Re: what happened to console-apt?

2001-03-25 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Jay Salzman posts: > capt is like a kinder, gentler dselect. It is still there in a new *avatar* as a symlink to 'deity'. 'console-apt' is now a dummy package wrapper for it. > what does this error mean? how can i install console-apt? There is this package 'co

what happened to console-apt?

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, on one of my woody machines, i have console-apt (capt) installed, and i love it. capt is like a kinder, gentler dselect. on another one of my machines, everytime i try to install it, i get the error message: navalle:~# apt-get install console-apt Reading Package Lists... Done

console-apt and absolute paths

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
Hi, everytime I try to install something with console-apt (and aptitude) I get the message Package manager (dpkg) failed: * Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'bash-doc_2.03-6_all.deb' apt-get install works. Greetings Christoph

Re: console-apt

2000-08-20 Thread mike
Console-apt is in unstable packages on debian.org and aptitude can be had at sourceforge. The Stormix Package Manager .deb file is available from the Stormix distribution as a free d/l. On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dave Bresson wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:44:07 -0400 (EDT) > To:

Re: console-apt

2000-08-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dave Bresson wrote: > > > > how do you get console-apt? I can't find any package in potato named > 'console-apt'. Are you talking about aptitude maybe? Or is there some > other place i should look? > > oops, sorry to answ

console-apt

2000-08-20 Thread Dave Bresson
how do you get console-apt? I can't find any package in potato named 'console-apt'. Are you talking about aptitude maybe? Or is there some other place i should look? thanks, dave

Re: Can't install gnome-apt and console-apt

1999-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
The latest console-apt has changed the dependency to libapt-pkg2.6. This isn't there either, but is provided by apt 0.3.12, so it will unstall. Unfortunately gnome-apt in potato still has the dependency for libapt-pkg2.5. You should probably file a bug report on this against gnome-apt. Bo

Can't install gnome-apt and console-apt

1999-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Here's the screen dump: marvin:~# apt-get install gnome-apt console-apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that