Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Greenhoe
> How do you down-grade a package? I get burned a lot by ximian and was > thinking that it would be really useful to have a list of what packages > I was running before upgrading so that I could revert to that state if > there packages were broken, again ;( ***

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:28:16AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > > Thanks, it was done. > > You're welcome. > > > How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install? > > Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: > > // Things that e

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:20:42PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: Feh. That should be /etc/apt/apt.conf -Ian

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:28:16AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Thanks, it was done. You're welcome. > How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install? Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: // Things that effect the APT dselect method DSelect {

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? > > raj > Just create the following and you are set: [01:00:32 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives -ld drwxr-

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
"Rajkumar S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the >/var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get >:) > >How can I bring this back? Removing /var/cache/apt/archives should be harmless; can't you just update and continue

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > chmod 755 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > > touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock > chmod 640 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock Thanks, it was done. How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after insta

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the RS> /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get RS> :) Why? AFAIK that's pretty much what 'apt-get clean' does too. How do you think APT is broken now? RS> How can

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:13:45AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? Just do (as root, of course): mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/p

rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Rajkumar S.
Hi all, Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get :) How can I bring this back? raj