Re: dselect/apt-get failed -- 6 year Debian installation corrupted

2003-11-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
binutils_2.12.90.0.1-4_i386.deb \ libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.3_i386.deb This failed as other packages depending on earlier versions of these packages (eg, perl-5.005) prevented even this forced installation. Further forcing with "dpkg" only revealed more problems. In the end, I s

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:12:00 -0400, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You may like aptitude; it has a similar (though more familiar to me) > user interface to dselect, I use the following as ~/.aptitude/config, which gives me pretty much the look and feel of dselect with aptitude

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
"DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man > apt.conf' for all the details. > > The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to > pick which version of a particular package I want to install when > multip

RE: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
--Original Message- From: R Ransbottom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dselect apt-get coordination How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect so that they "want" the same packages? If I understand the apt-get man page runn

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, R Ransbottom wrote: > How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect > so that they "want" the same packages? > > If I understand the apt-get man page > running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will > set up the system per the setting last > made using dselect. Correct? yes > How do yo

dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread R Ransbottom
How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect so that they "want" the same packages? If I understand the apt-get man page running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will set up the system per the setting last made using dselect. Correct? How do you the inverse? That is how do you alter the dselect database

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
all packages, and that different tools give us > different information about dependency problems? You are using APT system with different user interfaces after all (You can defy this but that is beyond normal use). dselect, apt-get, aptitude all get affected by /etc/apt/preferences Some op

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:42:24 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ aptitude install bleh > > instead of > > $ apt-get install bleh > > Also, aptitude doesn't ignore Suggests and Recommends, like apt-get > does. > And for others not yet familiar with aptitude, you can use it to brows

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:24:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So > > that is in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok,

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:37:05AM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > I'll look at mplayer, thanks! Christian has lots of stuff of 'dubious legality' on his site, most of which is also built for stable. Have a poke around, I'm sure there's some other stuff that will interest you. Another good place t

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi Mpiktas, > You can install mplayer for playing AVI files. Just add to sources.list > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > and do > > apt-cache get mplayer-{your_architecture} > > apt-cache search mplayer > > will show architectures available. > > > Or you can download mplayer sources

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrade 244 > > packages, install 26 and remove 34 and leave 3 not upgraded. I

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles dependen

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrad

dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi there! I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles de

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me, I keep a minimal woody on another partition :) Yeah, it's always good to have a backup woody in case your primary one breaks. After all, you always want to minimize your woody's downtime. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! msg13145/p

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > > cope wi

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:45:19PM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. > > Sarca

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Very nice writeup. > > Question, what if you want foo from unstable and it requires a version > of bar in unstable but your existing bar is from testing? What if bar > isn't installed at all and the requirement is going to

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
han E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:13:58 -0600 > From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/245342 > > On

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there are s

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:22:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I know Brian who complained this in -devel list was rightfully pissed at > the care taken by the uploader and he can deal with this situation > without problem. Most interesting part of Colin's comment is > > This may sound callous, bu

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. Sarcasm, my man, Sarcasm. :) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Craig Dickson wrote: > What's wrong with compiling from source? If you download the Debian > source package, it should have everything you need to build a proper > deb package, so what's the problem? Even if you don't build a deb, you > just install to /usr/local, and as long as you don't break an

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there a

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Mark A. Bialik wrote: > ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages > and/or versions of packages they need are only in unstable. > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) What's wro

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread nate
Colin Watson said: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those people > who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only people who > should be using unstable. speak for yourself :) I suggested a fix to someone who had this problem and they said it worked f

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:26:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > people who should be using unstable. Exatly :-) Where is chroot. I think it is lack of sim

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Colin Watson wrote: > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > cope with this kind of thing (after all, it was "just" everything > wri

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Colin Watson wrote: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > people who should be using unstable. ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages and/or versions of pack

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:22:25AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > The problem is simply that the library file was misnamed to > > libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3. > > This may be easy enough for some people to fix, but how exactly do > explain to the common man how to fix it when t

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Brian Nelson wrote: > The problem is simply that the library file was misnamed to > libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3. This may be easy enough for some people to fix, but how exactly do explain to the common man how to fix it when the basic tools (dselect and apt-get) no longer work? At least on my system

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. And for every other C++ program you have... > any thoughts?? Beat maintain

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
nate wrote: iain d broadfoot said: apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? find the package that has that fil

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread nate
iain d broadfoot said: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. > > / > > any thoughts?? find the package that has that file(us

argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? i'm scared to reboot in case it doesn't come back at all. (shivers horri

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-12 Thread gob
At 10:50 07/04/02 -0700, you wrote: > "gob" == gob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gob> If all else fails, I'll see my brother about Woody CD gob> upgrades. If that means that you're certain you're running something older than Woody, then I'd suggest you upgrade to Woody before you do

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-07 Thread gob
At 09:22 07/04/02 -0700, Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can think of two ways you might get that version of X running: * Look at http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xserver-common.html to see what other packages you might need -- I'll bet you need xserver-xfree86. Download a

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
gob wrote: Yes it is coming quite clear now. The update is my only path. This minutes Google search gives me hope for getting the dialup going. I had a plan to sidestep this winmodem issue as well, if necessary-I have a PC card modem. Strangely enough, when I was installing Debian for th

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Yes it is coming quite clear now. The update is my only path. This minutes Google search gives me hope for getting the dialup going. I had a plan to sidestep this winmodem issue as well, if necessary-I have a PC card modem. Strangely enough, when I was installing Debian for the first time,

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:02:50PM +, gob wrote: > Ah sorry I do believe I have potato. Maybe thats the origin of this > quandry. That's quite a different story. There are a LOT of GRAVE dependency problems involved with installing that X-4.1.deb on potato. You must instead upgrade the whole

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Ah sorry I do believe I have potato. Maybe thats the origin of this quandry. Thank you Hans, many constructive comments. I had envisaged working through all these installation glitches, then reinstalling the whole system once I was sure what files I needed. As time passes its becoming obviou

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
Thanks for your help Kent. The Xfree86-server, xbase-clients etc were installed a few weeks ago as part of the main installation. X was nearly going on this computer-I could see the Debian motif but resolution was wrong, hence updating of these drivers, not the whole system. I was expecting

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:07:33PM +, gob wrote: > I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother > has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I assume you have Debian 3.0 aka 'woody' by the version number on the xfree86 below. 'Woody' can b

Re: Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread Kent West
gob wrote: I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I am trying to get X going, and through some research found that I need XFree86 4.1 for it to work with my LCD screen. He gave me a CD wit

Newbie:dpkg,dselect,apt?

2002-04-06 Thread gob
I am an absolute beginner (hadn't touched Linux two weeks ago). My brother has installed Debian (kernel 2.2.19) on a partition of my laptop. I am trying to get X going, and through some research found that I need XFree86 4.1 for it to work with my LCD screen. He gave me a CD with xfree86-com

Re: dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Berthold Cogel wrote: > > Hello! > > Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). > After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get > dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages > about unmet dependencies. All of them covere

dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-23 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages about unmet dependencies. All of them covered programs I have already installed

dselect/apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread Dominique Rousset
Hello, I'm using woody from ftp.fr.debian.org. Since this morning update may obsolete/local list of packages has abnormally become large. In fact, there should be nearly only console-tool in it. Now every package beginning with a letter between m and z in th alphabetical order has become obso

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-21 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:01:21AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Well, the problem was that I wanted to install qmail from the author's > pristine sources, so it couldn't really be under dpkg management. > > Basically, I needed equivs to satisfy the dependencies. > > What was weird is, you ca

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-21 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon. > You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail > instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically > r

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon. > You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail > instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically >

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:40:09PM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat > to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways, > I ran into a problem with during the configuration (after installation), > and be

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:48:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy. Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways, I ran into a problem with

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 11:07:24AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy. > install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it > install recommended and

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect as > little as possible. So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it install

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect > as little as possible. I agree, but sometimes it's nice to have that full-screen interface. That's why i *love* console-apt. It's so nice i use it for

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:02:16PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Why is it so hard to decline a "recommends" dependency? [snip dselect experience we have all had] > AGH! I have declined the recommendation. WHY WON'T DESELECT > JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! Reccommends == Depends as far as dselect

why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
Why is it so hard to decline a "recommends" dependency? In dselect (using the apt method), if I select a package A that recommends a package B, dselect switches to the dependency- resolution screen with package B selected. If I simply deselect B and exit normally (with Return), dselect retur

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > trick. But what then is the function of the apt.conf file? What am I > missing out on? I like fiddling in conf files You fiddled it wrong.. That config file is not ment for general use, it does 'weird' things. Jason

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello On 17-Jan-2000 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > >> If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the >> following problem after the package files have been downloaded: > > 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' > > Jason > I moved the apt.conf f

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the > following problem after the package files have been downloaded: 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' Jason

dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Rele

RE: dselect + apt method do not mount /usr ro when removing a pa

2000-01-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Jan-2000 Shaul Karl wrote: > Am I correct that dselect apt method does not handle /usr which is mounted ro > correctly when it tries to remove a package? > you are correct, there are some issues about when parts get run and what not. A co-worker fought this for a while. Even

dselect + apt method do not mount /usr ro when removing a package?

2000-01-14 Thread Shaul Karl
Am I correct that dselect apt method does not handle /usr which is mounted ro correctly when it tries to remove a package? Although I have [21:28:22 /tmp]$ grep Pre-Invoke /etc/apt/apt.conf Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; [21:28:32 /tmp]$ when trying to remove

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

2000-01-01 Thread Brian May
> "Arcady" == Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arcady> Yes, I did that. However, when I select "Install", I still Arcady> get the same thing: What does dpkg -l and/or apt-get install do? where is one that is installed, and selected to be installed, but apt-get is tryi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:51:50PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote > John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > See my reply to this list under the subject > > > Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) > > > > I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. > > Please be careful

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See my reply to this list under the subject > > Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) > > I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. > Please be careful to get the right message: I also posted > an awk script that was broken en

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried > looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file > for dselect or apt, but alas... how about the status* files in /var/lib/dpkg ? -- hafi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:57:48AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > > I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to > install a package with dselect now, it wants

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? > > Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those > files to ins

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread John Carline
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those files to install (+) rather than remove

dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to install a package with dselect now, it wants to remove the 40 packages along with installing the new ones. This happ

Re: Installing Potato with dselect apt

1999-12-21 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:16:53AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. > When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing > programs that deselect refuses to continue... > > I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install

Installing Potato with dselect apt

1999-12-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing programs that deselect refuses to continue... I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install the default 50 or so. Has anyone done this lately? This is not an upg

dselect apt-get dpkg explanations

1999-12-01 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Does anybody know about a really good explanation of the combined use of dselect, apt-get and dpkg, especially after you have made a mess of everything ? The documentation I found in the slink distribution is either introductory or incomplete or referring to each other or to non-existent man pages

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-28 Thread John
on 27 Sep 99, Colin Marquardt wrote... >* John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' >> Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the = > >> examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should install the dpkg-multicd package and than choose the multi_cd > access methode in dselect. or you could do as I was advised, get apt-0.3.12, compile it your self and follow the apt-cdrom man page. works swell on debian-hamm. solved all the probl

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' > Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the > examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect > to adjust the original installation (for some

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-26 Thread Martin Fluch
You should install the dpkg-multicd package and than choose the multi_cd access methode in dselect. Martin On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, John wrote: > I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' > Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the > examples g

dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-26 Thread John
I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect to adjust the original installation (for some reason not all slink packages on the second C

RE: Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewa

1999-08-27 Thread Brian McGroarty
> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > Is there something more I should have to use the potato apt > > with 2.1? > > > > I installed and configured apt as below. I can fetch via > > http proxy just fine. But immediately after fetching,

Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewa

1999-08-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Is there something more I should have to use the potato apt with 2.1? > > I installed and configured apt as below. I can fetch via http proxy just > fine. But immediately after fetching, apt (or dselect?) returns with > "/bin/sh: /bin/sh: cannot exec

Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewa

1999-08-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
rite (32 Broken pipe)" --- Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:14:02 -0600 (MDT) > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewal

Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall

1999-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to > ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > password whatever.) You need APT from potato (can get a slink version at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.3.11.1_i3

dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall

1999-08-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is it possible to use dselect/apt via a non network address translating (proxying) firewall? Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password whatever.) Unfortunately our syste

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-08-02 Thread Nate Duehr
t the same time? (Is this odd to you? In dselect, they both show as installed, and the lower one shows that it's up-to-date...) - Menu version 2.1.2-3 - Hardware: AMD K6-2 350/96MB RAM (in case it matters...) Here's the output of dselect/apt when it hung this time. This time I was RE

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-07-29 Thread Nate Duehr
m Joopje about Update-menus problem below -- (copying to Bug 42051, as it's the same) >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 28 11:10:34 1999 Subject: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get > I'm copying the package maintainer on this since I didn't see anything > in t

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-07-28 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> Anyone have any other ideas on how to catch what's happening Nate> to it, or is this a known issue being discussed elsewhere, and Nate> I don't see it because I only am subscribed to Debian-User? I saw something about this in debi

Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-07-28 Thread Nate Duehr
to be having a recurring problem with Update-menus hanging and stopping everything right after packages are unpacked by dselect/apt. The output is... Upacking replacement foo ... Update-menus[PID]: further output (if any) will appear in /tmp/update-menus.PID ... where PID is the PID of a copy

Re: dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate > partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for > this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell > dselect that I was mounting from a directo

dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread fairfax
I am having a bit of trouble getting some packages installed from the slink distribution. I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell ds

help! dselect / apt-get segmentation fault!

1999-05-10 Thread Yifang Dai
help! dselect / apt-get segmentation fault on me... Here is the output when I run dselect/install: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: nvi-m17n-common systune nvi-m17n 16 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove

Dselect (apt-get update) segfaults...

1999-04-02 Thread feedle
I've been trying to install Sparc Debian on an IPC, and it is driving me nuts. dselect (specifically, the apt-get update part) segfaults at the point it says "Checking system integrity...ok". Any help would be appreciated. -Chris

RE: Dselect apt method removes files when you select install?

1999-03-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Mar-99 Jim Foltz wrote: > Hi, > > I use apt to keep up with slink. I used dselect/apt-method and selcted 2 > files > to purge. I then selected INSTALL from dselect and it proceeded to remove the > packages. I did not select any new packages to install, so I assumed th

Dselect apt method removes files when you select install?

1999-03-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, I use apt to keep up with slink. I used dselect/apt-method and selcted 2 files to purge. I then selected INSTALL from dselect and it proceeded to remove the packages. I did not select any new packages to install, so I assumed that INSTALL would simply report that there were 0 packages to

dselect/apt: Error 550: not a plain file?

1999-02-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
I'm using the dselect/apt/dpkg combo to download and install new packages in potato from ftp.us.debian.org. My system is already slink/potato, from earlier downloads from potato. Yesterday I tried to download a large number of packages. Some were sucessfully downloaded, but a

Re: upgrading slink cripples dselect/apt (and X) !!!

1998-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > dselect: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info Give this one a try: ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/libstdc++2.9_2.91.59-2_i386.deb Good luck, Brandon +---

upgrading slink cripples dselect/apt (and X) !!!

1998-11-29 Thread Zack Brown
Help! I upgraded some packages this morning, and now running dselect gives the following error: dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info Also, X gives graphics screen and mouse cursor, then craps out, giving the same er

Re: Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Pete Harlan
Torsten writes: > Probably the dselect database are not updated by apt-get. Try the apt > select method in dselect and do an update (using the apt method). Are > the packages still shown as obsolete? Yes, they're still obsolete. The update succeeded, to all appearances. --Pete

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