Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:11:04PM +, Kirt Odle wrote: > Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make > aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? Just adding another point-of-view. If you're using aptitude's Text User Interfac

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:50PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Aptitude also installs recommended packages by default. And for completeness sake, so does apt-get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Assumed the packages are needed for a machine without Internet access and you want to install the package + the dependencies + the dependencies of the dependencies, then copy them into one directory abd install them by using the asterisk. sudo dpkg -i * If it won't work, because a package would b

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 18:33 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > If you mean just download Original poster, did you mean only downloading the packages? Assumed you will archive them, if you once installed them, they already might be available by a cache and IIRC there is a rollback repository for Debian (I

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 feb 14, 19:29:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > FWIW the package I mentioned, Synaptic, is a nice GUI to install > packages, that e.g. provides an option to automatically install > recommended packages, by only checking a box and it also provides to > show and manually check all recommended an

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 13:15 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > If I assume you want to install these packages, and by "ALL of its > dependencies" you mean hard dependencies, recommends, and suggests (or > some subset thereof) it's probably easiest for you to use aptitude in > its textual interface / in

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:11:04 + Kirt Odle wrote: Hello Kirt, >Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to >make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single >operation ?? If you mean just download, I think you need; aptitude -d install tshark

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 13:10 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > sudo apt-get install tshark > > Should do the trick (assuming "tshark" is the application name). It will do, but only because the package has got no recommended and no suggested dependencies, https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/tshark . Assum

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-26 18:11 +0100, Kirt Odle wrote: > Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to > make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single > operation ?? "aptitude install tshark", or if you really want to only download and not install tshark, "ap

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Jape Person
On 02/26/2014 12:11 PM, Kirt Odle wrote: Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? Download or install? If I assume you want to install these packages, and by "ALL of its dependenc

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On 26/02/2014 12:11, Kirt Odle wrote: > Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make > aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? > > thanks > > Kirt Odle > > > sudo apt-get install tshark Should do the trick (assuming "tshar

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread David Guntner
Kirt Odle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to > make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a > single operation ?? aptitude install tshark Comes to mind. :-) "man aptitude" for more info. --Dave