On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:47:53PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> for purging installed packages, i usually use dselect. mark the package for purging
>and go ahead.
>
> will it have the same effect if i do:
>
> dpkg -P packagename
Mostly, yes. But dpkg doesn't automatically h
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:47:53PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> for purging installed packages, i usually use dselect. mark the
> package for purging and go ahead.
>
> will it have the same effect if i do:
>
> dpkg -P packagename
Yes, except that dselect handles more smoothly telling you ab
hello all
for purging installed packages, i usually use dselect. mark the package for purging
and go ahead.
will it have the same effect if i do:
dpkg -P packagename
thanx for help
sandip p deshmukh
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E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit:
> >
> > well, a front end, or whatever it is, but I can see it runs dpkg for
> > installing, removing,... so it's an interface for dpkg?
>
> Yes, but the `g' of gui stands for `graphical'. Anyway, I was just
I used graphical as anything that's not strictly command line.
>
> E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit:
[...]
> >
> > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. It is very nice of you to
> > call dselect a gui :)
Then replied Horacio:
>
> well, a front end, or whatever it is, but I can see it runs dpkg for
> installing, removing,... so it's an interface for dpkg?
E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit:
>
> You are trying too hard :) The package is elm-me+, the version is
> 2.4pl25ME+39-1. You don't need to tell dpkg which version to uninstall,
> there can only be one version installed, and dpkg knows which one that
> is, so just type:
Thanks.
>
> Dselect and dpkg and
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages:
>
> ~# dpkg -l
>
> ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader
>
> which means the package is installed, but:
>
> ~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1
> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to
Hi,
I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages:
~# dpkg -l
ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader
which means the package is installed, but:
~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+3
I have had 1.1 for awhile and have just tried to begin an upgrade to
1.3. I found a readme on ftp.debian.org which said:
do dpkg --clear-avail,
dpkg --install ldso_*.deb,
dpkg --install libc5_*.deb,
install dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb,
dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin,
and then to run
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote:
> >(BTW, LILO will not install on an extended
> > partition AFAIK)
>
> HI looked through the docs for this kind of limitation but
> didn't see anything that pointed to this fact. Will be checking this out
> again though.
Sure it will
for this task the command line looks like:
>
> loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
>
> If you use APPEND and have used rawrite2.exe to put the root.bin image
> onto a floppy, you probably want to change the initrd to =/dev/fd0.
Ahhh...OK, thanks for the tip! :-)
>
&g
for this task the command line looks like:
>
> loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
>
> If you use APPEND and have used rawrite2.exe to put the root.bin image
> onto a floppy, you probably want to change the initrd to =/dev/fd0.
Ahhh...OK, thanks for the tip! :-)
>
&g
APPEND and have used rawrite2.exe to put the root.bin image
onto a floppy, you probably want to change the initrd to =/dev/fd0.
> OK, I thought did I, no problem, I will just do a LILO manual install
with the LILO_19-2.deb
> file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Re
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> dpkg is at /usr/bin/dpkg; it is part of the base system, and essential, but
> I do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes
> lilo is in /sbin/lilo
>
Since the four base diskettes comprise the base system, they do indeed
c
>file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Read the inform
>ation on dpkg and
>dselect in the debian and install docs.booted the Rescue floppy and
>went into the shell.
>From what I can see, neither dpkg or dselect is included (or can be
T.BIN..still
the system won't boot.
OK, I thought did I, no problem, I will just do a LILO manual install with the
LILO_19-2.deb
file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Read the
information on dpkg and
dselect in the debian and install docs.booted the Rescue floppy
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