Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/15/09 16:46, Stephen Dewey wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/15/09 16:22, Stephen Dewey wrote: Try: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 By the way, isn't this the linux image for Intel through P4? I am not sure if this is the right package for me, I am

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/15/09 16:22, Stephen Dewey wrote: >>> >>> Try: >>> # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 >>> >> >> By the way, isn't this the linux image for Intel through P4? I am not >> sure if this is the right package for me, I am running x86_64. una

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/15/09 16:22, Stephen Dewey wrote: Try: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 By the way, isn't this the linux image for Intel through P4? I am not sure if this is the right package for me, I am running x86_64. uname-a gives: Linux asystems 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Sun Sep 30 04:00:13 UTC 200

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
> Try: > # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 > By the way, isn't this the linux image for Intel through P4? I am not sure if this is the right package for me, I am running x86_64. uname-a gives: Linux asystems 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Sun Sep 30 04:00:13 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Any idea how I can

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
> Look for /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6*deb. > > I'd manually (dpkg -i") install install the relevant package then reboot and > try again following the Etch->Lenny instructions. > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't find /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6*deb, does that mean any

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread André Neves
> since it was apt-get, and not aptitude, that installed these 300 > packages, apt-get decided that they were wanted installs. But not > aptitude. Well, I guess they were mostly installed as some kind of dependencies anyway, because I can guarantee to you that I don't miss anything since the mass

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/15/09 13:15, Stephen Dewey wrote: [snip] Ok. Yeah I guess I should have done things a bit differently. Given that I started a different way, switching sources to Lenny and running an upgrade then a dist-upgrade that left "75 not fully installed or removed" packages, do you have any idea ho

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:15:52PM -0500, Stephen Dewey wrote: > this mess? I am tempted to simply install the new kernel as suggested > (apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686) and then run apt-get > dist-upgrade again to finish the process once that dependency is > resolved, but I am worried about m

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Stephen Dewey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Johannes Wiedersich > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Stephen Dewey wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > I am having trouble with the libfaac

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen Dewey wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:51:11PM -0200, André Neves wrote: > I had always used apt-get in my system, doing autoremove > whenever it suggested there were unneeded packages installed. One day > I ran aptitude out of curiosity, and well, it suggested to uninstall > almost 300 unneeded packages! sin

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread André Neves
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > From memory and the fact that now apt regularly nags me that certain packages > aren't needed anymore, and can be dropped with 'apt-get autoremove', I > *think* that the same (or similar) algorithms were implemented in apt, I disagree. I had a

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > André Neves wrote: > >> The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get. > > > > Sorry, preferred by who? > > By the debian developers. From > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > > > What is this aptitude thing

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/15/09 07:21, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [snip] IIRC, it's mainly the better algorithms to resolve dependencies and the ability to distinguish between packages that are automatically installed vs manually installed, that have been introduced in aptitude, but not in apt-get. From memory an

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread André Neves
> IIRC, it's mainly the better algorithms to resolve dependencies and the > ability to distinguish between packages that are automatically installed > vs manually installed, that have been introduced in aptitude, but not in > apt-get. Thanks for the info. I might turn aptitude into the canonical w

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André Neves wrote: >> The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get. > > Sorry, preferred by who? By the debian developers. From /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > What is this aptitude thing, anyway? > > aptitude is a featureful

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:59:23 -0200, André Neves (andrechale...@gmail.com) wrote: > > The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get. > > Sorry, preferred by who? "aptitude is now the preferred text front end for APT, the Advanced Package Tool" Read it in full here: htt

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread André Neves
> The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get. Sorry, preferred by who? André -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Dewey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to >>> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. >>> The libfaac0 package re

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/15/09 03:34, Stephen Dewey wrote: Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply upgrade to Lenny via the below? apt-get update apt-get -t stable upgrade apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade apt-get -t testing upgrade apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade (I am getting this fr

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Dewey
>> Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply >> upgrade to Lenny via the below? >> >> apt-get update >> apt-get -t stable upgrade >> apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade >> apt-get -t testing upgrade >> apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade >> >> (I am getting this from >> http://w

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Hutchinson
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Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 22:54, Stephen Dewey wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Stephen Dewey
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to >> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. >> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has >> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 22:39, Stephen Dewey wrote: I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distributio

essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Stephen Dewey
I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources list. However, after runn