Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:53:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:02:34PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:31:21AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > > Thanks for the response Kevin. I appreciate you taking the time to answer > > > my > > > qu

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole libc6 problem puzzles me. I thought that Linux libraries were version-numbered in such a way that the linker could distinguish compatible from incompatible versions. Why does this mechanism not work for libc6? -- hendrik I don't know the answer to y

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:02:34PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:31:21AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > Thanks for the response Kevin. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my > > question. > > > > I was afraid that Apt was going to remove the packages because of

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:31:21AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Thanks for the response Kevin. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my > question. > > I was afraid that Apt was going to remove the packages because of a > dependency. I figured libc6 and glib were important libraries, as

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:56:38PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:22:04PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I am trying to install Mono on my Debian System. I went to backports.org and > > downloaded the Mono packages for Sarge, the version of Debian I am running. > > When

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-08 Thread Redefined Horizons
Thanks for the response Kevin. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.   I was afraid that Apt was going to remove the packages because of a dependency. I figured libc6 and glib were important libraries, as Apt said it was going to remove 145 packages if I installed the new version

Re: Removing packages?

2006-04-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:22:04PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I am trying to install Mono on my Debian System. I went to backports.org and > downloaded the Mono packages for Sarge, the version of Debian I am running. > When I tried to install Mono apt told me that I needed a more recent ver

Re: removing packages

2001-04-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: removing packages Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:12:33PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Smith Quoting Brian Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I mistakenly told the potatoe install routine to install everything on > the 3 cd's I have, and I ran out of disk space (only have 1Gb). I wan

Re: removing packages

2001-04-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Is that correct? I just re-re-re-re-looked at man apt-get and found this: --purge Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Purge. tatah On Wednesday 25 April 2001 16:51, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001

Re: removing packages

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:12:33PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote: > I mistakenly told the potatoe install routine to install everything on > the 3 cd's I have, and I ran out of disk space (only have 1Gb). I want > to remove packages, do I use apt-remove or something like that ? I tried > that and got a

Re: removing packages: apt-get <--> dpkg

2000-10-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:14:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > none (afaik), except that pre-invoke and post-invoke commands in > /etc/apt/apt.conf are run when you use apt. > > this is useful if you keep /usr mounted readonly and have pre/post > invoke commands to mount it read-write when nee

Re: removing packages: apt-get <--> dpkg

2000-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:09:41PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Does someone know the difference between removing a package with > dpkg and apt-get? none (afaik), except that pre-invoke and post-invoke commands in /etc/apt/apt.conf are run when you use apt. this is useful if you keep /usr moun

Re: Removing packages

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Vitor Beires Nogueira wrote: > dpkg --purge --force-depends babel latex > > I get these errors: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-base: command not found > /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not fou