Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> well i could easily use aptitude to purge packages... but since that is a pain
> if i have more than 5 packages which i uninstalled, i'd prefer to use a scripted
> approach.
Start aptitude, move the cursor down to "Not Installed Packages", type
"_", and
ions`, but i ended up just using aptitude and
> > > starting afresh.
> > >
> > > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a memory
> > > of all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can clear
> > > that list, as i would
Sam Halliday wrote:
well i could easily use aptitude to purge packages... but since that is a pain
if i have more than 5 packages which i uninstalled, i'd prefer to use a scripted
approach. it's all too easy to type - instead of _, especially since _ on a
packge will only - its dependencies.
That y
David Fokkema wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages
> > using`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and
> > starting afresh.
> >
> > but i recent
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> hi there,
>
> when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using
> `dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh.
>
> but i recently ran `apt-get dsele
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> but as a more general solution i'd just like to get my dpkg list to
> agree with
> the `apt-get dselect-upgrade` one.
It should just install those packages once you set the selections.
>
> yeah... i had considere
:) What you mean is, you "remove'd" a package
> but did not --purge?
:-)
but as a more general solution i'd just like to get my dpkg list to agree with
the `apt-get dselect-upgrade` one.
> > > One suggestion I could make to you is an apt-get --reinstall install
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> may i ask how this would suggest that i have a broken system? i fail to
> see the
> reasoning.
You said to "purge all un-installed apps". I mis-read that. Mind you, it
wasn't well written anyway. :) What you mean is, you "remove'd" a package
but did
Thomas Adam wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a
> > memory of
> > all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can
>
> Yes, that was meant to be run *after* you --set-selections!
yeah
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a
> memory of
> all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can
Yes, that was meant to be run *after* you --set-selections!
> clear that
>
hi there,
when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using
`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh.
but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a memory of
all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is
UnKnown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a
> testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from
> woody.
...huh? Which one is it? If it's "woody upgraded to sid" it's
probably an unstable machine, not testing.
> Th
Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a
testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from woody. The
problem is that im not the only admin and the other one only use apt-get to
install and remove packages, I, on the other hand, only use dselect to
insta
Hi again,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031023 03:57]:
> Nick Hastings wrote:
> >* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
> >
> >
> >>I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> >>http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
> >>
> >>I found it whilst Googl
Nick Hastings wrote:
Hi,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
in a mailing list archive. Could
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:40, Joseph Jones wrote:
> I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
>
> I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
> in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I w
Hi,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
> I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
>
> I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
> in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about
installing from this repository (so I can pl
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote:
> Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned:
> >
> >
> >>I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether
> >>there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the
> >>
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned:
I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether
there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the
unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies.
As in, I don't wan
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned:
> I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether
> there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the
> unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies.
> As in, I don't want it to do anything b
I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether there's
a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the unstable packages
without having to mess around fixing dependancies. As in, I don't want
it to do anything but un-install all the unstable packages. My apt-get
has bee
Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
net, but no luck.
I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the spec
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
> net, but no luck.
>
> I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
> entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified
>
I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
net, but no luck.
I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified
network mirrors if I'm connected to the Internet. On the other hand,
if I'
Mentioned link should be http://newbiedoc.sorceforge.net/
^
Sorry for typo.
Helmut
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0700, Jaime cristerna Avila wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote:
>
> .
>
> > There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search
> > the list archives.
>
> .
>
>
> Thank you Jason for your reply. I considered your s
Jaime,
I've started a thread on this list on a very similar subject
(re:mixture of potato & testing). People have strongly
discouraged me of mixing the different version of debian.
Vittorio
Jaime cristerna Avila [debian-user] <27/09/01 14:46 -0700>:
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrot
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote:
.
> There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search
> the list archives.
.
Thank you Jason for your reply. I considered your suggestion but was
not pleased with it. If I choose to do it this way, it means that I would
h
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 05:09 pm, Jaime cristerna Avila wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> This is my first time posting onto this list. I don't know if this
> question is best directed to user-dpkg. Regardless, I will try asking
> here first.
>
>
> Is there any way, I can keep potato and just up
Hello Everyone,
This is my first time posting onto this list. I don't know if this
question is best directed to user-dpkg. Regardless, I will try asking
here first.
My colleague and I have been installing Debian 2.2rx onto several
computers built by my colleague and I. We prefer using G200 vi
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:54:20AM +, Vittorio wrote:
> At office I have a Win NT Lan with a proxy requiring authentication
> (username and password).
>
> I've read the doc of apt-get and dselect but I couldn't find anything
> about these settings.
>
> Is there any way to use apt-get and dsel
At office I have a Win NT Lan with a proxy requiring authentication
(username and password).
I've read the doc of apt-get and dselect but I couldn't find anything
about these settings.
Is there any way to use apt-get and dselect with this kind of
connection?
Ciao
Vittorio
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> When I tried to upgrade with dselect it would try to uninstall
> j2sdk1.3 and other packages even when there was no mention of them in
> the dependencies problems screen. Then I tried to run apt-get upgrade
> and see what happened:
>
> [EMAI
Hello,
When I tried to upgrade with dselect it would try to uninstall
j2sdk1.3 and other packages even when there was no mention of them in
the dependencies problems screen. Then I tried to run apt-get upgrade
and see what happened:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get upgrade
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
>> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
>> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
>> (do that quite often myse
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
> (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK.
dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> > If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do
> > not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages,
> > put everything on hold first and then unhold the few.
>
> Hm, I yust wanna u
ages database.
>
> Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on apt-get dselect-upgrade
> just now to be sure, and nowhere does it access
> /var/lib/dpkg/available).
>
> It *will* use dselect's package status file for checking which
> packages should be installed, but
--On Friday, July 13, 2001 22:37:02 +1000 Graham Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quite a few times I've "apt-get update". I then check to see which
packages have been upgraded wrt my installation, then go to install
them with apt-get install and the deb files are not there. Checking
the ac
Received Fri 13 Jul 2001 9:16pm +1000 from Joost Kooij:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> > no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
Sorry not to have any useful
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
> -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
> ftp.us.debian.org there
On 12/07/01 22:38 +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
[...]
> Hm, I yust wanna update few debs day by day. If I understand it the right
> way, I can make an 'apt-get update' and then install my wanted deb with
> "apt-get [deb]. Right?
[...]
# apt-get install emacs20
will get emacs20 deb and requi
hey
> > >> be out of date?
> >
> > Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> > Joost> dpkg available packages database.
> >
> > Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on apt-get dselect-upgrade
> &
id apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could
> they
> >> be out of date?
>
> Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> Joost> dpkg available packages database.
>
> Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an stra
moin moin Joost!
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:13:44 +0200 you were able to write:
[...]
> If you want to update from ftp, uncomment all but the ftp uris.
OK.
> If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do
> not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages
do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
Joost> dpkg available packages database.
Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on apt-get dselect-upgrade
just now to be sure, and nowhere does it access
/var/lib/dpkg/available).
It *will* use dselect's package
I did a dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing
packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade. I have not had
any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its
not working.
Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for
util
ailable packages database,
and does not use the dpkg database. The dpkg available database must also
be kept up to date, but there is no "apt-get dselect-update" for that.
I think that apt-get should do this on every regular "apt-get update",
because it should keep the dpkg available p
John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>be out of date?
'apt-get update' only updates apt's available file, not dpkg's. 'dselect
update' updates both.
However, if you're using apt, then this shouldn't matter. It may just be
tha
I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
be out of date?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> > missing files and ind
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
> not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> there?
>
I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
there?
I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the
output.
321 packages
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:04:55PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> moin moin Joost!
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write:
>
> [...]
> > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1
> > > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/mai
Am 09. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
Grüßle Martin,
> Ok, and what should I do if I wanna install from an ftp-server? Put the
> entry again there? It's very uncofortable, isn't it?
Yes, it's a pain. That's why I came up with those other configs for apt.
The reason you're seeing th
moin moin Joost!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write:
[...]
> > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1
> > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> > non-US/non-free non-free
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main con
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 07:48:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
> But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
> a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-suppo
moin moin der.hans!
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:26:25 -0700 (MST) you were able to write:
> Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
>
> > I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some
> > proggies. But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that
> > doesn't installe
Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
> I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
> But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
> a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support.
>
> Nevertheless, now I want
Hi folks,
I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support.
Nevertheless, now I wanted to install some packages from the cds, but
dsele
I am using unstable, and someone told me to run a dist-upgrade because of some
problems i had.
I did a apt-get update and then upgrade first, but there were some unmet
dependencies and
apt told me to run apt-get -f install. but if I do this I get a very weird
error message, never saw that
before
After having had trouble with finding packages in apt-get and using
dselect and making a few mistakes, I find I've gotten my system a little
out of whack. Everything is working fine, but I mistakenly deleted some
packages with dselect. Just recently I went to use slrn and found it
wasn't there, apt
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on one of my debian (potato) machines I have:
>
> $ apt-get dselect-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> apt-get
I was having this problem as well on a potato machine. I never found
out what the problem was, but it somehow fixed itself. I don't think
it had anything directly to do with apt-get or dpkg, but perhaps a
bug in libc? Do an apt-get dist-updgrade and then play around with it
again. One
I got this on my Slink machine running 2.3.17, no idea what caused it.
2.3.16 and 2.3.18 had no problem with the same .config used to compile.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on one of my debian (potato) machines I have:
>
> $ apt-get dselect-upgrade
&g
Hi,
on one of my debian (potato) machines I have:
$ apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
apt-get upgrade works ok. How to cure/diagnose it.
My versions:
ii apt 0.3.12 Advanced front-end for
>On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max
>> the info for brave souls who may be able to help me...
>>
>> An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has
>> left an unknown number of packages possibly
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max
> the info for brave souls who may be able to help me...
>
> An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has
> left an unknow
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:51:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would
> > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again?
>
> If you had noted the error messa
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would
> "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again?
If you had noted the error messages you would have known that something
had failed. In that instance the best t
I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max the
info for brave souls who may be able to help me...
An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has left an
unknown number of packages possibly not upgraded. Slink-->potato, BTW.
The long story: (the bi
did not
> have requisite packages installed, though.
I did just notice a small problem, when I used 'apt-get dselect-upgrade', apt
wanted to install three additional packages. Two of these I could use, but
there is one I do not know ("lintian") and another I don't wa
On 15-May-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> Another stupid dselect question:
>
> I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect,
> (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything
> is set to "remove" by default. I'm talking about required stuff
> like "bash" a
Another stupid dselect question:
I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect,
(using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything
is set to "remove" by default. I'm talking about required stuff
like "bash" and "tar"! I know I can go through by hand and f
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