Aptitude woes

2005-05-13 Thread Leonard Green
I am having a very annoying problem. I have recently started using aptitude, love it over dselect, but there is one thing. Whenever i select packages and decide that i am going to close the program without installing anything, the program starts back up with those previously selected packages, t

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, Ah. Ok. Maybe it is a package dependency problem then, because when I do a 'dpkg -p aptitude' I show libncurses5 as a depends for aptitude. Do you have libncurses5 installed? What does the above command show on your system? I imagine you probably got it straight

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:05:24AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi, > > There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has > nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or > dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully >

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-06 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully installed. See if you can figure out how to fix it. dpkg --configure -a

aptitude woes

2001-08-06 Thread Rob Weir
I've just been playing around with aptitude, and when it finished downloading a few packages and began installing them, it came up with this error: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libncurses5 Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to reco