On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> Other responses in this thread give good suggestions for searching
> for packages. But, suppose your question is something like: What
> package contains file or application xyz? In effect, you are
> saying: I need file/app xyz? What
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Hey Guys, thanks for all the comments. I think I may have picked up a few
tricks in your comments. However, my issue was not one of searching,
it was
one of not having the package downloaded and available to
install(linux-image-
2.6.5-1-686). I was using sid only and
Hey Guys, thanks for all the comments. I think I may have picked up a few
tricks in your comments. However, my issue was not one of searching, it was
one of not having the package downloaded and available to
install(linux-image-
2.6.5-1-686). I was using sid only and unknown to me the kernel had
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Allen wrote:
> >Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache
> >installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find
> >$package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but
> >insta
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:12:28AM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Simonelli
wrote:
> On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote:
> > 'aptitude search ' works for me. I have never really needed to
> > use apt-cache or apt-file to search for applications. I've always used
> > 'aptitude search f
On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier
wrote:
> > Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get,
> > aptitude and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes
> > and purges. I'
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier
wrote:
> Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get, aptitude
> and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes and purges.
> I'm certainly no Debian linux expert, if anyone is. I do
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
--- Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
snip
Looks like you still want a mechanism for keeping specific versions of
specific packages in cache.
What I do is copy the .debs elsewhere, su
Allen wrote:
Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache
installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find
$package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but
install it: `aptitide -d install $package_name` (latter need to be as
root).
Not to
his.
> > >
> > > --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
> > >> From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >> Subject: Another APT Issue
t;> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
> >> From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The
> >> Linux-Images
> >> To: debian-user
> >>
> >> I now have only 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 kernels in my
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please
someone help me out on this.
--- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another APT Issue-W
Leonard,
On 2006-06-17T10:06:42-0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Would appreciate anyone telling me how to get all the
> > kernel/linux-images back int my cache files so I can pick the one I
> > want instaled. Plz copy my email-not subscribed.
Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you
This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please
someone help me out on this.
--- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are Th
I now have only 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 kernels in my cache
file, while a short time ago I had from 2.4.18-bf2.4
to 2.6.16 and everything in between. Aptitude removed
a working installed 2.6.15 linux-image before I could
blink and I would like to reinstall it but its not
there. I did do an autoclean but
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