Re: dpkg error messages [was: dselect and apt-get error messages]

2002-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:56:24PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:25:31PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error > > messages: > > > > - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration > > - When

dpkg error messages [was: dselect and apt-get error messages]

2002-11-02 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:25:31PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error > messages: > > - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration > - When I use apt-get install dpkg apt debconf: Couldn't configure a >

dselect and apt-get error messages

2002-10-29 Thread Simon Pepping
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error messages: - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration - When I use apt-get install dpkg apt debconf: Couldn't configure a pre-depend I am running woody, with these versions: ii apt0.3.19

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > $ apt-get install apt-cache > $ man apt-cache > $ apt-cache search foo The first step should yield an error messages -- it isn't necessary, because apt-cache is part of the apt package (dpkg -S apt-cache). In addition, one could mention `apt-cache show

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
Please set your mailer line wrap to 72 characters. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While > this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name,

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-18 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is > great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a > better way? I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually j

dselect and apt-get

2000-09-18 Thread paul
Hi Guys, I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a better way? From time to time I drop in to dselect to be able to search and find packages, but if I try to select and install from d