Hi,
> where is local/binary ??
I _think_ is a local filesystem or directory where you put your
any extra package which is not present under the stable|contrib|non-free
tree. For example you can put ther
a) Your own packages like a custom kernel created out of the kernel-source
and made (autoamtically) kernel-image-custom.deb
b) the ftp'ed partial tree if you don't have the CD
Anybody knows of other use for it?
>I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either
>dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of "Package is in an
>unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove"
> ......I can't install the pac kage, can't re-install the package,
> and dselect/dpgk won't remove it!
^^^^^
It happened to me too with dselect when I run out of space in /usr
(The size of the packages being selected and the free space on the
filesystem would have helped... Ian, Bruce are you listening?).
In my case, only the front-end "dselect" could not install or remove
those "unstable" packages. This however worked for me:
1) Quit dselect
2) Install the "unstable" packages with "dpkg -i" giving the full path
something like:
# dpkg -i /cdrom/stable/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.6-0.deb
That will install the package and update the files dselect needs to
configure/remove/purge or whatever you want to do next with the
package within dselect.
>As I do not clearly understand the package system yet, I'm afraid to
>simply delete the packages and mess up dpkg's database.
Don't worry, you're not alone :-). Just read the documentation you find
_many_ times untill you get the feeling. "dpkg --help | less" and all the
manual pages mentioned in the "fake" dpkg manpage (man -k dpkg can help
too). But be patient... the Debian packaging system is a several years
project so _it is_ a complicated and _excelent_ system!
look also at the /var/lib/dpkg/info to learn "by example" what comes with
every package. In my case, the package_name.list file for the "unstable"
packages in that directory was missing ...and that confused dselect.
Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date: 07.08.96 10:26
I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not with the
dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet)
The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I made a
few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install, but managed to get
most of the selected packages unpacked & installed. Where dselect
hung was on the kernel-source/kernel-headers packages. (where is
local/binary ??)
I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either
dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of "Package is in an
unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove"
As I do not clearly understand the package system yet, I'm afraid to
simply delete the packages and mess up dpkg's database. I can't
install the package, can't re-install the package, and dselect/dpgk
won't remove it!
Coming from the SlackWare Distribution, I learned how to compile &
install programs using make, so there was no problem using the code
to create a kernel & boot floppy, which I now use to bring up the
system. There are some problems with this too, but that will wait
for another time.
Can anyone help?
