Re: dselect install of deb package -- Where is it?

2005-07-17 Thread Bill Marcum
perplexed by what the data below > mean: > > localhost:/home/sher/DOWNLOADS# dselect install kradio_1.0beta1_kde34_i386.deb > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Do you want to eras

dselect install of deb package -- Where is it?

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
r one, then the later one (please remember that I am using the latest files from Etch). But apparently, kradio never installed. I am perplexed by what the data below mean: localhost:/home/sher/DOWNLOADS# dselect install kradio_1.0beta1_kde34_i386.deb Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depen

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:12, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: > > > > marvin:/home/nick# dselect install > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Depen

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: [SNIP] Updating mozilla chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 68: une xpected EOF while looking for matching

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:36:28 -0500 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > May I ask how you knew about this? Did I not Goggle properly? > > Many thanks on your solution. Googling only works if something's been around long enough for them to find it and index it. Since we just started see

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nick Lidakis wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: [SNIP] Updating mozilla chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 68: une xpected EOF while looking for matching `}' [SNIP] There is a ty

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Nick! On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >Nick Lidakis wrote: > >>Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect > >>install: > >> > >> marvin:/home/nick# dsel

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread scott
On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:11 pm, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > NL> Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect > install: > > > NL> marvin:/home/nick# dselect install > NL> R

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL> Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: NL> I have Google'd, and can't seem to find anything relevant. I also tried NL> removing all of the mozilla packages using dpkg -P, and

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL> Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: NL> marvin:/home/nick# dselect install NL> Reading Package Lists... Done NL> Building Dependency Tree... Done NL> 0 upgraded, 0 newly install

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:38:16PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:15:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Not at all. I've never used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' - always dselect. :) > > right, i don't think dselect was the cause of the problem. i think > the problem was that he

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:15:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Not at all. I've never used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' - always dselect. :) right, i don't think dselect was the cause of the problem. i think the problem was that he removed all his previous stable sources and put in a bunch of testi

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:19:50PM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > Thanks for the responses, guys! > > The apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade took care of it. > I guess it was pretty naive of me to just run dselect... Not at all. I've never used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' - always dselect. :) -- Co

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread Lukas Latz
Thanks for the responses, guys! The apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade took care of it. I guess it was pretty naive of me to just run dselect... The error also does come up with apt-get update but there it doesn't hang the install script. Makes all the difference :-) Lukas ___

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:46:23AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > The download ran for quite a while and then a preconfigure script > broke off the message that's below. I've seen config scripts fail > before, but usually that doesn't stall the dselect, this one does -- I > had to ctrl-c -- now my var/

Re: dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread sean finney
heya, to upgrade a system, i'd do apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade both before running dselect. actually, i wouldn't use dselect at all but that's personal preference. either way, the only error that i'd be concerned about from your post is: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:46:23AM -0800,

dselect install get's stuck with console-data config -- please help!

2002-12-07 Thread Lukas Latz
Hi, I just switched from Debian Woody stable to testing (by substituting the 'stable' in /etc/sources.list with 'testing' - I hope that's the right way). This seemed to go quite smoothly. Afterward the initial dselect *update* and dselect *install* run had finished,

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:45:40 +0100 [...] > Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > > Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose > > these tasks: > > [*] Dialup Dialup utilities > > [*] Laptop

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and > not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind > looking for a high-level answer. I don't know about high-level; I can only make some observations. > Just

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Cymbala wrote: > I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas > the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!" > message) did not? Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task system does not (in the version of debian y

After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities

dselect install errors (mailcap/mime-support-compat)

2000-02-02 Thread Marc Sherman
I'm installing potato using dselect, and I'm getting two errors (during the setup for tar): Warning: could not open file '/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat' -- No such file or directory Warning: could not read '/etc/mailcap' (update stopped) -- No such file or directory Are these warning

Re: dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
ya! i too finally got my proliant 5500 with SMARTII RAID controller to work, but i installed from debian floppies. my method using potato (also did it with slink) boot floppies. 1.download kernel source and compile a new kernel with SNARTII compiled in 2.cp the kernel into /floppy/linux 3.edit

Re: dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
well as far as i know dselect will start out where it last left off and finish intalling the rest of the 130 Megs, i'm not sure if it has installed these packages yet or not, i would guess not. if you are using apt mehtod of getting your debs then they will be downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives/

dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Carmine Lucarelli
Hi all. Searched the archives and checked out the dselect tutorial, but couldn't find a satisfactory answer. I installed Debian 2.1 a couple of days ago, and now want to install the suggested development packages. I get the package list through apt just fine, and was able to download (through d

Re: DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Persons
e-From: Lee Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 7:26 PMSubject: DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name I have just installed Debian with relative ease (Floppy boot, base system

DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name

1999-02-01 Thread Lee Harrison
I have just installed Debian with relative ease (Floppy boot, base system from Official CD Dist) however with DSELECT I am having difficulty -- How do I find out the Block Device Name requested when I then try to install packages from CD-ROM? Any assistance will be appreciated.  Thanks.   R