on Sun, 06 Jan 2002 03:27:32PM +0100, marTin insinuated: > apt-get in potato can't handle multiple distributions.
that would explain it. > first of all, you'd need entries for potato and sid in > /etc/apt/sources.list (which i don't think you have since *i* didn't > put them there), right, well, i do now, since *i* did. :-P gotta learn somehow, yo. > and second, spamassassin is also in testing and you should really > prefer that IMHO unless you want to keep yourself busy with > bugreports (this is not to say that spamassassin is particularly > bad, it's just a general statement about unstable...). sure, i'd confused the two (testing & unstable). yes, i'd prefer the one off woody. > so if you really want to install it, yes, i do; that's why i wrote to the list. > then comment your potato/stable entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and > provide similar ones for woody/testing, do the apt-get install, and > then revert to stable in sources.list. seems like it should work. so i replace the lines, apt-get update, and then it tries instead to delete half my packages: orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cdrdao cpp cpp-2.95 debconf dialog dpkg esound esound-common file-rc g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 hermes1 libart2 libbonobo2 libc6 libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libesd0 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk1.2-common libmail-audit-perl libmailtools-perl libncurses5 libpopt0 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 locales mailtools perl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-base perl-modules sysvinit whiptail xfree86-common xserver-common The following packages will be REMOVED: alsaplayer gfontview gftp gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree gnome-bin gnome-print gnucash gnumeric libgimp1.1.17 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-dev libgtkmm libgtkxmhtml1 wmakerconf xchat xcontrib xmms xscreensaver The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 hermes1 libbonobo2 libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgtk1.2-common libmail-audit-perl libmailtools-perl libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 perl perl-modules spamassassin 32 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 25 to remove and 371 not upgraded. Need to get 20.6MB of archives. After unpacking 41.6MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. do i really need to install cdrdao (which i already have) and all the above packages to do this? the only dependencies should be perl (>= 5.6.0-16) perl-modules libmail-audit-perl libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-1) libgdbmg1 dpkg (>= 1.8.1) and why should it try to REMOVE gmp, gnucash, wmakerconf, xmms, xscreensaver, and all those?? not wanting to trash all those and have to re-install them, i hit 'no'. next method: > alternatively you could have deb-src lines from testing and apt-get > source spamassassin and then dpkg-buildpackage the thing. my deb-src lines already are from testing, for some reason. hm. well, ignoring the fact that i have no idea how to dpkg-buildpackage the thing once i get it (and i have been rtfming, to no avail), apt-get sourcing does the following: orange:~# apt-get source spamassassin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-f Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_non-f_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://debian.madduck.net testing/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://debian.madduck.net testing/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_debian-non-US_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://people.debian.org woody/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebunk_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_non-f_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) my sources.list has the following in it: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-f deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://debian.madduck.net/debian testing main deb http://debian.madduck.net/debian-non-US testing main deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian woody main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-f deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian woody main deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian testing main i should be able to get spamassassin and the dependencies without having to upgrade to woody, right? i might just bite the bullet and upgrade kernels ... if i could figure out how to do *that*. been searching archives and looking for howtos, and maybe i just suck at locating the fm to r, but i'm clueless here, on both counts ... tia, and sorry for all these questions, which i'm sure have been answered at least a billion times before, but the answeres to which i just can't find, </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
