Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-30 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade? > > Thanks, > Amit full-upgrade is a synonym for dist-upgrade (se

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Oct.08, 09:52:36, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:58:51 +0300 > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > > > but from the GUI

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:58:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > > aptitude gui,

Re: That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:23:48AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically d

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade? full-upgrade and dist-upgrade are th

Re: That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > [snip] > > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > > TUI (text user

That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: [snip] I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from TUI (text user interface). aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade? -- Ron Johns

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:48:02 +0300 "Giorgos D. Pallas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > > > Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do > > minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade > > completely, potentially breaking everything.

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:53:04AM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > I'm pretty sure I need a lot of those things to build certain audio and video > applications I use. I definitely need mkisofs. Will these be uninstallable > afterwards? Or is it just these versions? "apt-cache show mkisofs" says it is a du

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-24 09:48 +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude > update && aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude clean'. > The important thing is the full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade for the older > users ;-) ), which never, BUT NEVER, broke

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Rich Healey wrote: > > Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do > minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade > completely, potentially breaking everything. I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude update && aptitud

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:53:04AM -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ron Johnson wrote: > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a libcamel1.2-8 libgtkhtml3.8-15 cupsys-common > libgail17 libc-client2002ed

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:54:05AM -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not > > Bless you ;) > > Anyhow, I tried that with hal, and it just told me that hal did not have to be > removed.

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
JoeHill wrote: > Hi, > > Very new to Debian, so far so very very good. > > Running Debian Testing, having to relearn a lot as I'm coming from an > RPM-based > distro. This one I don't want to leave to trial and error, though. > > The update applet is telling me there are updates available, but

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JoeHill wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: >>> JoeHill wrote: >>> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question..

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/08 01:53, JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > JoeHill wrote: > > > >> Question is, is there some way to find o

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/08 01:53, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: JoeHill wrote: Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/08 01:39, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip] I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not Or a Culture War: I'll give you my apt-get when you take it from my cold, dead hands! -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remembe

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > > > >> are preventing HAL from being installed

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > >>> JoeHill wrote: > >>> > Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: JoeHill wrote: Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run th

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > > >> are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? > > >> Not s

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > JoeHill wrote: > > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > >> preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not > >> sure. > > > > ...forgot to mention, I did run the 's

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: JoeHill wrote: Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the 'proposed rem

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
JoeHill wrote: > Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm con

cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Hi, Very new to Debian, so far so very very good. Running Debian Testing, having to relearn a lot as I'm coming from an RPM-based distro. This one I don't want to leave to trial and error, though. The update applet is telling me there are updates available, but I get an error that 'not all upda