Re: Why does "apt-get upgrade {package}" upgrade all packages instead of error?

2024-10-24 Thread Aldo Maggi
o the upgrade action.  Aldo On 10/24/24 19:46, Frank Weißer wrote: Hello Daniel, # man apt-get (german translation) doesn't tell anything else. apt-get upgrade upgrades ALL installed packages. Kind regards Frank Daniel Roberts: Hello, I've run into this a few times

Re: Why does "apt-get upgrade {package}" upgrade all packages instead of error?

2024-10-24 Thread David Wright
s". However, passing a package name to > "apt-get upgrade" results in the argument being ignored and all packages > upgraded. > > Is there some reason that this is the case? Is it a bug that has > always existed and never fixed? I can't provoke this bug, so w

Why does "apt-get upgrade {package}" upgrade all packages instead of error?

2024-10-24 Thread Daniel Roberts
Hello, I've run into this a few times over the years and it can be a headache to resolve. Passing a package name to "apt-get update" results in the response "E: The update command takes no arguments". However, passing a package name to "apt-get upgrade" result

Re: Why does "apt-get upgrade {package}" upgrade all packages instead of error?

2024-10-24 Thread Felix Miata
;. However, passing a package name to > "apt-get upgrade" results in the argument being ignored and all packages > upgraded. > Is there some reason that this is the case? Is it a bug that has > always existed and never fixed? It's not like dnf or zypper or urpmi. If you w

Re: Why does "apt-get upgrade {package}" upgrade all packages instead of error?

2024-10-24 Thread Frank Weißer
Hello Daniel, # man apt-get (german translation) doesn't tell anything else. apt-get upgrade upgrades ALL installed packages. Kind regards Frank Daniel Roberts: Hello, I've run into this a few times over the years and it can be a headache to resolve. Passing a package name t

Gnome default application reset after apt-get upgrade

2021-12-13 Thread Will
Greetings, This has been an annoyance/issue for a while - at least for me - and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this? The problem: after an apt-get update/upgrade, the Default Applications for "Web" in Gnome will somehow switch to Thunderbird from Firefox through no direct action by me, wh

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 13:03:32, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > > > > I believe someone demonstrated quite recently on list that dpkg has some > > limits in the number and/or combination of packag

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrei writes: > > > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > > > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > > > unless you use one of t

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > > unless you use one of the --force switches. > > What it does not do is resolve dependencies.

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
So, if you don't pin down the priority of deb-multimedia, virtually every audio- and video-related package on your system will be replaced with the deb-multimedia version, which for the sake of stability is very likely a bad idea. So it is safer to lower the priority of deb-multimedia and that of

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread Michael Lange
an easily mess with apt's dependencies and cause nasty situations ("dependency hell") > In other words, should I stick to aptitude's decision? I really recommend to do the pinning first, then re-run $ apt update and then look again what is suggested when you call apt-g

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread R. Ramesh
To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia . Here the content of that file looks like: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster Pin-Priority: 332 Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster-back

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > dpkg does its own dependency checking, in addition to APT (the > software, not the command), and will prevent any inconsistencies > unless you use one of the --force switches. What it does not do is resolve dependencies. Apt recursively resolves dependencies, installing them as r

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
ries. > All of the tools have a 'safe' mode which is guaranteed not to remove > packages. However, many upgrades do require the removal of some > packages, so the safe mode will only get you so far in these cases. > > If you are using Stable, there should never be any re

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Michael Lange
libcdio19, which apt-get won't do with the "apt-get upgrade" command. I believe that most likely the root of the problem is, that no apt-pinning rule is defined for the deb-multimedia repo. To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multi

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread R. Ramesh
To begin with, which distribution is it? In general, with Stable, it pretty much doesn't matter which tool is used. The kind of problems you have indicate Unstable or Testing. First, apt is pretty much apt-get, with different syntax and a few extra features. Aptitude can generally do a better job

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Joe
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:12:19 -0500 Ram Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > >   I am trying to upgrade the current setup and I am unable to > understand the differences between aptitude vs. apt-get usage. > When I do apt-get -s upgrade, I get > > myth2 [rramesh] 100 > sudo apt-get -s upgrade > > Reading pack

aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

2020-10-25 Thread Ram Ramesh
Hi,   I am trying to upgrade the current setup and I am unable to understand the differences between aptitude vs. apt-get usage. When I do apt-get -s upgrade, I get myth2 [rramesh] 100 > sudo apt-get -s upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rhkra...@gmail.com [2018-12-25 09:21 -0500]: [...] > But now I'm at this point: > > root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:21:39 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > [snip] > > But now I'm at this point: > > root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done &g

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 09:21:39AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the reply, it helped a lot -- I seem to have one problem remaining > (below). [...] > df told me that /var was at 100%, and /boot was at 98%. "apt-get autoclean" or its more drastic sibling "apt-get clean" might be

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-25 Thread rhkramer
and it became apparent that I had deleted some essential directories and files, but the error messages told me what they were so I recreated them. Aside: I should increase the size of /var and maybe /boot -- they both (of similar size) seem very adequate in my Wheezy system (still in service).

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-24 Thread rhkramer
2018-12-24 18:10 -0500]: > > On my Jessie system, for something like the last 2 to 3 months, I've been > > getting an error like the following whenever I do an apt-get update / > > apt-get upgrade cycle. > > [...] > > > Ok, it looks like I have the r8169 as I

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rh kramer [2018-12-24 18:10 -0500]: > On my Jessie system, for something like the last 2 to 3 months, I've been > getting an error like the following whenever I do an apt-get update / > apt-get upgrade cycle. [...] > Ok, it looks like I have the r8169 as I see

apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-24 Thread rh kramer
On my Jessie system, for something like the last 2 to 3 months, I've been getting an error like the following whenever I do an apt-get update / apt-get upgrade cycle. I've been ignoring it, hoping it would go away with some future update, but so far it hasn't. The (edited) error m

Re: Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

2018-11-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-11-21 10:25 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade. > > I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why? Previous versions of systemd used to create it, a mistake that has just been corrected: , | systemd (239-12) u

Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

2018-11-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade. I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why? (I thought that "Nobody" was set up, to give "little or no" Privileges to something "Automagic"). Thank you! Kenneth Parker

Error! Bad dkms.conf file after apt-get upgrade

2017-08-11 Thread Larry Dighera
Hello all, After running 'apt-get install upgrade' the system reported the data below. How can I overcome this issue?  Is it just a matter of loading a proper dkms.conf file, perhaps from another Stretch installation, or is there an official dkms.conf file that I can download somewhere, or is i

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-22 Thread Fungi4All
get 68.5 MB of archives.> After this operation, 242 MB of >> > additional disk space will be used. >> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n >> > Abort. >> >> > $ sudo apt-get upgrade >> ... >> > 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remov

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Jul 2017 at 00:43:08 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer composed on 2017-07-20 15:38 (UTC-0600): > > > David Wright wrote: > > >> On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >>> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > > >> I did. Where d

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 20-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic > > wrote: > > > > > > > > If you have minimal install, why do you suspect that something is > > > wrong, rather to suppose that all is fine and that si

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 20-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic > wrote: > > > > > If you have minimal install, why do you suspect that something is > > wrong, rather to suppose that all is fine and that simply there was > > no security updates for your install? It is stable

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 05:55:15 + (UTC) david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >>> Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can > > > >>> install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update >

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Felix Miata
Joe Pfeiffer composed on 2017-07-20 15:38 (UTC-0600): > David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >>> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? >> I did. Where does it say that? > The closest thing to that statement I've encountered is i

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
17 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>>>> Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can > >>>>> install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Wright writes: > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): >> >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, >> > etc., but get no security or str

Re: Apt vs apt-get [Was: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?]

2017-07-20 Thread Fungi4All
> Op 20-07-17 om 18:58 schreef Fungi4All: >> Does it matter what we all think, even if agree or it matters what >> the manual of the package says. In my installation this is manual >> I found, it says apt all over the place, meanwhile there is apt-get >> package to install. /usr/share/man/man8/apt-

Re: Apt vs apt-get [Was: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?]

2017-07-20 Thread Frank
Op 20-07-17 om 18:58 schreef Fungi4All: Does it matter what we all think, even if agree or it matters what the manual of the package says. In my installation this is manual I found, it says apt all over the place, meanwhile there is apt-get package to install. /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz

Re: Apt vs apt-get [Was: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?]

2017-07-20 Thread Fungi4All
> From: deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Agreed. I was beginning to despair of this list while reading through > this thread. But we seem to live in times when evidence matters less > and less, and assertion more and more. > Sorry about the politics. Anyway, AFAICT acco

Re: Apt vs apt-get [Was: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?]

2017-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Jul 2017 at 21:21:08 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 20.07.17 03:27, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2017-07-19 23:33 (UTC-0500): > > > > > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > > >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-g

Apt vs apt-get [Was: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?]

2017-07-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.07.17 03:27, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2017-07-19 23:33 (UTC-0500): > > > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > > > I did. Where does it say that? > > It was a long time ago that I

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-20 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2017-07-19 23:33 (UTC-0500): > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > I did. Where does it say that? It was a long time ago that I first encountered it, and don't remember where it was. I

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Dejan Jocic
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >>> Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > >>> apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > > >>> find this unusual. Did a mail list archive search f

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread davidson
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find this unusual. And so, understandably, you feel prompted to seek confirmation that there have, in fac

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): > > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 07:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:27 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 07/19/2017 01:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:13:06 -0400 Fungi4All wrote: > From: nemomm...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:32:04 -0400 Dan Ritter > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > Getting no results from ap

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:27 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 07/19/2017 01:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic > > wrote: > > > >> On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> Getting no results from apt-get upg

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Brian
... > > 27 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Need to get 68.5 MB of archives.> After this operation, 242 MB of > > additional disk space will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > Abort. > > > $ sudo apt-

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
of archives.> After this operation, 242 MB of additional > disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > $ sudo apt-get upgrade ... > 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > Need to get 21.1 MB of archives. > After this op

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Fungi4All
a-libs 27 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 68.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 242 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Read

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Fungi4All
> From: a...@cityscape.co.uk > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 16:20:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > One picture is worth a thousand words: > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Which should be trusted more. apt-get or apt? I've always liked apt. It is four keystrokes shorter

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Fungi4All
From: nemomm...@gmail.com > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:32:04 -0400 Dan Ritter > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install >> > apps, etc., but get no security or

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Brian
ll. All I > can > say is I have a bunch of Stretch installations, and there were several > occasions > where, in order to see if differences were possible, after an 'apt-get update; > apt-get upgrade' I immediately followed up with 'apt update; apt upgrade' and >

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:57:50 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): > > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > > f

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 01:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find this unu

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:32:04 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > >

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > > find this unusual. Did a ma

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:54:28 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >Those sort of statements are begging for an example of the diferences >with an upgrade or package installation. Will we see it? I seem to recall there have been several examples over the past year or so on this very list. A search

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
ore the previous state so as to be able to actually have a chance to find what happened to cause it and subsequently be able to repeat at will. All I can say is I have a bunch of Stretch installations, and there were several occasions where, in order to see if differences were possible, after an '

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Fungi4All
x User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ This is on sid: I know a static picture from a system already upgraded is no indicator but I run 4 commands out of curiocity and got identical 4 responses about removing some no longer needed pkgs which I do not all want to be

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 15:49:47 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Fungi4All composed on 2017-07-19 15:18 (UTC-0400): > > >> mrma...@earthlink.net composed: > ... > >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > > > But will there be different results with apt upgrade than with apt-get?

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
Fungi4All composed on 2017-07-19 15:18 (UTC-0400): >> mrma...@earthlink.net composed: ... >> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > But will there be different results with apt upgrade than with apt-get? Will: I have no idea. Can:Yes. Apt and apt-get are not identica

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 15:18:20 -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > > From: mrma...@earthlink.net > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): > >> Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Fungi4All
> From: mrma...@earthlink.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): >> Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, >> etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 19-07-17, Felix Miata wrote: > Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): > > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find > > this unusual. Did a

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick Bartek composed on 2017-07-19 10:29 (UTC-0700): > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find > this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but didn't find

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find > this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but did

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, > etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find > this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but didn't find > anything

Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I find this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but didn't find anything specific. Or did I miss the solution? My Test Setup: Stretc

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-26 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:01:30AM +, Curt wrote: >> Because of the pedagogical interest of the thing, for those who come >> after us, for posterity's sake, I wanted the OP to give us a complete >> description of what occurred, rather than a misleading one

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
dering why FF was held back in the first place, if an 'apt-get > install' simply "went ahead and installed it." In stretch, the upgrade from firefox-esr 45.x to 52.x requires a new Depends: package, named libjsoncpp1. If you are on stretch with firefox-esr 45.x and you do &

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-25, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 19:44:27 (+), Curt wrote: >> On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain wrote: >> > >> > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and >> > installed it. >> > >> >> Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 19:44:27 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and > > installed it. > > > > Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're not > leaving anything out, are you? > > --

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain wrote: > > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and > installed it. > Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're not leaving anything out, are you? -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdo

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:40:59PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 06/21/2017 04:56 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > >Can someone point me at where to look to see why I can't upgrade iceweasel? > > > Have you tried typing "apt-get install firefox-esr"? It should tell > you why it's held back. Duh, I'm an id

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-21, Carl Fink wrote: > On 06/21/2017 04:56 PM, Mike McClain wrote: >> When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: >> The following packages have been kept back: >>firefox-esr >> and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. >&g

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread deloptes
Mike McClain wrote: > When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: > The following packages have been kept back: > firefox-esr > and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. > Can someone point me at where to look to see why I can't upgrade > ic

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread davidson
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Mike McClain wrote: When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: The following packages have been kept back: firefox-esr and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. Can someone point me at where to look to see why I can't upgrade iceweasel?

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:56:45 -0700 Mike McClain wrote: > When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: > The following packages have been kept back: > firefox-esr > and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. > Can someone point me at where to look t

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
On 06/21/2017 04:56 PM, Mike McClain wrote: When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: The following packages have been kept back: firefox-esr and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. Can someone point me at where to look to see why I can't upgrade icewe

apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-21 Thread Mike McClain
When I do 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following: The following packages have been kept back: firefox-esr and firefox/iceweasel is what I was hoping to upgrade. Can someone point me at where to look to see why I can't upgrade iceweasel? Thanks, Mike -- As Andy Capp's wif

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-28 Thread Alex Moonshine
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:44:10 + (UTC) John DeVito wrote: > I ran into an issue today where X is not working after andupgrade of > Stretch.  The pervasive errorI am seeing is related to dbus-core. > Xorg.0.log says ... Failed to connect to > socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket.  Manual attem

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-12 Thread James Richardson
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2015-10-09 22:24 +0200, James Richardson wrote: > >> I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without >> any keyboard or mouse. >> [snip] > > Actually, if you were running systemd, logind would grant access to the &

apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs (was ... Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages.)

2015-10-10 Thread Chris Bannister
I've seen recently is: apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs So, e.g. to make upgrading easier: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs apt-get dist-upgrade It allows a finer control on the upgrade process, and therefore, IMHO, less chance for something to go wrong, but

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/9/15, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:24:31 -0400 > James Richardson wrote: > >> I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but >> without any keyboard or mouse. > > This has a serious bug (798097) linked to logind, which may be also >

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 09.10.2015 um 23:48 schrieb Sven Joachim: > Actually, if you were running systemd, logind would grant access to the > input devices. Since this is apparently not what you want, your best > bet is probably to install the xserver-xorg-legacy package which now > contains the setuid wrapper. Right

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-10-09 22:24 +0200, James Richardson wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without > any keyboard or mouse. > > I am writing this to perhaps help the next person that runs into this. I > am also open to suggestions for action items

Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:24:31 -0400 James Richardson wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but > without any keyboard or mouse. > This has a serious bug (798097) linked to logind, which may be also responsible for your problem: > [44.668] xorg-ser

X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread James Richardson
I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without any keyboard or mouse. I am writing this to perhaps help the next person that runs into this. I am also open to suggestions for action items to take away to possible raise a bug report. I may have missed a changelog, but

Re: apt-get upgrade fails on custom repository

2015-09-03 Thread Stefano Pugnetti
Ok, I figured it out: lines containing md5sums of index files must start with a blank character. Stefano

apt-get upgrade fails on custom repository

2015-09-03 Thread Stefano Pugnetti
hical structure (dists/my-dist/my-component/binary-my-arch), a dists/Release file and its gpg dists/Release.gpg signature. On the client side I added a .list file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with just one line: deb uri-of-my-repo my-dist my-component When I launch `sudo apt-get upgrade`, the Releas

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
ave you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try the first and tell us the results. Thanks! Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail wrote: Hi, > >I was wondering why an &qu

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
a good reason > for having upgrade and dist-upgrade. > > Regards > ML > > > On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > Some packages won't be upgraded by the

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
t;apt-get dist-upgrade"? Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try the first and tell us the results. Thanks! Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail wrote: Hi, > >I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade&q

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
Hi, have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try the first and tell us the results. Thanks! Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I was wonde

apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi, I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below: shell$ apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been

Re: how to force a "hold" on a missing package during an apt-get upgrade

2015-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
the purged packages > > as "hold" and doing a "--set-selections", > > but it has side effects (all mysql dependent > > packages get uninstalled in the apt-get upgrade) > > A simpler way then using --get and --set selections is > > apt-mark hold|unhold

Re: how to force a "hold" on a missing package during an apt-get upgrade

2015-03-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
mi-fix of getting a > "--get-selections", adding the purged packages > as "hold" and doing a "--set-selections", > but it has side effects (all mysql dependent > packages get uninstalled in the apt-get upgrade) > > So, is there a way to for "a

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