Re: apt-get strangeness

2001-02-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > I've noticed a strange problem with apt-get: it downloads packages > twice. Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm using Woody, and I've > noticed this error for some weeks now. It seems to have been reported in > bug report #79277, but it's

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:44:50PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Er no, this is completely silly. There are no problems that APT does not > catch. > > Your problem in that APT has interesting way to complain about missing > dependencies. You need to to include more packages on the some instal

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, apt-get shouldn't be used when something's broken? I used apt-get in > the first place, so I take it that means that apt-get didn't catch the > problem. I know the packaging tools are much better than my rpm experiences, > but I'd love to s

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:49:45AM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred > method, verify that the source list is correct and then go on > updating your packages lists and then selecting the compiler. This will > bring up some conf

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm confused. I'm trying to install the C++ compiler. [...] > So what's going on? How do I get this thing installed? Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred method, verify that the