*- On 14 Nov, J Horacio MG wrote about "Re: apt-get, now what?" > El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 09:23:05 -0500, Kevin Heath dijo: >> >> > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the >> > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave >> > me the following: >> >[...] >> > upgraded. >> > Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they >> > have unmet dependencies: >> > giflib-bin: Depends:giflib3g Depends:giflib3g >> >> Try "apt-get update; apt-get --fix-broken upgrade". > > El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 07:34:29 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe dijo: >> >> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/libncurses4_4.2-3.4.deb >> > Incorrect MD5Sum >> > ERROR >> >> Sounds like you are behind a massively defective proxy server. I suggest >> erasing everything in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial and switching to >> ftp. > > Well, since I already have all the packages I wanted to upgrade, I > removed the ones in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ and copied the ones > missing to /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > Next, I tried to run dselect with mounted fs installation, but that > doesn't help as it requires Packages.gz from each directory, plus (or so > I believe) a copy (or partial copy) of the directories (main, contrib, > non-free...) ... probably meaning that I would have to create those > directories in /var/cache/apt/archives/ and I'm frightened to mess with > the dpkg database. > > Then, I ran `apt-get install <packages>', hoping that it would be able > to realize that the requested packages are in /var/cache/apt/archives/, > but it started downloading again, so I exited apt-get. > > Since I already have all the packages, how can I best use apt-get or > dselect to install them all? > > I find dpkg is a nice flexible tool, but I would have to go through > `dpkg -i <package>' one by one (and for upgrading things such as libc6 > it's a real pain due to interdependencies). > >
If you know all packages you want, and the depenencies, are downloaded then you can just use dpkg to install them all at once. cd /var/cache/apt/archives dpkg -i *.deb #iterate this a few times, maybe# dpkg --configure --pending apt-get clean But obviously this is just a kludge to get around some other problem that is occuring. Unfortunately I don't know the solution to the problem, =). -- Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
