Re: Removing packages?

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?

[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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

Removing packages?

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 version of libc6 and libglib. I donwloaded these from the main debian reposit

Re: [SOLVED] Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:49:30PM +0200, Giannis Stoilis wrote: > So, I did the following: > 1) Removed every file of the package. dpkg -L broken-package | xargs rm > 2) Opened /var/lib/dpkg/status, found the package and deleted every > line until the next blank line. > > That did what I wanted t

Re: [SOLVED] Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

To Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I saw your suggestion in the man page. It says: "Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the selection state on the requested packages.". My problem isn't the state of the packages, so it didn't solve the problem. To thie

Re: Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Giannis Stoilis wrote: Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstall

Re: Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

Giannis Stoilis wrote: Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstallation procedure. I want t

Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstallation procedure. I want to remove this package comp

Re: APT Removing Packages *With Met* Dependancies?

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I understand, these packages' dependancies should be met ... > Can someone spot what I'm doing wrong? Put the package in question on hold. i,e,: echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgaze

APT Removing Packages *With Met* Dependancies?

Why must libgle3 and xscreensaver-gl be removed when I try to install a package which conflicts with, but provides xlibmesa-gl? I'm experimenting with some (ugly) video drivers. I need to remove xlibmesa-gl and install a different libGL.so, so I used the following "control" file and equivs to b

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > Try . Most of my answers > > above came from there. > > Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your > tim

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > > > moonlight 0.5.3-6 > > > > No idea what this was. > > Description: create and render 3D scenes Looks like they ran into some problems. The original site (http://www.moon

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > (... reasons for removing a series of packages ...) > Try . Most of my answers > above came from there. Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your time looking for each

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:19:06AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > gnotepad+-help 1.2.0-3.1 Purged by the release manager due to bugs, see #137928. > kfilereplace 0.6.1-8 It had been orphaned for ages so it was removed, see #116554. > libjsw1.2 1:1.2.0-1.2 Removed because its source package didn'

Reasons for removing packages from Debian

After running a few scripts of my own, I've discovered quite a few packages I have installed that are now completely absent from all Debian distributions. Further processing of the Packages files showed that some of the vanished packages were from unstable and got replaced by newer versions, and o

Re: removing packages

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 ha

Re: removing packages

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

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

removing packages

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 an error due to a full hard disk, is there some manual process I will

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

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

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

removing packages: apt-get <--> dpkg

Does someone know the difference between removing a package with dpkg and apt-get? -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.de Private:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yi.org/guettli

q ad removing packages

Hi! recently, I did a bit of cleaning up unnecessary packages, but there´s one I haven´t been able to get completely rid of, anyone has a hint for me? the various --force et al parameters didn´t work, I also tried simply touching /etc/init.d/genpower so dpkg can remove it, but that didn´t work ou

Re: Removing packages

-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

Removing packages

Hi, I'm trying to install tetex-base but for that i need to remove all previous TeX packages. I manage to remove almost all except babel and latex. When i type the suggested command : dpkg --purge --force-depends babel latex I get these errors: /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-bas