Re: aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

2016-02-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
s is that the trigger was > > phonon-backend-vlc > > that various KDE components depend on, notifications in particular. > > > I have the complete aptitude purge log in a file on disk so the names > > are readily available, but, there must be a more efficient way to

Re: aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

2016-02-25 Thread Felix Miata
> I have the complete aptitude purge log in a file on disk so the names > are readily available, but, there must be a more efficient way to > reinstall the 116 packages. > Is there a KDE meta-package that will install the majority of KDE that > was removed? Most of it will pr

Re: aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

2016-02-25 Thread The Wanderer
one of the others.) If you install either the GStreamer or the NULL backend before purging vlc, you should be able to avoid this massive removal set. > I have the complete aptitude purge log in a file on disk so the > names are readily available, but, there must be a more efficient way >

aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

2016-02-25 Thread Keith Christian
dependent on vlc? 116 removals just to get rid of one package is quite alot! I have the complete aptitude purge log in a file on disk so the names are readily available, but, there must be a more efficient way to reinstall the 116 packages. Is there a KDE meta-package that will install the majority

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-07 Thread jidanni
Daniel Burrows writes: > the bash completion stuff is actually stored in > /etc/bash_completion, which is part of the bash package. $ apt-file search /etc/bash_completion|wc -l 500 $ apt-file --fixed-string search /etc/bash_completion bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:38:43PM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > I did: > > > > # aptitude purge mplayer > > > > . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' &g

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did: > > # aptitude purge mplayer > > . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' > command, That's because bash reads the completion code only once, when it starts up. Try starting a

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did: > > # aptitude purge mplayer > > . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' > command, > and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there. > > Does this mean that not *all* the configuratio

A question about `aptitude purge' (was: Replacing a Debian package with the original source package)

2009-06-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I did: # aptitude purge mplayer . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' command, and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there. Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed `aptitude purge' to do? Thanks Rodolf

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
REMOVED: > telnet{a} <- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like > APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. > One must follow with a > # aptitude purge ~c > to clean up the mess. Not Read The Fine Manual? man 8 aptitude Th

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
ork like apt-get's. > > One must follow with a > > # aptitude purge ~c > > to clean up the mess. > > If I understand you correctly, you want all automatically removed > packages to get purged instead. I have the following in my > ~/.aptitude/config to do just tha

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
lled: > > telnet-ssl > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > telnet{a} <- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like > > APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. > > One must follow with a > > # aptitud

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-31 Thread Justin Jereza
> The following packages will be REMOVED: > telnet{a} <- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like > APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. > One must follow with a > # aptitude purge ~c > to clean up the mess. If I underst

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Yes, I'm saying I want a {p} but all I can get is an {a}. This is bug > 486454 apparently, which is quite easy to reproduce by installing back > and forth telnet and telnet-ssl back and forth back and forth. I never

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
hows its prompt. But that's not right either: the user should be able to cancel individual purges and have that stick. So I guess the only way out is to hack the backend so that when a hypothetical Aptitude::Purge is enabled, it flicks packages to "purge" when they're first marke

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
ollowing NEW packages will be installed: >> telnet-ssl >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> telnet{a} <- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like >> APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. >> One must fol

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
<- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like > APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. > One must follow with a > # aptitude purge ~c > to clean up the mess. > > You are not right. Purge is {p}, not {a}. -- Eugene V. Lyubimki

aptitude --purge

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
T::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. One must follow with a # aptitude purge ~c to clean up the mess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-24 Thread freeman
>Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without >actually purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer >version including its configuration? > >I cannot put the packages on hold since they are not installed and I >somet

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke wrote: Please don't send HTML email to the list. > > Hi, > > I recently removed the etch version of amanda and installed a newer one > because > of a blocksize problem which was resolved there. How did you install the "newer one"? > I

RE: aptitude purge

2008-08-20 Thread Tammo Schuelke
I usually do so (or create debian packages myself), but since they already provide amd64 Debian etch packages I just installed them with dpkg, e.g. http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/Amanda/2.6.0p1/Debian-Etch/amanda-backup-client_2.6.0p1-1_amd64.deb Unfortunately, the package has a diffe

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
ration? > > I cannot put the packages on hold since they are not installed and I > sometimes like to use aptitude purge ~c after uninstalling a lot of > packages... > >   > > Thanks, Tammo > >   -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without actually > purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer version including > its configuration? No. Daniel -

Re: [SOLVED] Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"

2008-06-19 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Florian Kulzer > Maybe you can recreate the /etc/mysql/conf.d/ directory and > the installation will be successful. That was one of the first things I tried but it didn't work out, it leads to more problems. > If that does not work then run > > dpkg -S etc/mysql > > to

Re: Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"

2008-06-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:46:41 -0700, S D wrote: > > That line in the script reads: > > > > echo -e "# created by > > debconf\n[mysqld]\nold_passwords = $RET" > > > /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf > > > > This does not seem to require that old_passwords.cnf exists > > beforehand. > > Is the

Re: Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"

2008-06-18 Thread S D
> That line in the script reads: > > echo -e "# created by > debconf\n[mysqld]\nold_passwords = $RET" > > /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf > > This does not seem to require that old_passwords.cnf exists > beforehand. > Is there still enough space on all the relevant partitions, Yes, free spac

Re: Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 18:34:53 -0700, S D wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason mysql fails to install after running "aptitude purge > mysql-server --purge-unused". I want a clean, fresh mysql installation > and don't care about what happens to the old mysql data/conf

Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"

2008-06-17 Thread S D
Hi, For some reason mysql fails to install after running "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused". I want a clean, fresh mysql installation and don't care about what happens to the old mysql data/config files/etc. It appears the install scrip is looking for the old &qu

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
THis got moved off-list accidently... summarizing below for posterity On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:47:10AM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> My System is Debian GNU/

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Csanyi
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:47:10AM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: >> Hello! >> >> My System is Debian GNU/Linux Etch and Half. >> >> I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and it works well with iceweasel >> so far. >> > ... > >> >> I can't to purge

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-15 Thread Oleg Batrashev
Hi, I've already answered in private but forgot to click "reply all" instead of "reply". >> >> I can't to purge nor remove flashplugin-nonfree with aptitude. > Paul , please provide details of what happens when you attempt to > remove aptitude. Preferably, copy and paste the console output > incl

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:47:10AM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > My System is Debian GNU/Linux Etch and Half. > > I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and it works well with iceweasel > so far. > ... > > I can't to purge nor remove flashplugin-nonfree with aptitude. > > Aptitude hang

aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! My System is Debian GNU/Linux Etch and Half. I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and it works well with iceweasel so far. Then I edit /apt/sources.list ---> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free ---< and setup apt to can use deb packages from Debian Ba