Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

Try redirecting the output to a file then you can blook at the output dpkg --purge packagename >dpkg.file 2>&1 & packagename is the package name of your package to remove Barry On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, michaw wrote: > Hello List ! > Usually apt/itude works without problems here. But this time seems

Re: apt-get

You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: > > I understand the apt-get , the thing is

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2 partitions from the primary and linux can read 4 On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mass

Re: apt-get problem

I would do the following. remove the package kdelibs-bin from /var/lib/dpkg/status making sure that I have a copy of the original file. then make the same query to apt-get and see if it overwrites the files causing the problem. remember that you may have the same problem if you try to reinstall kde

Re: Is there a way to force apt/dpkg to rebuild the menu in X ?

I found that some times you have to do some strange things with complicated packages like x and emacs. first of all make a copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status package and make it think that the paackages haven't been installeed ever by removing all of the packages out of the status file. that is, the

Re: Recovering lost partitions

You could try deleting the partition and try to restore the original format. as long as the file tables haven't been over written, you should be able to recover most of your data if you have used mke2fs on the data area you have deleted you will be most likely out of luck Remember that the size of

Re: making /var bigger

You can mount the new partition under /var and put your data in the new partition. Then you can move your data that you want to place in the new partiton. If you leave directories like `/var/lib alone, most of the other directories will be fine in the new partition. On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Kent West w