Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
actually you can do:
apt-get --dry-run
and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started
using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use:
apti
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> actually you can do:
>
> apt-get --dry-run
>
> and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started
> using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use:
>
> aptitude --simula
Mumia W.. wrote:
On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote:
Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if
it's just printing uris.
:-O
Why you're right!
Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes
without damaging the system. Thanks.
actu
On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote:
Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if
it's just printing uris.
:-O
Why you're right!
Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes
without damaging the system. Thanks.
--
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ded and automatically cleaning up unused files and
packages.
Why mung that up with installs outside of aptitudes purview?
How about an alternate sources.list with different mirrors--if you really
need to get things done in the moment? When you switch it out, you'll get
flashy red error
On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:39:42 -0500
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Think of this as untested pseudocode for the first part of the process:
> mkdir /tmp/getem && ch /tmp/getem
> sudo apt-get --print-uris upgrade > getem.list
> wget --input-file=getem.list --tries=100 --continue
Nitpi
On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:39:42 -0500
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Perhaps you can use a slightly different procedure since your dialup is
> having problems. You can use "apt-get --print-uris upgrade" to get a
> list of URLs to download, and you can use wget to get the actual files
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:39:42AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 05/14/2008 11:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its
> >just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something.
> >I'm on dialup. How to prevent abso
On 05/14/2008 11:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm having trouble updating Etch:
I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its
just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something.
I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourag
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm having trouble updating Etch:
I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its
just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something.
I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage)
aptitude to re-issue
I'm having trouble updating Etch:
I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its
just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something.
I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage)
aptitude to re-issue requests.
Sometimes I get
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