Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-13 Thread John Dilley
On 11 May 2013 18:29, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 16:36:13 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > >> On 11 May 2013, at 16:04, Brian wrote: >> >> > Shouldn't the line read >> > >> > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard ? >> >> Ah yes, it should. I'm pretty sure I tried that though before I >>

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 May 2013 at 16:36:13 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > On 11 May 2013, at 16:04, Brian wrote: > > > Shouldn't the line read > > > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard ? > > Ah yes, it should. I'm pretty sure I tried that though before I > started trying different options (I've check

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread John Dilley
On 11 May 2013, at 16:04, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 15:32:00 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: >> >>> I've got >>> >>> tasksel/first multiselect standard >>> >>> At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install >>> th

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 May 2013 at 15:32:00 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > > > I've got > > > > tasksel/first multiselect standard > > > > At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install > > the "standard" task? > > So you have! I miss

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > I've got > > tasksel/first multiselect standard > > At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install > the "standard" task? So you have! I missed it. Sorry. Looks like it should do the job. Time for a think and a te

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread John Dilley
I've got tasksel/first multiselect standard At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install the "standard" task? John On 11 May 2013 14:39, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 13:46:23 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > >> I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 May 2013 at 13:46:23 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest onto > XenServer, with a preseed file (below) - despite only asking for > standard system utilities in tasksel, I seem to be getting a full > desktop environment installed. > > The p

Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

2013-05-11 Thread John Dilley
I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest onto XenServer, with a preseed file (below) - despite only asking for standard system utilities in tasksel, I seem to be getting a full desktop environment installed. The preseed file was based on the one I use for Squeeze, which works fine -

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache). [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I ended up using aptitude safe-upgrade and it gave me no trouble. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 13:35, Virgo Pärna wrote: >    You need to have package installed, that provides phpapi-20060613. > php5-cgi or  php5-cli should also work. I have both -cgi and -cli. >    I guess, that it is pretty much

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-20 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:45 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= > 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) > p A php5-common

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 16:35:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= > 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) > p A php5-common Recommends

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 17 January 2010 16:27:52 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I don't know why would any package depend specifically on apache > instead of on a webserver (which i have), and apt-cache rdepends > didn't show me anything interesting. Try (aptitude why $package_it_wants_to_install) or (aptitude why-not

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Well using aptitude safe-upgrade didn't prompt for any x- or apache-related packages. Thanks, Nuno -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Ok, i'm getting somewhere: # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) p A php5-common Recommends php5-suhosin i A php5-suhosin Dependsphpa

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:25:59, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > So, if i change now to aptitude will all my problems be solved? No, but it might help you find the real problem. Try aptitude why to see why a package would be installed. It is also safe to switch to aptitude now, it shouldn't conflict with

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have > installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which depends on all > the video-* packages. remove that package and directly install the > drivers you actually need.

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install > > [...] *all* the xserver-xorg-video-* packages, you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which d

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:34, Stephen Powell wrote: > > You haven't said whether you are running Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid, Oh... Sid actually. > apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade Nope, same result... thanks though. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ri

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install too > much cruft for me, namely apache2-mpm-prefork and *all* the > xserver-xorg-video-* packages, along with some others. Usually it just > wants to install one or two, keep a f

Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install too much cruft for me, namely apache2-mpm-prefork and *all* the xserver-xorg-video-* packages, along with some others. Usually it just wants to install one or two, keep a few and upgrade a bunch. I don't know why would any

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On 4 May 2001, Steve Gran wrote: > Be careful removing things, and if you're not sure and it's not causing a conflict, it may be asiest to leave it alone. "dpkg --purge" will not purge a package that is depended on by other packages - you may inadvertently get rid of a recommended or suggested pa

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello, > hi,all > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the > filename,and there are so many package to remove. > How can I reinstall but keep

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Gran
On Mon, 07 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way to find package names is dpkg -l, or pipe it through less: dpkg-l|less. This will give you a list of all installed packages on your system and their current status. Then you can decide which ones to remove. Be careful removing thi

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 19:14, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi,all > > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > > I want to use 'apt-get remove filena

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi,all > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the > filename,and there are so

I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread fg007
hi,all I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the filename,and there are so many package to remove. How can I reinstall but keep the smallest base sy

apt-cdrom finds too many "Packages"

2000-08-23 Thread Enzo Dari
Hi, I had the bad idea of putting extra software in the 4th CD of my own unofficial Potato distribution. It happens that somewhere in the directory tree of this extra software there exists a *directory* called "Packages" apt-cdrom tries to read debian packages from it and fails, making all the pack

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-14 Thread Brian C. White
> > Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I > > unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove. > > You can guess the rest... > > That probably should be clarified: > > You select for removal or purging those packages you don't want. > Y

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-14 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I > unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove. > You can guess the rest... That probably should be clarified: You select for removal or purging t

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-11 Thread Brian C. White
> > Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, > > TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I > > fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen > > with Exit highlighted. Is this normal? > > Yes, because

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-11 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Thanks :) I appreciate everyone who answered this for me politely, although I was deserving of a RTFM, no doubt :) D'oh! Regards, Kendrick At 04:29 PM 1/10/97 -0500, David Gaudine wrote: > >Yes, because you didn't select what you want to remove. Use select first. > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-11 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: > Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, > TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I > fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen > with Exit highlighte

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: > Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, > TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I > fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen > with Exit highlighted.

Too many packages!

1997-01-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen with Exit highlighted. Is this normal? I did a dpkg --list, and I have