Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

2020-07-31 Thread Semih Ozlem
or that have missing, wrong or obsolete control data or files. dpkg will suggest what to do with them to get them fixed. Sven Joachim , 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 19:43 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > > > Am looking for a way to reinstall a pac

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

2020-07-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the > package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Something like this should do the trick: # aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage&#

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

2020-07-31 Thread local10
Jul 31, 2020, 15:28 by semihozlemlinuxu...@gmail.com: > ... > Also I did not put any license agreement on this, and did not think about it > commercially. I am assuming that this wont be used for commercial purposes, > but educational purposes, or for the purpose of making open source more >

aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

2020-07-31 Thread local10
Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: O Is this still about the problem with gtkwifi? What you posted initially showed that there was an issue with the post-removal script. The contents of other files in /var/lib/dpkg/ should not have anything to do with that. It is not not a good idea to just randomly delete f

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-08-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 18:57:27 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > shell wrote: > > > >Looks like there has something wrong in ur globel deb database. Maybe > >remove it from /var/lib/dpkg/ menually and reinstall will fix it. > >Otherwise, u can also check if u can access all directory dev package >

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
shell wrote: Looks like there has something wrong in ur globel deb database. Maybe remove it from /var/lib/dpkg/ menually and reinstall will fix it. Otherwise, u can also check if u can access all directory dev package need. There are several files in that directory. I can't seem to figure

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 20:17:53 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > > > >>dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > >>dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > >> > > >

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread shell
Nick Lidakis wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked e

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote: There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message. So that is

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote: > There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a > site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened > when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message. > > So that is why I'm stuc

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Aha! and when trying to remove: dpkg: error processing gtkwifi (--purge): Pack

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Aha! > and when trying to remove: > dpkg: error processing gtkwifi (--purge): > Package is in a very bad in

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package > called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its > removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying > to reinstall

Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying to reinstall via dpk it keeps complaining: "The package gtkwifi needs to be reinst

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim McDonough wrote: > In fact I cannot even find the startx command on the machine. There are several different ways to get the X window system running on machines. One of the really nice things about Debian is that it is a full framework for software management. You can install as much as you

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim McDonough wrote: > the better capabilities of the monitor so I, perhaps unwisely, decided > I could simply uninstall then reinstall X-Windows and KDE. > apt-get --purge remove kde > apt-get --purge remove x-window-system Those are just meta packages. They exist only to depend upon other pack

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Tim N9PUZ wrote: Steve Block wrote: Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading the m

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: This is a good lesson on keeping logs of of your apt-get session, or at least keeping a list of installed packages by running "dpkg --get-selections *". Sorry, make that "dpkg --get-selections" (no asterisk). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tim N9PUZ wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' instead. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Steve Block wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the be

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Tim N9PUZ
Steve Block wrote: Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading the man page I suspect the window system isn't one that's configu

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the better capabilities of

How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Tim McDonough
I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the better capabilities of the monitor so I, perhaps unwisely, decided I could simply uni

Re: how to reinstall a package without removing it first?

2002-10-14 Thread Eduardo Pereira Habkost
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:22:00PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > I cannot remove the package because the package in question is "apt" and > I screwed up on of its example files. :) I might be able to down its > deb file and extract the files I needed from it. But is there a simpler > way to force r

how to reinstall a package without removing it first?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
I cannot remove the package because the package in question is "apt" and I screwed up on of its example files. :) I might be able to down its deb file and extract the files I needed from it. But is there a simpler way to force re-installation of the same version? Thanks, -tk -- To UNSUBS

Re: How Do I Reinstall A Package?

2001-11-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 November 2001 10:03 am, David Harrigan wrote: > Hello, > > How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of: > > apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example) > but did you try apt-get --rei

Re: How Do I Reinstall A Package?

2001-11-12 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, David Harrigan wrote: > How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of: > > apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example) apt-get install --reinstall kdelibs3 -- Baloo

Re: How Do I Reinstall A Package?

2001-11-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:03:43AM +, David Harrigan wrote: > How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of: > > apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example) > > but since it's installed it complains that I already have the latest package >

How Do I Reinstall A Package?

2001-11-12 Thread David Harrigan
Hello, How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of: apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example) but since it's installed it complains that I already have the latest package and it won't install it. So I tried putting a '-d' in front so tha

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:59:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would > therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files. > Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread neonatus
* On 05-07-01 at 00:18 Moritz Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I > > would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace > > the lost files. Is th

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I > would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace > the lost files. Is there an easy was how this can be done? I > checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall.

Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread neonatus
Hi! I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files. Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall. THX in advance! Bostjan --