via a metapackage. Or maybe there is > and I just haven't found it. ;-) > apt-get autoremove > B > > - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 10/04/14 04:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> On 10/04/14 11:50 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > >>> > Had a strange problem this morning for the s

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/04/14 04:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: On 10/04/14 11:50 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade Re

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 10/04/14 11:50 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: > >> > >> > >> root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade > >> Reading package lis

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/04/14 12:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2014 16:17:21 Robin wrote: Synaptic, I think, defaults to Smart Upgrade, the equivalent is apt-get dist-upgrade. Man apt-get for the full details You probably ran # aptitude upgrade too. That doesn't remove anything. # aptitude ful

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/04/14 11:50 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calc

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/04/14 11:17 AM, Robin wrote: On 10 April 2014 16:07, Frank McCormick wrote: Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculatin

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 April 2014 16:17:21 Robin wrote: > Synaptic, I think, defaults to Smart Upgrade, the equivalent is > apt-get  dist-upgrade. > Man apt-get for the full details You probably ran # aptitude upgrade too. That doesn't remove anything. # aptitude full-upgrade would have accomplished

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: > > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The f

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-10 Thread Robin
On 10 April 2014 16:07, Frank McCormick wrote: > Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: > > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The