Thanks to all for your help. Dan's suggestion (below) worked.
Larry
-Original Message-
From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:04 AM
To: larry owens
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall
On Thu, S
Cindy-Sue Causey writes:
> I was wondering about that. I a-sumed maybe it tried to over-purge
> other important packages the way that happens sometimes.
There is no risk: only explicitly named packages are purged. The rest
are deleted on demand.
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Alberto
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 08:36:33AM -0700, larry owens wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> I've been a loyal Debian user since (I believe) release 4. I also use
> Debian as the basis for a college course I teach in C programming so the
> students get 'nix exposure in addition to C. As is my custom I typicall
On 9/14/17, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> "larry owens" writes:
>
>> Colleagues
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> Unfortunately I
>> have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove
>> Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web
>> currently don't seem to work). TIA
>
> Hi, as l
"larry owens" writes:
> Colleagues
>
[...]
> Unfortunately I
> have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove
> Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web
> currently don't seem to work). TIA
Hi, as long as you installed it from Debian packages, you o
Colleagues
I've been a loyal Debian user since (I believe) release 4. I also use
Debian as the basis for a college course I teach in C programming so the
students get 'nix exposure in addition to C. As is my custom I typically
wait a few months after a new release and then convert to the new Deb
Forgive the newbie question, but is there an easy way
to remove X in its entirety and reinstall it? I've
installed woody and everything but X is working like a
champ.
Thanks,
John
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On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Corey Edwards wrote:
> Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just
> installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i
> package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the
> dependencies correctly, so if you want to download t
Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just
installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i
package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the
dependencies correctly, so if you want to download the
actual deb file, you could do that.
Corey Edwards
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Hi folks,
just some practical question.
Does there exist a simple mechanism to reinstall a package, that might be
broken by some error? If i use dselect, all dependencies are also checked
and lots of packages might be removed.
would
dpkg -r --force-depends XXX ; apt-get install XXX
do what i
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