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On 06/07/2014 07:52 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-07 at 3:38, Raffaele Morelli wrote:]
>> Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those flames
>> are more and more frequent.
>
> I can tell you who started them: Jerry Stuc
From: Raffaele Morelli
To: Debian User
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those flames are more and
> more frequent.
I c
ebian-user@lists.debian.org
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On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> Not true.
>
> I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup
> to be a very
You're lying. Your social media friends say otherwise.
I'm happily married.
From: Jerry Stuckle
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 2:01 AM
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On 6/6/201
2014-06-06 20:10 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico :
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jerry Stuckle
> wrote:
> > Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, also. And
> > you were kicked out of them. So you had to find another place to troll.
> >
>
> Does this discussion really need
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, also. And
> you were kicked out of them. So you had to find another place to troll.
>
Does this discussion really need to continue?
ChrisA
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On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
Not true.
I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup
to be a very interesting case study for students of psychology.
Then why don't you go back to them?
Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, a
On 6/6/2014 12:26 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
Poor old Jerry.
He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man.
ROFLMAO! I am happily married - unlike you.
But then your personal attacks show your level of maturity.
Jerry
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>> Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
>>
>>
>>> Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told
>>> this more than once yet he comes back with an
Poor old Jerry.
He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man.
From: Jerry Stuckle
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:47 PM
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On 6/6
From: Jerry Stuckle
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> No, it means you are still at the same mental maturity level as a third
> grader.
Your replie
From: The Wanderer
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> In either case, the only thing to do would be to begin outright ignoring you
> (possi
On 6/6/2014 2:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon wrote:
From: Bob Holtzman
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On 6/6/2014 9:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote:
Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus
'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart,
even if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea,
maybe not, but you need to use what todays pe
On 6/6/2014 6:12 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
*From:* Jerry Stuckle
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM
*Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> LOL! L
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On 06/06/2014 09:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote:
> Ever heard of etymological fallacy?
No, but it's an idea that makes sense.
> Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus 'taken apart', yet we use the
> term for anything that's falling apart, even if it's not
Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus
'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart, even
if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea, maybe not,
but you need to use what todays people think of a forum to be correct..
Not t
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On 06/06/2014 06:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-06 at 1:51, Bob Holtzman wrote:]
>> BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list?
>> You seem to use "forum" as a catchall.
>
> A forum is a website whose member
How much time did you waste on creating that?
Goodbye to you too.
You'll not be missed :)
From: Steve Litt
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On Wed,
From: Jerry Stuckle
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> LOL! Last time I was called that was in third grade or so. It shows your
> level of maturity
From: Bob Holtzman
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list? You seem
> to use "
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon wrote:
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> From: Bob Holtzman
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and depen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:13:47PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
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> From: Bob Holtzman
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and depen
On 6/5/2014 1:13 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
*From:* Bob Holtzman
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
*Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> Ralph
Hi Horatio,
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian
Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list.
Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity
lenses spyware that i
From: Bob Holtzman
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told this more
> than once y
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
snip
>
> "Before You Ask
>
> Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a
> website chat board, do the following:
>
> 1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the foru
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> How do I learn it?
Learning by doing ;).
$ chown --help
Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
[snip]
Examples:
chown root /uChange the owner of /u to "root".
c
From: Ralf Mardorf
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a
> man(ual)page, b
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:50:38PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
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>Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM
>Subject: Re: Remove unwant
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual > First hit:
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get
JFTR for the search term: apt-get man
or for: apt-get manpage
The second hit is manpages.debian.net ;).
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On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 00:14 +0100, Brian wrote:
> No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get)
A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of
a man(ual)page, but you need to learn it.
Btw. you could use a search engine to do research in the Internet.
https://startpage.com/
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> apt-get -f install
>
> means a "force" install, am I correct?
No, you aren't!
"-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place." -
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get
dpkg -i d
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
>
> From: Brian
>
> > The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay
> > between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous.
> > Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and
>
> > dpkg -i
>
> >
From: Brian
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay
> between dpkg and apt is sti
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 19:00:46 +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
> > >
> > > Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
> > > 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the a
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
> >
> > Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
> > 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools
> > are front-ends for. It does no dependency checking,
From: The Wanderer
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> That depends on a number of other factors.
> Literally speaking, dpkg will s
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On 06/03/2014 07:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-03 at 5:08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:]
>> Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do
>> dependency checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to
>> install it will
From: Andrei POPESCU
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency
> checking. When pr
On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
>
> Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
> 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools are
> front-ends for. It does no dependency checking,
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do depende
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 20:05:23 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with
> apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend
> the one in the package "debian-reference-en" (or another language you prefer)
> whi
My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with
apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend
the one in the package "debian-reference-en" (or another language you prefer)
which of course is also available on the debian site.
The search option of
On 2014-06-01, Joe wrote:
>
> Other than that, it is a matter of personal preference. Aptitude has
> a command-line text mode and an interactive text-graphics mode, apt-get
> is older and is purely text. Aptitude merges various tools under one
> command, apt-get, apt-cache and others make up a sma
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 05:49:24 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon wrote:
>
>
> I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to
> use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt'
> command. Is that correct?
>
For the last few upgrades (to my knowledge, maybe alway
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 05:49:24 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to
> use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt'
> command. Is that correct?
No. The context you probably saw that in is important.
> > $ aptitu
From: Jörg-Volker Peetz
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Thanks for your help, Jorg.
> The aptitude command offers some help:
I read somewhere on
The aptitude command offers some help:
$ aptitude search '~c'
searches for packages that were removed but not purged, i.e., their
configuration files are still present;
to get rid of these files order
$ aptitude purge '~c'
Next:
$ aptitude search '~g'
searches for packages not required by any
Op Sat, 31 May 2014 09:09:22 +0200 schreef Horatio Leragon
:
After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there
are unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around.
How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS?
Try the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get autoremove --
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