Re: Help fixing package dependencies

2023-10-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:39 AM Rishikesh Kakade <1rishikaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to upgrade my system from Debian 11 to Debian 12. When I run > sudo apt full-upgrade, > > λ ~/ main* sudo apt full-upgrade > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done >

Re: Help fixing package dependencies during Debian 11 -> 12 upgrade

2023-10-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 11 Oct 2023 11:08 +0530, from 1rishikaka...@gmail.com (Rishikesh Kakade): > I am trying to upgrade my system from Debian 11 to Debian 12. Okay. First things first: did you read through and follow the upgrade preparation portions of the Bookworm release notes? Going straight for `apt full-upgra

Re: Help fixing package dependencies

2023-10-10 Thread David
On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 11:08 +0530, Rishikesh Kakade wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to upgrade my system from Debian 11 to Debian 12. When I > run > sudo apt full-upgrade, Well, to start with what appears to be the obvious, did you begin with `apt-get update' first? The, `apt-get full-upgrade'. It'

Help fixing package dependencies

2023-10-10 Thread Rishikesh Kakade
Hi! I am trying to upgrade my system from Debian 11 to Debian 12. When I run sudo apt full-upgrade, λ ~/ main* sudo apt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Error! Some packages could not be installed.

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/10/2023 01:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: In the current case, "aptitude search '~Plsb-base'" does the trick. Why on EARTH was this not ported to apt-patterns(7)? It is one of two features I miss in "apt list". Another one is --sh

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 10:47:58AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 07/10/2023 20:45: > > unicorn:~$ apt list '?provides(~nlsb-base)' > > Listing... Error! > > E: input:0-21: error: Unrecognized pattern '?provides' > > ?provides(~nlsb-base) > > ^

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 07/10/2023 20:45: On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Yes, aptitude can do that. Quoting the manual[1]: , | ?provides(pattern), ~Ppattern | | Matches package versions which provide a package that matches the | pattern. For instance,

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Yes, aptitude can do that. Quoting the manual[1]: > > , > | ?provides(pattern), ~Ppattern > | > | Matches package versions which provide a package that matches the > | pattern. For instance, “?provides(mail-transport-ag

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-10-07 19:24 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> Package: sysvinit-utils >> [...] >> Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) >> >> When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package >> provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of >> ntpsec, r

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > Package: sysvinit-utils > > [...] > > Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) > > > > When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package > > provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the depende

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
Greg Wooledge writes: > Package: sysvinit-utils > [...] > Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) > > When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package > provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of > ntpsec, rsync, etc. OK, that explains, why lsb-base can be removed

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 01:04:56PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 7 Oct 2023 13:47 +0200, from keller.st...@gmx.de (Steve Keller): > > # aptitude purge lsb-base > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > lsb-base{p} > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 7 Oct 2023 13:47 +0200, from keller.st...@gmx.de (Steve Keller): > But how can this then be explained? > > # aptitude why lsb-base > i ntpsec Depends lsb-base > # aptitude show ntpsec | grep ^Depends > Depends: adduser, lsb-base, netbase, python3, python3-ntp (= > 1.2.2+dfsg1

Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-07 Thread Steve Keller
I've always thought, that a package's dependencies must be full-filled to install that package and that apt-get automatically manages these dependencies. And also, that if I remove a package, that all other packages are removed, that depend on it. Like this: # aptitude purge bind9-libs T

Re: What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (proliant package dependencies)

2021-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-10-27 at 06:57, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, > and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the > last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. > > I have both libc6:i386 and lib32

What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (proliant package dependencies)

2021-10-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine). libc6-i686:i386 is tagged

Package dependencies

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:38:13AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Those concepts are fine for concrete packages. My MUD client Gypsum, > if I were to package it as a .deb, would Depend on Pike and GTK, would > Recommend the latest Pike (if it's possible to depend on one version > and recommend ano

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Sven Joachim [2009-12-30 09:59]: > > What do you mean by "insist"? If they recommend the doc package, you > can easily overrule that. If they depend on it, that is a bug and you > should report it. > texlive-base depends on texlive-doc-base -- I'm gonna report it. Thanks. wbr, Lukas -- Luk

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Andrei Popescu [2009-12-30 10:06]: > > On Wed,30.Dec.09, 09:37:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all > > > > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > > modifying the package source? &g

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,30.Dec.09, 09:37:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all > > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > modifying the package source? > > Reason for asking: I do not need to have doc packages installed on all > of my servers. But some pack

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-30 09:37 +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > modifying the package source? Not really. While rebuilding from source is not strictly necessary, at least you'll have to modify the binary package(s). > Reason

Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without modifying the package source? Reason for asking: I do not need to have doc packages installed on all of my servers. But some packages simply insist on installing their doc package too. In /etc/apt/preferences, I

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ink Bottle-- > > > I've found this little script around something > I've heared about recently; it's a command dedicated > to check dependencies. > I don't know it it can be of some use. > It's been hard to make it work (that's the bad part :)

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
OT AVAILABLE} It is supposed to be fast at it (and probably other good properties). $ apt-cache show $(dpkg-query -l "*"|grep "ii"|cut -d' ' -f3) $(dpkg-query -l "tetex-bin"|cut -d' ' -f3) The already installed packages, plus, the packages I wan

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > [...] > >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the > >> action: > >> > >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb > >> > >> Does that make it beha

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
Paul Yeatman writes: > > $ sudo dpkg -i --no-act texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb (Reading > > database ... 138033 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007.dfsg.1-2 (using > > texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... > > $ echo $? > > 0 > > > > tel

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: [...] >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the >> action: >> >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb >> >> Does that make it behave as expected? > > I wish but sadly no: > > $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.d

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Michael M. Moore-- > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian > > package that would test for whether all dependencies of that package > > are already installed on

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > > installed on the system without actually insta

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jimmy Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package > that would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > installed on the system without actually installing th

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-15 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed > on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing > list t

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed > on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing > list thread http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing list thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-us

test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing list thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/09/msg00292.htm

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:27 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > >> The version of wine I'm trying to install is 1.0.0. >> Debian version is testing. > > Aah, that's probably your problem. 1.0.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in > testing

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:27 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > The version of wine I'm trying to install is 1.0.0. > Debian version is testing. Aah, that's probably your problem. 1.0.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in testing. Unstable does not play well with others: Don't try to pull unstable sources

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Keith Bates
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:45:17 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-23 07:37 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > > > apt-cache policy wine > > > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 > > Version table: > > 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 0 > > 500 h

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-23 07:37 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > apt-cache policy wine > > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 > Version table: > 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 0 > 500 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com etch/main Packages > 1.0-rc2-1 0 > 500 http://ftp.

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Keith Bates
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:48:36 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-23 06:27 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > > > Thanks Mike. I installed libwine-ldap fine. Then tried to install > > wine: > > > > yariknow:/home/mrkeef# apt-get install wine > > Reading package lists... Done > > Bu

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-23 06:27 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > Thanks Mike. I installed libwine-ldap fine. Then tried to install wine: > > yariknow:/home/mrkeef# apt-get install wine > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Keith Bates
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:27:19 +1000 Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:07:29 -0700 > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > > > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > > > > > Wine depends on lib

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Keith Bates
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:07:29 -0700 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > > > Wine depends on libldap2 > > libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 > > libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > Wine depends on libldap2 > libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 > libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100 other programs including cups, > evolution, samba, grip... > > Obviously I've missed

Wine package dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Keith Bates
Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? Wine depends on libldap2 libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100 other programs including cups, evolution, samba, grip... Obviously I've missed something basic here! Can somebody please enlighten me? Than

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 23:32:12 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to > > > etch. [...] > > > The following packages have unmet depend

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-04 Thread Dimitrios Daskalakis
Hello Florian. Thx for your reply. See underneath my answers to your questions. --- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios > Daskalakis wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge > to > > etch. > > Are you following

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to > etch. Are you following the upgrade procedure that is outlined in Etch's release notes? > Having upgraded successfully the 2.4 kernel to 2.6, I > update my sources.li

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:41:11PM +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to > etch. > > Having upgraded successfully the 2.4 kernel to 2.6, I > update my sources.list (change sarge to stable, so I > get etch) and I run aptitude upgrade. Then .

dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-03 Thread Dimitrios Daskalakis
Hi, I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to etch. Having upgraded successfully the 2.4 kernel to 2.6, I update my sources.list (change sarge to stable, so I get etch) and I run aptitude upgrade. Then ... aptitude dist-upgrade which unfortunately gives me these errors: Reading Pac

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:14 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd

RE: package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Heal
rg > Subject: Re: package dependencies > > Tony Heal wrote: > > > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm a

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 16:46:34 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. > Apt-get -f install shows no pa

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Tony Heal wrote: I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. Apt-get –f install shows no packages in error. How can this be? Tony Pa

package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Heal
I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. Apt-get -f install shows no packages in error. How can this be? Tony Package: webali

Re: installing package dependencies automatically

2006-12-14 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:11:13AM -0500, mutsuura wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm brand new to Debian. I have some experience with package installtion > on SOLARIS systems. > > On SOLARIS when I install a package w/ dependencies, the package installer > auto-magically detects this and prompts me i

Re: installing package dependencies automatically

2006-12-14 Thread John Hasler
Attila writes: > On SOLARIS when I install a package w/ dependencies, the package > installer auto-magically detects this and prompts me if I want to install > them as well. Automatic handling of dependencies is a key feature of Debian. All of the Apt front-ends (Apt-get, Synaptic, Aptitude) deal

installing package dependencies automatically

2006-12-14 Thread mutsuura
Hello all. I'm brand new to Debian. I have some experience with package installtion on SOLARIS systems. On SOLARIS when I install a package w/ dependencies, the package installer auto-magically detects this and prompts me if I want to install them as well. Is there a similar capability in

broken package dependencies

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Weil
I seem to have really broken a couple of packages and I now I can't do anything with dselect/aptitude. None of the dpkg commands, even using --force, is helping me fix the problem packages. So, I'm looking for some help on how to perform surgery on the package database. I compiled the 2.4.23 kerne

Re: Listing Package dependencies

2003-05-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Josh Guffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, is there a way to list only the packages with no dependencies? > Or, some other useful way to find packages that got installed because > of other packages that aren't there anymore? If you install packages with aptitude, it will keep track of this f

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lukas Ruf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030217 23:16]: > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for > this question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- > and do not want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like > cxref have the ide

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-19 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > > > This morning (CET) I run an update and performed an upgrade by -> > > > dselect with sid. Ther, emacs was required. -> > > -> > > Don't worry your not going insane, the version of cxref you were trying to -> > > install depends on emacsen-common. -> > > -> > -> > well, why does cxref d

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 14:03]: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > thanks. "bug" submitted. Cool (although actually you sent a followup to an existing bug). Try to avoid doing "Subject: Depends: libc6

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 14:03]: > > > - "filing a bug" -- how? bugreport > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > thanks. "bug" submitted. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw ip? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] on http://www.rawip.org

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:04:30PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 13:00]: > > Oh, I seem to be one version behind. See #180876. You might want to > > consider filing a bug; if all else fails the .el stuff may have to be > > split into a separate package. It

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 13:00]: > > Oh, I seem to be one version behind. See #180876. You might want to > consider filing a bug; if all else fails the .el stuff may have to be > split into a separate package. It would be nice if it could use emacs > only if it's already inst

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 11:57]: > > Now, actually the changelog is not all that verbose here, but the gist > > of it appears to be that cxref contains .el files which need the > > framework in emacsen-common to be i

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
Colin, * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 11:57]: > > Now, actually the changelog is not all that verbose here, but the gist > of it appears to be that cxref contains .el files which need the > framework in emacsen-common to be installed correctly. emacsen-common > consumes a whole 78

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:38:29AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 09:30]: > > Don't worry your not going insane, the version of cxref you were trying to > > install depends on emacsen-common. > > well, why does cxref depend on emacsen-common? Is there an

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi again, * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030218 17:52]: > Hello Nick, > > * Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 09:30]: > > > > > > > > This morning (CET) I run an update and performed an upgrade by > > > dselect with sid. Ther, emacs was required. > > > > Don't worry your not goi

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hello Nick, * Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 09:30]: > > > > > This morning (CET) I run an update and performed an upgrade by > > dselect with sid. Ther, emacs was required. > > Don't worry your not going insane, the version of cxref you were trying to > install depends on emacs

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030218 16:52]: > > * nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 08:31]: > > Lukas Ruf said: > > > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > > > question: I have been using VIM ever since

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-17 Thread Lukas Ruf
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 08:31]: > Lukas Ruf said: > > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > > question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not > > want to have emacs installed at all. Howev

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-17 Thread nate
Lukas Ruf said: > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not > want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have the > idea they would depend on emacs -- but

Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-17 Thread Lukas Ruf
Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have the idea they would depend on emacs -- but cxref, as an example, can be used

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:22:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > > apt-get remove each package? > > Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-15 Thread csj
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:38:34 +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install > >all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the > >package kde. > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one f

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > apt-get remove each package? Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and then clean up with deborphan -Pa Also, kinda wondering why the default

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:08:03PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? > > > > Remove the basic libraries and watch the d

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? > > Remove the basic libraries and watch the dependencies sort it out? Is there a case for introducing that kind o

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:10 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase Thanks Mike! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde > >with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one f

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/02/03 Jeff Elkins did speaketh: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > apt-get remove each package? If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase somethin

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Jeff Elkins writes: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have > to apt-get remove each package? Unfortunately, yes (though the dependency list in the KDE package will tell you what to remove). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwoo

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde >with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? Jef

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:07:51 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so > > I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, > > everyt

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2003-02-14 às 12:42, Wim De Smet escreveu: > hi, > > recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so > I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, > everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even > kde-base-doc. kde

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so > I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, > everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even > kde-base-doc. kde

kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Wim De Smet
hi, recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is dependent on all of them. Is this a bug? I can't believe tha

Re: apt package dependencies

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0100, willem wrote: > Hi, > > I went thru the man pages but couldn't find what i was looking for. > I run testing and unstable, with testing pinned as prime. > Now i want to get something from unstable, licq, so checked > the dependencies and it's quite a list.

Re: apt package dependencies

2003-01-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0100, willem wrote: > I went thru the man pages but couldn't find what i was looking for. I > run testing and unstable, with testing pinned as prime. Now i want to > get something from unstable, licq, so checked the dependencies and > it's quite a list. But t

apt package dependencies

2003-01-07 Thread willem
Hi, I went thru the man pages but couldn't find what i was looking for. I run testing and unstable, with testing pinned as prime. Now i want to get something from unstable, licq, so checked the dependencies and it's quite a list. But the dependencies do not show to which release they belong... eit

Problems with package dependencies.

2002-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Clement
Good Morning All, I've got Debian 3.0 / unstable installed on my laptop and I'm having some difficulties with installing a package I need. I use Python 2.2 for a lot of small app development and a GUI toolkit for Python called wxPython (which requires Python 2.2). Python 2.1 was installed by

Re: strange package dependencies

2000-09-14 Thread Christoph Groth
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? > > Sure, xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa > > 0.2.17-7' which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the > > point in replacing `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `

Re: strange package dependencies

2000-09-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christoph Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? Sure, > xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' > which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the point in replacing > `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `libesd0 0

RE: strange package dependencies

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? Sure, > xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' > which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the point in replacing > `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `libesd0 0.2.17-7'? > the problem lies in the fact

strange package dependencies

2000-09-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Hi, My Linux box is running an up-to-date potato and everything seems to work just fine, however there is one thing I don't understand: My little brother wants some jump'n'run game so I would like to install xtux. `apt-get -s install xtux' says: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

Re: can somebody please give me some info regarding package dependencies.

2000-01-12 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:57:17AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: > > Each shared library has a "soname", which consists of a name and a > version number. For example, "libc6" is the soname for the current > version of the libc standard C library. Sonames are used to > distinguish between incompat

Re: can somebody please give me some info regarding package dependencies.

2000-01-12 Thread Buddha Buck
sponsibility of the package maintainer to make sure the library dependencies are properly reflected in the package dependencies. This way, installing the right packages so all package dependencies are taken care of automatically ensures that the library dependenceis are

can somebody please give me some info regarding package dependencies.

2000-01-12 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Greetings! I would like to know if an older version of a required library can be used with those programs that require certain libraries to work without any problems. i.e. I am currently using debian slink 2.1 with the icewm window manager and I want to install sawmill but then sawmill require

apt-cache and package dependencies

1999-12-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I read a thread a little earlier where the postor (is it postER or postOR?) wants to download all the required files to install X. He wanted to know what files to download. That prompted me to search for an answer. I poked around, and the closest thing I could find that would give the dep

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