Re: conflicting packages

2008-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-10 13:27 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It appears emacs 21 and dictionaries-common have a fight going on and > dpkg is caught in the middle. Could you please elaborate what the problem is? I.e., post the error messages here. > This is the second time I ran into > their squabble. Wh

conflicting packages

2008-04-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
It appears emacs 21 and dictionaries-common have a fight going on and dpkg is caught in the middle. This is the second time I ran into their squabble. Does anyone know what the back story is and if there's likely to be a treaty signed in the near future? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Conflicting Packages (Diversion conflicts) with Both Uninstalled

2007-05-18 Thread Knight Of Staves
I am having a problem with two packages, nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-glx-new (and it's on an upgrade to Ubuntu Feisty -- I tried a new driver). I tried to remove both of them so I could reinstall them. Supposedly neither one is installed and I've tried using dpkg with remove and purge to get rid

Conflicting Packages: Developing an OpenGL app.

2004-03-18 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I am trying to develop this game under Debian Woody 3.0r2 (very cutomized though) using plib and the OpenGL libraries. To run the application I need mesag3. The thing is that when I do an "apt-get install mesag3" (using the unstable releases) apt tells me that it needs to get rid of the fol

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-02 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 08:41 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > Use the grep-dctrl package. Example, to see all packages with > priority required do > > grep-available -Fpriority required -sPackage | less > > and you get a list of packages you don't want to mess with. Never > try to upgrade these packa

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:11:26 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's longer ago I wanted to install a package from source. I > don't remember what kind of source-tarball I installed by using > auto-apt, but it was a developer version, the newest available. Ok, but learn

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2002 22:11 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: > How can I directly see that I have to do with a _base_ -package, > like libc6 or coreutils? .. that I have to deal with a a _base_ -package... sorry about my broken english :-( regards gerhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 23:08 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils > > [...]You are about to do something potentially harmful > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I s

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:52:06 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha: >> though. What does apt-get -u upgrade >> currently say? > > Hello Faheem, > > Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten > the '

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > coreutils > WARNING: The following essential packages will

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hello Faheem, Am Montag, 30. September 2002 17:52 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: > I don't knoww if it's possible > to remove it. If it's possible I think I have to reinstall > shellutils, textutils, and fileutils. debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dep

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > though. What does apt-get -u upgrade > currently say? Hello Faheem, Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten the 'coreutils-packages' of sarge (shellutils and textutils) with their newest versions. That means

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:52:42 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian:/home/gerhard# apt-cache show coreutils | grep shellutils > Replaces: textutils, shellutils, fileutils, stat > Provides: textutils, shellutils, fileutils > > I think it's impossible to remove coreutils now.

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:52:42 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:23 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: >> What can I do now to progress with dist-upgrade. > I did > dpkg --force-overwrite -i shellutils_2.0.12-2_i386.deb > dpkg --force-overwrite -i textut

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-29 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:23 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: > What can I do now to progress with dist-upgrade. I did dpkg --force-overwrite -i shellutils_2.0.12-2_i386.deb dpkg --force-overwrite -i textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb Now the dist-upgrade is progressing. coreutils are only available in

dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-29 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi all, I got a wired problem upgrading woody to sarge. I'm not able to upgrade shellutils. I had setup preferences and sources list for pinning with unstable. This might be the reason of my problem. Now I got only testing and stable/upgrade (security) in my sources list and I moved preferenc

Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to >> read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must >> drive the original package off the system to install the new package >> just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8 >> woody

Re: Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages?

2002-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages? File a bug. > OK, I suppose I will manually have to disconnect leafnode from the NNTP > port and connect noffle. Why not just shut down or remove the one you aren't using? > I still

Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages?

2002-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
I installed noffle but emacs' gnus still connects to leafnode. Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages? OK, I suppose I will manually have to disconnect leafnode from the NNTP port and connect noffle. BTW I still haven't met an offline reader that can ha

Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread patrick
--- Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want > to > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > drive the original package off the system to install the new package > just for a look, or otherwise jump th

Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:31:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to > > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > > drive the original pac

Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:31:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > drive the original package off the system to install the new package > just for a look, or o

RE: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote: > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > drive the original package off the system to install the new package > just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops?

see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must drive the original package off the system to install the new package just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8 woody CD's and no net