On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:06:25PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
> >I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off
> >downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it
> >that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:03:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information
Why is that?
> is not on any link in Google's first 5 pages. I have looked of debian
> man, which tells me how to make one from scratch (which is awesome, bu
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:02:24 +0100
somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Please trim your quotes.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:30:46PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> >
> >Try
> >
> > apt-get sources list debian format
> >
> >into google: first hit is APT Howto, second is the Debian tutorial, both
> >on www.debian.org or its mirrors.
> >
>
> Yeah, you cheated b
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Try
apt-get sources list debian format
into google: first hit is APT Howto, second is the Debian tutorial, both
on www.debian.org or its mirrors.
Yeah, you cheated by finding the page then searching the key words you
saw on it to bring it up.
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> >>
> >No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious
> >to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere.
> >Google is your friend, as is browsing the archives of the maili
Joe Hart wrote:
I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off
downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it
that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge.
The packages there are old, and have very different dependencies.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:06:25PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> If i use a tarball, i have to wait for an error message, go get a
> dependancy, try again, get another, try again... and this is fine by all
> developers minds. To mine it is not. There is a problem.
Wherever you get the tarball
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> So the single line answer would be "use aptitude exclusively and it's
> awesome". The thing is I've started with apt now :-(
So stop using apt-get or anything but aptitude. Start aptitude
interactivly and get everything set up (o
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Joe Hart wrote:
> So the single line answer would be "use aptitude exclusively and it's
> awesome". The thing is I've started with apt now :-(
You can switch to aptitude -- it just will assume that
Joe Hart wrote:
I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off
downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it
that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge.
The packages there are old, and have very different dependencies.
J
Joe Hart wrote:
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It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF
you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling).
Many many things I want are not in repositories for some reas
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious
to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere.
Google is your friend, as is browsing the archives of the mailing list.
Hope this helps,
Andy
Andrew I'm sure you get a lot of threads
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:51:02PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I added the lines:
> >
> >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> >20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-
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somethin2cool wrote:
> I think the point might have got lost in there:
>
> So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one.
> Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information
> is not on any link in Google's
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It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF
you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling).
Many many things I want are not in repositories for some reason,
Amy Templeton wrote:
This is true, but a bad attitude does come out in the
presentation of that thought. Comments like "Apparently this
is too obvious to bother writing anywhere" when complaining
about a lack of documentation aren't productive--if taken at
face value, this particular example is
I think the point might have got lost in there:
So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one.
Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information
is not on any link in Google's first 5 pages. I have looked of debian
man, which tells me how to make on
somethin2cool wrote:
> When uninstalling an ap, dependencies which are no longer
> required should also be uninstalled.
Aptitude (a front-end to apt which, I believe, is installed
by default, and which has both a true commandline interface
(with switches more or less identical to APT's) and a
term
Joe Hart wrote:
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Well things are going well now. I have ethernet internet (so i have to
sit by the router) and can install from DVD.
But lots of things are still a royal pain when it comes to installing.
It seems there a
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> Well things are going well now. I have ethernet internet (so i have to
> sit by the router) and can install from DVD.
>
> But lots of things are still a royal pain when it comes to installing.
>
> It seems there are n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I added the lines:
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch
Jochen Schulz wrote:
[snip]
> You might want to take a look at the Debian Reference to get an overview
> of Debian-related tools and concepts:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference
or you could install it to your system (so you can read it in the
absence of web access :-) :
apti
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>> Apt-get install synaptic
>>> And it came up with errors that the repositories do not exist. The DVD
>>> Binary-1 was mounted.
>>
>> Did you run 'apt-get update' before trying to install? If not, it
>> couldn't have possibly worked. Apt needs to k
Jochen Schulz wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I added the lines:
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/L
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I added the lines:
>
> Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2
> 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0
I added the lines:
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binar
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