Re: apt on kde like gnome-apt on gnome (kapt ?)

2001-07-25 Thread John Galt
kpackage. It's mostly aimed at RPMs, but it does debs pretty well (at least it did for Corel Linux when I played with it). On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know of a kde based dselect like there is gnome-apt for >gnome ? &

apt on kde like gnome-apt on gnome (kapt ?)

2001-07-25 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi, does anyone know of a kde based dselect like there is gnome-apt for gnome ? thanx Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

gnome-apt and free-amp in woody

2001-03-28 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. gnome-apt and freeamp seem to have dropped out of testing for the time being. Has anyone who is running woody tried using dpkg to install either of these from sid or are there dependency problems? I guess I could live without themjust wondering though. Thanks, Glen

gnome-apt & CD Sets

2000-12-28 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I'm using gnome-apt from the potato release in conjunction with a CD set. After having selected the packages to install and confirmed everything and having inserted the request CD I get many messages telling me that I've inserted the wrong CD. Actually, there should be a dialog

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 29-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > >> Description: dpkg -s pacakge >> List all files:dpkg -L pacakge >> list all packages: dpkg -l > > So, does that mean apt-get's cache is shared with dpkg then? I > thought

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Remco van 't Veer
o whether there is a way to do this with apt-get. What I ended up > doing was guessing as to a package name, and doing 'apt-get -s install > foo' to see if it existed. Is there a better way? Or do you > generally use something like gnome-apt or dselect to do this? > > Also

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Description: dpkg -s pacakge > List all files:dpkg -L pacakge > list all packages: dpkg -l So, does that mean apt-get's cache is shared with dpkg then? I thought they were separate, due to the apt-cache program. I'm a

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Preben Randhol
to do this with apt-get. What I ended up > doing was guessing as to a package name, and doing 'apt-get -s install > foo' to see if it existed. Is there a better way? Or do you > generally use something like gnome-apt or dselect to do this? > > Also, is there a way to fin

apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Willy Lee
27;apt-get -s install foo' to see if it existed. Is there a better way? Or do you generally use something like gnome-apt or dselect to do this? Also, is there a way to find out what packages depend/suggest/recommend with apt-get? Or a description of a package? I guess what I'm getting a

Re: Can't install gnome-apt? Also zipping .deb file on Win98

1999-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:41:09PM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote: > > Also. I download a 12.1MB or so .deb file yesterday my window 98 box. My > intention was to download and zip it up using WinZip 7.0 so that it would > fit on a floppy and I can transfer that file to my Linox box, but WinZip > would N

Can't install gnome-apt? Also zipping .deb file on Win98

1999-12-08 Thread Tam Than Ma
Hi, I install Gnome 1.x yesterday and every everything went alright except for gnome-apt. Dpkg told me that I need the "libapt-pkg2.6" package (which isn't installed on my system), but I could NOT find this "libapt-pkg2.6" package anywhere, keep in mind that I have a Slin

gnome apt?

1999-10-21 Thread Aaron Solochek
Where is libapt-pkg2.5? I can't find it anywhere. I've tried different mirrors too. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-apt depends on libapt-pkg2.5 libapt-pkg2.5 does not appear to be available

I can't find GNOME APT source!

1999-10-14 Thread Richard Deighton
Why is it so hard to find the GNOME APT source? It would be great to have an up-to-date list of APT sources on www.debian.org! Anyway where can I find the GNOME APT source and is it the October release? Regards. Richard

latest version of gnome-apt

1999-10-03 Thread Oz Dror
The latest version of gnome-apt is not compatible with the rest of the potato libraries. Is there a newer ? > 0.3.4 thanks Oz Dror -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<&

Re: Can't install gnome-apt and console-apt

1999-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
The latest console-apt has changed the dependency to libapt-pkg2.6. This isn't there either, but is provided by apt 0.3.12, so it will unstall. Unfortunately gnome-apt in potato still has the dependency for libapt-pkg2.5. You should probably file a bug report on this against gnome-apt. Bo

Can't install gnome-apt and console-apt

1999-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Here's the screen dump: marvin:~# apt-get install gnome-apt console-apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that

gnome-apt 0.3.4 not working

1999-09-05 Thread Oz Dror
When I try to update package list I get the following error is this a bug? Update failed. The following errors may help: Couldn't stat source package list 'file:/pub/debian/dists/ potato/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/pub_debian_dists_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No suc

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change > > in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper > > ci

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change > in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper > circumstances. Was there? Hmm.. > It seems there's some new library f

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been > having > just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the > ?.deb?s, and > then just beeps and goes back to the i

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-09 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> > Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly > > but nothing works with gnome-apt :( > To be honest I have no clue at all. I haven't rebuilt from scratch with > the latest libapt-pkg in a while, so I'll try that today and if I have

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly > but nothing works with gnome-apt :( > > It only shows the progress-window for about half a second but > does nothing. > > I use potato and run an upd

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Bernhard Rieder
I tried "apt-get install bb" and then "apt-get remove bb". It worked. Then I tried the same thing with gnome-apt. For install gnome-apt wrote: Start Done file:/home/public/debian/ unstable/main bb 1.2-6 Stop but actually It didn't install anything. I installed bb with &

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Where do I get a working version gnome-apt ? > Since about one month when selecting "Complete run" apt prints > > Start > Stop > > to the console but does not do anything. It shows the progress > window for about h

gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Where do I get a working version gnome-apt ? Since about one month when selecting "Complete run" apt prints Start Stop to the console but does not do anything. It shows the progress window for about half a second so I can read nothing. Bernh

Re: gnome-apt for slink?

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 02:05:49PM -0700, Cliff W. Draper wrote: > Does anyone have a .deb for gnome-apt that runs in slink (ie, glibc2.0)? > > thanks, > -Cliff > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Get the source for a later version of APT and build it yourself. (dpkg-source -x ; cd apt-0.

gnome-apt for slink?

1999-07-25 Thread Cliff W. Draper
Does anyone have a .deb for gnome-apt that runs in slink (ie, glibc2.0)? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-30 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:25:05PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user? Yes, there is sudo. or, I think, you can (in a Xterm ) su export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority gnome-apt It should work but I've not tried.

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Leen Besselink wrote: > > Maybe it's a reason to change it's behavour, > maybe we could have it ask for a password and do sudo in the background or > something, when installing. > yeah, it will be fixed eventually. We might need to wait for Debian to have PAM. Patches gladl

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Leen Besselink
o it won't apply to you while you're > root. You could set the theme for the root user though. > > > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? > > > > No, installing packages requires root permissions. gnome-apt might let you > do pac

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
user though. > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? > No, installing packages requires root permissions. gnome-apt might let you do package selections as a regular user eventually, but you'll always have to be root to actually install. Havoc

Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user? To run it as root I have to mess about with X authorization and even once that is done my GTK themes aren't respected. I guess my question can be broken down as follows (and an answer to either part would be enough)

Dpkg / Apt / gnome-apt

1999-03-29 Thread Sami Dalouche
What do the kept and the held flag mean ? What's going to arrive if I do # dpkg --purge -a ? -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.34.83.16.76 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ : 25529539 |

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-13 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/13/99 2:31:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect > > because of the huge number of packages you must look at. > > You can mix and match dselect and dpkg. > The reason you can do th

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
MacKenzie, Andrew: > My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install > packages using dpkg -i . ... > Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect > because of the huge number of packages you must look at. You can mix and match dselect and dpkg. So you

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
in the distribution. Maybe I'm just lazy, or because I don't find dselect's interface to be *that* bad, but I prefer dselect with apt as the access method, over dpkg's command line. Then again, different strokes for different folks. > Also, gnome-apt, do I need gnome to run this? I have KDE 1.1 and like it. > > Andrew MacKenzie > -- Ed C.

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-12 Thread Roberto Meyer
Hi, I´m new on the list and with Debian, please forgive my english from now on :-) "David Z. Maze" wrote: [snip] > dselect should give you the same list of packages you can find on the > FTP site. IMHO it's marginally easier to use than FTP'ing packages by > hand; YMMV. I'm having trouble to

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 16:02 (-0500), MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: > My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install packages > using dpkg -i . I find the .deb packages on the ftp site or > other sites, download them then install. If there are dependencies, I go > looking for the

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-11 Thread David Z. Maze
rginally easier to use than FTP'ing packages by hand; YMMV. AM> I tried apt but it told me some of my packages were configured AM> wrong and would not go on. How would I change this? 'dpkg --configure --pending', perhaps? 'apt-get -f install', if it complains about

dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-11 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
. I tried apt but it told me some of my packages were configured wrong and would not go on. How would I change this? Also, gnome-apt, do I need gnome to run this? I have KDE 1.1 and like it. Andrew MacKenzie

Re: gnome-apt

1999-02-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Andreas, I installed Gnome-APT and looks good. But I have to install apt-0.3.0 and it hasnt ftp method. :( I think that the apt main programmer is Jason. Jason, are you already knowing this bug? Reggards, Paulo Henrique Quoting Andreas Sliwka

gnome-apt

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Sliwka
Hi, anybody any experiences with gnome-apt ? I've got a mixed hamm/slink and like to get rid off dselect ... mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062