Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2020 16:59:25 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 04:49:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Interesting blog, but falls face first in its morning oatmeal > > because the local insulation is not perfect [...] nominally .0001 > > degrees above absolute zer

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 04:49:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Interesting blog, but falls face first in its morning oatmeal because the > local insulation is not perfect [...] nominally .0001 degrees above > absolute zero [...] Trying to picture oatmeal at 1e-4 Kelvin, I think I give up

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2020 16:19:15 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:43:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > On reflection, a typo in a command may have consequences, unlike > > mispeling Debain. So I accept the criticism is not bad form. > > OTOH, having command names which on

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:43:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > On reflection, a typo in a command may have consequences, unlike > mispeling Debain. So I accept the criticism is not bad form. OTOH, having command names which only differ in letter case is somewhat... evil? > Meanwhile, I am tryin

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Jul 2020 at 11:06:42 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:23:26 +0200 > wrote: > > > > > [...] (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know > > > > that, and it's bad form to harp on it.) > > > > > > But, for want of a better response, you could not resist comme

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:23:26 +0200 wrote: > > > [...] (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know > > > that, and it's bad form to harp on it.) > > > > But, for want of a better response, you could not resist commenting > > on the typo. As you say - bad form. :) > > Still possibly usef

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, July 03, 2020 10:34:19 AM David Wright wrote: > Have you tried out your suggestion? I guess you're talking to me, and the answer is no, I haven't. And I have read the rest of your email. When I first came to Linux, the way I decided on my initial distro (which, iirc, was Mandrake, b

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread John Hasler
Babu writes: > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name Apt-get install > multimedia Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : > gstremer ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc.. Please guide me how to do Type apt-cache --names-only search multimedia | less and look through

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Jul 2020 at 06:37:07 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 03, 2020 06:18:04 AM l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > 2 juil. 2020 à 21:37 de baab...@gmail.com: > > > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name > > > > > > Apt-get install multimedia > > > Multimedia need hav

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Le 03/07/2020 à 11:43, Baabu JOY a écrit : > Hello Mr didier >Thanks for your valuable reply . i need depth > understanding how ur doing (apt search multimedia-animation/stable 0.7 ) > Im also expecting same output like this . can u please share information > regarding t

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, July 03, 2020 06:18:04 AM l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Considering the answers you've got so far, I have nothing better to suggest > but a single question because you've intrigued me ;) => Do you mind > sharing a practical use case of such a request please? > > Indeed, from my side, even if

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 2 juil. 2020 à 21:37 de baab...@gmail.com: > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name  > > Apt-get install multimedia > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc.. > > Please guide me how to do  > Considering the answers you've go

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello There are metapackages (groups of packages) in Debian. I am not aware a a global multimedia Debian metapackage There are some multimedia metapackages, though: $ apt search multimedia- [...] multimedia-ambisonics/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) m

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:54:13PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 16:11:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > > > Is 'Apt-get install multimedia' a valid command? > > > > [...] (And the capital A is wrong, but we all know > > that, and it's bad form to harp on it.) > > But, f

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 16:11:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:06:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 15:50:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote: > > > > Hello debain organization > > > >

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 02/07/2020 20:37, Baabu JOY wrote: > Hello debain organization >                         I'm babu. > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name  > > Apt-get install multimedia > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc etc.. > > > > Please

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 15:50:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote: > > Hello debain organization > > I'm babu. > > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name > > > > Apt-get install multimedia > > Multimedia

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:06:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 15:50:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote: > > > Hello debain organization > > > I'm babu. > > > Im trying to install all Deb files thro

Re: Package management

2020-07-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 01:07:42AM +0530, Baabu JOY wrote: > Hello debain organization > I'm babu. > Im trying to install all Deb files through single name > > Apt-get install multimedia > Multimedia need have all multimedia related packages ex : gstremer > ,alsa,ffmpeg,vlc

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:10 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > Which is fine. What problem are you seeing here? > > > > "php5" is a metapackage that requires to install *one of these* packages: > > > > a) libapache2-mod-php5 (or) > > b) libapache2-mod-ph

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 22:23:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm no package management expert. I only install packages when I need > new capabilities, or when doing security updates. I discovered during > this apache2 troubleshooting that I had 1.6GB of .deb files in the apt > package cache. I

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> No need to be a jedi, just put care in what the installer is telling >> you. >> >> When you run apt-get or aptitude to install "roundcube-core" and you >> see a set of packages named "apac

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Which is fine. What problem are you seeing here? > > "php5" is a metapackage that requires to install *one of these* packages: > > a) libapache2-mod-php5 (or) > b) libapache2-mod-php5filter (or) > c) php5-cgi > > You only have to do the right selection b

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 3:51 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache >> rc apache2.2-common >> rc libapache2-mod-php5 >> rc libapr1 >> rc libaprutil1 >> >> What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed >> now,

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/16/11 05:00: > Moving forward... I removed all of the apache2 junk with > '--purge-unused', ran aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade, and > none of the apache2 junk shows up in the upgrade list, which was the > original immediate goal here. I've probably got more c

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/15/2011 7:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >>> On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> There you have it. "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache > rc apache2.2-common > rc libapache2-mod-php5 > rc libapr1 > rc libaprutil1 > > What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed > now, but these 4 still show up. Is there something

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 7:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> There you have it. >>> >>> "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also >>> "apache2.2-common". >>> >>> Now you hav

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/15/11 13:16: > On 10/15/2011 3:56 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> I would try the following: >> >> - to find out what is installed >> aptitude search '~iapache' > > i apache2-mpm-prefork > i apache2-utils > i apache2.2-bin > i apache2.2-common > i libapache

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> There you have it. >> >> "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also >> "apache2.2-common". >> >> Now you have to find out why "libapache2-mod-php5" got inst

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > There you have it. > > "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also > "apache2.2-common". > > Now you have to find out why "libapache2-mod-php5" got installed in your > system because it's an Apache 2 module. T

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:45:11 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > So, if I'm reading this correctly, and these aren't phantom > dependencies, if one wishes to run php5 with lighttpd, one has to have > all of apache2 installed also? Is that correct? That seems strange to > have one httpd so entir

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Stan Hoeppner wrote: >~$ aptitude why apache2 >i phpsysinfo Depends apache2 | httpd > >phpsysinfo seems to have a false dependency--appears the package >maintainer assumes the only httpd server on earth is apache2... This shows that the phpsysinfo dependency is also fulfilled by httpd, which is

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 4:00 AM, Bernd Semler wrote: > aptitude why $packagename ~$ aptitude why apache2 --show-summary Packages requiring apache2: phpsysinfo > and/or in combination with --show-summary (there is an example in the > man page). > > Another proposal is: > > apt-cache rdepends $package

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 3:56 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I would try the following: > > - to find out what is installed > aptitude search '~iapache' i apache2-mpm-prefork i apache2-utils i apache2.2-bin i apache2.2-common i libapache2-mod-php5 > - why it is installed > aptitude why ap

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:06:48 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/15/2011 4:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> What does "dpkg -l|grep -i apache" say? > (...) > ii libapache2-mod-php55.3.3-7+squeeze3 (...) There you have it. "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-pref

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 4:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > What does "dpkg -l|grep -i apache" say? ii apache2-mpm-prefork2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2-utils 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2.2-bin 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2.2-common 2.2.16

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:53:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Symptoms: > I've never used apache2 on the machine in question. I use lighttpd. > "aptitude show apache2" tells me apache2 is not installed. > > Package: apache2 > State: not installed (...) > The problem: > ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade >

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Bernd Semler
Stan Hoeppner schrieb am 14.10.2011 23:53 -0500: > The problem: > ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > The following packages will be upgraded: > apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common > > This has gone on for many years, including when the system

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I would try the following: - to find out what is installed aptitude search '~iapache' - why it is installed aptitude why apache2-mpm-worker maybe this one is only recommended by another package - and what depends on this package aptitude search '~i~Dapache2-mpm-worker' - finally,

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-28 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
aptitude accept almost all apt-get commands... but is better... About apt-get for the future... http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt Regards. Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 12:15 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then, I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not utilizing it's full potential. God's just waiting for you to get complacent, and decide to create a mixed

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daryl Styrk
Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then, I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not utilizing it's full potential. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 07:15 AM, thveillon.debian wrote: Roger Leigh wrote : On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? Ye

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 11:33 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices. Then ap

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:24:19PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote: > >which caused aptitude to run for an hour generating thousands of > >messages about resolving open/closed/defered dependency conflicts > >

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:39:49AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager > > > since Et

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 February 2009 07:15:23 thveillon.debian wrote: > But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and > experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude > performs better. Maybe I just happen to be in this case as well. I have main for stable(+security+

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that > > case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices. > > Then aptitude should remove the CLI interface and st

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager > > since Etch was released. It has better dependency resolution, is more > > user-friendly, and is a bit

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread green
On Fri, 2009-02-27, 058, thveillon.debian wrote: > But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and > experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude > performs better. In this situation I am really happy that aptitude is > showing me the nuts and bolts of the tri

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 13:15:23 +, thveillon.debian (thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com) wrote: > Hi, just sharing a user experience with aptitude, which I use. You do > have a point about apparent simplicity regarding apt-get, most of the > time it just seems to "work", period. It is all the

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Roger Leigh wrote : > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? >>> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get. *That* must be the reason I use apt-get and not aptitude... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > > So, am I doing something completely wrong here? > > > > Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:31:29PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening. > > I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency > conflict

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to > use: apt-get. > Whaa?!??! Wait a sec. This just an unsubstantiated claim. Since I learned about aptitude (a few years ago?), I have been using it consistently. It gives more information than apt-g

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Celejar
On 26 Feb 2009 22:20:58 +0100 Urs Thuermann wrote: ... > 1. aptitude has the nice feature of marking packages that are install >automatically, qhich I always missed in apt-get. But every once in >a while I check the installed package with > > aptitude search . | grep ^i > >

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get. I

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening. I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency conflicts. Still the CUI is no substitute for knowing how to use the aptitude command- li

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > So, am I doing something completely wrong here? > > Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended > us to use: apt-get. Ignore Ron. Aptitude has been the recommended (b

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote: > I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest > of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and > dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more > and more to annoy me, fo

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:20:58PM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest > of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and > dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more > and more to annoy me

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more and more to annoy me, for several reasons.

Re: Package management questions

2006-11-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
There are, I understand, problems that come up when you mix apt-get with aptitude. Does switching to aptitude preclude using those graphical tools? ... but update-notifier and synaptic are examples of fantastic GUI programs that I would not want to give up. Can anyone clear this up? I'm n

Re: Package management questions

2006-11-28 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:50:32AM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > Hello all, > > I've followed every thread on this list about these programs, and not > seen these issues really addressed. I was wondering if anyone would > care to clarify (from an objective, non-cheerleader stance) the > dif

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
David Wright wrote: > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > whatever error codes any scripts return, thus allowing you to start over > from a pristine pre-install state? Something like > dpkg

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > > 2) Is there any way to tell dpkg to mark a specific package with a hold > flag without going through the dselect menus? I always end up getting > lost and doing things I don't want to in dselect, and I really want to > be able

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:52:00AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > On 4/13/02 8:28 AM, "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > > whatever error codes any scr

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > Okay, I have calmed down a bit since I sent my "kill, kill, kill" mail, > and now have some more rationally formulated questions about package > management. > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Bob Koss
On 4/13/02 8:28 AM, "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > whatever error codes any scripts return, thus allowing you to start over > from a pristine

Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i crafted one concerning mostly apt-get, tho it touches on some >of the dpkg features -- it's at > >http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html A few comments on that, some on the content, some typographical. From reading through it, it's an

Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
Ameurlain Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The documentation people may know more about a howto, but ... >Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-10 (using .../libc6_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement libc6 ... >Replacing files in old package ldso ... That's fine. ldso isn't needed these da

Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:20:02PM +0100, Ameurlain Antoine wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know if there's a simple start document about > debian package management (e.g. an howto). dpkg, apt-get, dselect > are mighty but quite hard to really understand. > I would also like to have a descriptio

Re: package management?

2000-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, ethan mindlace fremen wrote: > debians, > I have slink running on a production server. Some of the packages are > inferior to those I need, but the packages in potato are ok. Can I > download those debs and install them without a problem?