On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 19:53, Brian wrote:
> Indeed; especially if you are coming from apt-get. But, if you think
> about it, do users want to keep all the debs they have downloaded?
I agree: removing the .deb files makes sense for most use cases.
> I'm moved to suggest that apt rather than a
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 16:26:48 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 16:07, Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >> But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache
> >> and apt-get recently so I'm not up to speed on t
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 16:07, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache
>> and apt-get recently so I'm not up to speed on the differences.
>
> /usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz.
Thanks. Co
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 15:25, Brian wrote:
>
> > Note that, by default, apt deletes files in archives after downloading
> > and installing them.
>
> But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache
> and apt-ge
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 15:25, Brian wrote:
[...]
> Which is why the adice to delete only pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin
> was given :).
Yes but I had done 'apt-get clean' by then unfortunately!
> As a matter of interest, how do the sizes of those files
> compare with what you had previous
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 14:57:56 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 11:02, john doe wrote:
> > Actually, your subject line was explicit enough! :)
>
> Indeed! ;-)
>
> > It looks like in your case your package index files were some how corrupted.
> > That's why cleaning and upd
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 11:02, john doe wrote:
> Actually, your subject line was explicit enough! :)
Indeed! ;-)
> It looks like in your case your package index files were some how corrupted.
> That's why cleaning and updating did the trick! :)
> As recommended by the below URL 'apt-get update
On 12/29/2017 3:02 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Friday, 29 Dec 2017 at 06:30, john doe wrote:
[...]
I had rongly assumed that you were trying to install buster packages
into stretch, so '-t buster' is clearly not needed.
Sorry, should have made myself more clear. Yes, I'm already at buster.
On Friday, 29 Dec 2017 at 11:54, Brian wrote:
> What is the error message? Does 'apt search ' find anything? How
> about 'apt show ufraw'?
Neither of those found anything. However, based on a suggestion from
somebody else, doing 'apt-get clean' sorted things out.
Thanks for your help,
eric
On Friday, 29 Dec 2017 at 06:30, john doe wrote:
[...]
> I had rongly assumed that you were trying to install buster packages
> into stretch, so '-t buster' is clearly not needed.
Sorry, should have made myself more clear. Yes, I'm already at buster.
> Have you already tried?:
>
> $ apt-get cl
On Thu 28 Dec 2017 at 18:44:46 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 Dec 2017 at 08:34, Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 'apt search' (and 'apt-cache search') gets its information from what is
> > in lists. Try searching through all files there with
> >
> > grep "^Package:.*ufraw" *
>
> Well
On 12/28/2017 7:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Thursday, 28 Dec 2017 at 07:47, john doe wrote:
[...]
In '/etc/apt/sources.list':
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
That's essentially what I h
On Thursday, 28 Dec 2017 at 07:47, john doe wrote:
[...]
> In '/etc/apt/sources.list':
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
That's essentially what I have already:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.o
On Thursday, 28 Dec 2017 at 08:34, Brian wrote:
[...]
> 'apt search' (and 'apt-cache search') gets its information from what is
> in lists. Try searching through all files there with
>
> grep "^Package:.*ufraw" *
Well, interesting. ufraw is listed in
ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_main_binary-
On Wed 27 Dec 2017 at 21:36:52 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 Dec 2017 at 18:18, Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Post the outputs of
> >
> > ls -l /var/cache/apt/
> > ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
> >
>
> /var/cache/apt $ ls -l
> total 4151
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 6799
On 12/27/2017 10:08 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 Dec 2017 at 18:02, john doe wrote:
[...]
You can try:
'apt search -t buster ufraw"'
Thanks but this gives me:
$ apt search -t buster ufraw
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
In '/etc/apt/sources.list':
deb http://ftp.de.
On Wednesday, 27 Dec 2017 at 18:18, Brian wrote:
[...]
> Post the outputs of
>
> ls -l /var/cache/apt/
> ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
>
/var/cache/apt $ ls -l
total 4151
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 679936 2017-12-27 10:16 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3019781 2017-12-2
On Wednesday, 27 Dec 2017 at 18:02, john doe wrote:
[...]
> You can try:
> 'apt search -t buster ufraw" '
Thanks but this gives me:
$ apt search -t buster ufraw
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
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On Wed 27 Dec 2017 at 14:29:02 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "apt search ufraw" finds nothing but if I search on the debian website,
> I find
>
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/ufraw
>
> My question is simply: why does apt not find ufraw where my sources.list
> file includes t
On 12/27/2017 3:29 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
Hello,
"apt search ufraw" finds nothing but if I search on the debian website,
I find
https://packages.debian.org/buster/ufraw
My question is simply: why does apt not find ufraw where my sources.list
file includes the following line:
deb ht
Hello,
"apt search ufraw" finds nothing but if I search on the debian website,
I find
https://packages.debian.org/buster/ufraw
My question is simply: why does apt not find ufraw where my sources.list
file includes the following line:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster main non
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