Re: How to permanently increase aptitude upgrade points

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iul 12, 20:32:07, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and > very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than > upgrade a couple of packages. These packages are not held back (aptitude > calls them "ke

Re: How to permanently increase aptitude upgrade points

2012-07-16 Thread Jochen Spieker
Panayiotis Karabassis: > > I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and > very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than > upgrade a couple of packages. Just run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in these cases. It offers better solutions in many cases. You can

How to permanently increase aptitude upgrade points

2012-07-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi, I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than upgrade a couple of packages. These packages are not held back (aptitude calls them "kept back"), even though they may be manually installed. Is there a way

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 28.06.2012 15:13, Joby Mathew wrote: > root@test:~# aptitude upgrade > The following packages will be upgraded: > acpid at base-files bind9-host dnsutils host libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 > libbind9-60 libbrlapi0.5 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 > liblwr

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:43:48PM +0530, Joby Mathew wrote: >root@test:~# aptitude upgrade� >The following packages will be upgraded:� [cut] >53 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >Need to get 0 B/43.5 MB of archives. After unpacking

i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Joby Mathew
root@test:~# aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: acpid at base-files bind9-host dnsutils host libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libbind9-60 libbrlapi0.5 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 liblwres60 libmozjs2d libmysqlclient16 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-31 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:54:36PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Freeman wrote: > > Maybe > > > > apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 > > > > All this does is list the 4 MPM types repeatedly ... > > [snip] > root@Blackdragon:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-30 15:36:49 Chris Brennan wrote: >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your system. >> Try 'aptitude why apache2.2-bin', maybe it will shed some light on why >> it is installed. > >Ya I just did that and i

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Freeman wrote: Maybe > > apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 > All this does is list the 4 MPM types repeatedly ... [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 ... apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-prefork ap

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu < > andreimpope...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: > >> > > >> > So why the hell is apa

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > My laptop was off for about a week and when I fired it up today, I ran an > update and then an upgrade on my squeeze install and today I noticed this > > [snip] > root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude upgrade > The followin

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> >> On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: >> > >> > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install >> > w/ >> > no "server" services? >> >> It's b

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install > w/ > > no "server" services? > > It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your system. > Try

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: > > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install w/ > no "server" services? It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your system. Try 'aptitude why apache2.2-bin', maybe it will shed some light on why

aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
My laptop was off for about a week and when I fired it up today, I ran an update and then an upgrade on my squeeze install and today I noticed this [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: apache2.2-bin bind9-host dnsutils gdm3 google-chrome-stable

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
solved this now. So simple in the end, simply removing the _'s from the version field in /var/lib/dpkg/status fixed it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
(I must of been sleep deprived when I replied last month as I inadvertantly replied directly to godo rather than the list as well) /var/lib/available seems to be empty I noticed. Removing virtualbox-2.1 from /var/lib/dpkg/status doesn't make a difference. It seems it is a bug in virtualbox-2.1, f

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-02-25 Thread Kelly Harding
On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: >> hi >> >> have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: >> >> dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line > > [...] > >> Results in i

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: > hi > > have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: > > dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line [...] > Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system. > Anyone come

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 08:13 AM, Kelly Harding wrote: hi have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character

aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-26 Thread Kelly Harding
hi have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number exim4-config.postinst: [WARN]

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-23 10:32, Wolodja Wentland wrote: [snip] Read the manpage - In a nutshell: upgrade Deprecated safe-upgradeUpgrade listed/all packages to newest version, don't remove packages "don't remove packages" That's why OP is getting the failure. cvs and cvsnt c

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 15:25 +, John O Laoi wrote: > > Why the mixed system? > Apologies, I am using Squeeze. The Lenny CDs are commented out. Important information - make sure to mention it next time. > > cvsnt conflicts with cvs.  You can't have both at the same time. > Should I remove o

aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread John O Laoi
>> >> The following is my sources.list: >> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >> # >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST >> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main >> >> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST >> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-23 08:57, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done [snip] Resolving dependencies... The following packages have unmet dependencies: cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 13:57 +, John O Laoi wrote: > # aptitude safe-upgrade [...] > cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12 is installed. [...] > Any ideas? I assume that aptitude needs to remove a package in order to satisfy other packages (cvsnt) dependencies/conflicts. Try "full-upgrade

aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done

aptitude upgrade - deleting old directories

2009-04-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
I upgraded today my testing: Preparing to replace alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 (using .../alsa-utils_1.0.19-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement alsa-utils ... dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/etc/alsa/modprobe-post-install.d': Directory not empty dpkg: warning - unable to delete old d

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-02-02 Thread Flo
Meanwhile I wrote a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513157 And if it is only to get an explanation for this behavior ;-) Thank you. Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> there may again appear files in this directory. I would expect to see >> there >> files only in the case the "update" command is interrupted. But may be >> something >> is wrong with apt-get. Time to file a bug report? > > I definitely did this sometimes. Not recently though. I will

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-28 Thread Flo
there may again appear files in this directory. I would expect to see there files only in the case the "update" command is interrupted. But may be something is wrong with apt-get. Time to file a bug report? I definitely did this sometimes. Not recently though. I will observe the behaviour of ap

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> >> Also take a look into directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. There may >> be left >> some files. I had to remove them by hand. > > I found there more than 400 files, mainly diff files, but some others as > well. > > Is it better to remove them??? > > Flo. > This directory belon

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-25 Thread Flo
Also take a look into directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. There may be left some files. I had to remove them by hand. I found there more than 400 files, mainly diff files, but some others as well. Is it better to remove them??? Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> >> I don't know the timing, but I wonder if it could be as simple as >> mirror skew. >> > > Probably you are right. I did the right thing at the wrong time. And > spent hours on searching a problem which didn't exist. > > Nevertheless, thank you for your help. > > Flo. > > Als

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Flo Debian
> >No, nothing special. I just have different sources in the menu.lst. > > Your GRUB configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst) is an odd place to store apt > sources. Don't you think the normal place (/etc/apt/sources.list) would > be better? :) > Sorry, I was too stupid. I just had to edit menu.ls

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 January 2009, Flo wrote about 'Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem': >No, nothing special. I just have different sources in the menu.lst. Your GRUB configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst) is an odd place to store apt sources. Don't you think the normal place (/et

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
I don't know the timing, but I wonder if it could be as simple as mirror skew. Probably you are right. I did the right thing at the wrong time. And spent hours on searching a problem which didn't exist. Nevertheless, thank you for your help. Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
According to what you posted earlier today, apt doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 yet. Assuming you are on Lenny/Sid you might try "aptitude update" to resolve that. Or better: It doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 anymore. Because it did know and downloaded the version. aptitude update: T

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:04:28PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Thursday 2009 January 22 15:24:57 Flo wrote: > >The second update must have confused it. How could it happen and, more > >important, how can I fix this? > > Yeah, I'm not sure how that confused it, but it c

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2009 January 22 15:24:57 Flo wrote: >You are right! 2007.dfsg.2-1 is the uptodate version. 2007.dfsg.1-1 is >the old version which is installed and should be upgraded. According to what you posted earlier today, apt doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 yet. Assuming you are on Lenny/Sid

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
It looks like being installed but it isn't. How do you know that 2007.dfsg.1-1 isn't what is actually installed? All these seem to agree that it is what is installed. Could you do some sort of sha1sum test to verify your version of the files shipped in this package actually differ from the

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2009 January 22 13:38:27 Flo wrote: ># aptitude upgrade >No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > ># dpkg -s texlive-doc-base >Status: install ok installed >Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1 > ># aptitude show texlive-doc-base >State: installed >Version

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgrade In the meantime I got another package to install but all previously downloaded packages are marked to be uptodate but they are not. If I understand correctly: you mean that aptitude doesn't

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
Thanks for your email. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgrade In the meantime I got another

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
ut instead of saying 'aptitude > upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: > > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > > In the meantime I got another package to install but all previously > downloaded packages are marked to be uptodate but they are not. If I underst

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Juha Tuuna
Flo wrote: > Hi, > > I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. > > I am running debian testing and I did the following: > > aptitude update > aptitude -d upgrade > > Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude >

Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
Hi, I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgra

Re: udftools aptitude upgrade error

2009-01-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2009-01-05 17:42 +0100, Hugh Lawson wrote: > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > Setting up udftools (1.0.0b3-14) ... > Starting udftools packet writing: > /dev/pktcdvd/0=/dev/hdc Device node '0' already in use > invoke-rc.

Re: udftools aptitude upgrade error

2009-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-05 17:42 +0100, Hugh Lawson wrote: > How do I troubleshoot this issue? > > 'aptitude upgrade' in lenny returned an error, which follows: > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > udftools > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

udftools aptitude upgrade error

2009-01-05 Thread Hugh Lawson
How do I troubleshoot this issue? 'aptitude upgrade' in lenny returned an error, which follows: Errors were encountered while processing: udftools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up udftools (

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sunday 22 June 2008 02:54:03 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Glad to do it.  In this case, it is NOT badly written packages, but > > rather a design choice of Debian Multimedia to go with a lib that is > > newer then stable or testing.  You will run into this err

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sunday 22 June 2008 01:49:37 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Paul, > > > > See this line: > > > > >  processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb > >  (--unpack): > >   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libswscale.so.0.5.0', which is also i

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun June 22 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > Consider removing the offending lib*cvs* packages from the > debian-multimedia repository. > > > do I just wait for newer packages?? > > See the instructions on http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > when I tried that I get: Beware : downgrading to these pa

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:05 am Paul Cartwright wrote: > Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. > tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) > U

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-22 15:37 +0200, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. > tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpackin

latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libavutil49 (from .../libavutil49_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb)

Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2008 09:31 AM: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Greetings; >> >> I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and >> everything

Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Greetings; > > I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and > everything works fine up to a point. > > Everything is downloaded and after it starts

Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and everything works fine up to a point. Everything is downloaded and after it starts the installs I get messages like this. This is the first set. > Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 (using > .../util-linux

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I configure apt.conf.d/proxy, then things work... I use apt-get > and aptitude with sudo as a non root user. Might be the the > environment variables are lost with sudo? Exactly that. If you want to preserve them, you should add a line with De

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 10/25/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > > through a proxy server whenever required. > > > > However I've tri

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > through a proxy server whenever required. > > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck...

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > through a proxy server whenever required. > > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay a

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them. Does > any one know how to overcome this? Also, I liked the environment > variables solution beca

aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages through a proxy server whenever required. However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them. Does any one know how to overcome this? Also, I

Re: Aptitude, upgrade and pinning

2007-05-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:08:35AM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Could you quote what aptitude actually output? > > debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable > Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto > Generazione dell'albe

Re: Aptitude, upgrade and pinning

2007-04-22 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
Daniel Burrows wrote: > Could you quote what aptitude actually output? debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso... Fatto Lettura delle informazioni sullo stato esteso Inizializzazione dello st

Re: Aptitude, upgrade and pinning

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:45:34PM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > But aptitude install -f kde/unstable gives me this output: > > == > debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable > . > . > . > The following packages were blocke

Aptitude, upgrade and pinning

2007-04-22 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
I'd like to upgrade some packages from testing to unstable My configuration is the following one: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # Lenny [Testing] deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.it.deb

Re: aptitude upgrade: 181 packages have been kept back:

2006-02-18 Thread steef
Luc Saffre wrote: Hello, `aptitude upgrade` suddenly tells me that a lot of packages have been kept back. Is there an explanation to why this can happen? I did not ask to keep them from being upgraded. I am on "testing" for some weeks now and did already several successful `aptit

aptitude upgrade

2006-02-15 Thread Cedric BRINER
hi, I've made a small deb repository which some specifics applications there. I'd like to automatically install/upgrade the packages which belong to this repository. cat /etc/apt/sources.list # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://obsapt:/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb http:/

Re: raid error after aptitude upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread Ralf Herrmann
Hi, I had a similar problem yesterday and came across your post while searching for a glue. There was no reply, so just in case.. I found something, might be a problem when using devfs and udev at the same time with 2.6 kernel or something. You might want to look at the following page http://bu

Re: [Solved] Re: [Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

2004-11-29 Thread ocl
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote on 2004-11-29 14:03: By the way, what does obsolete packages mean in synoptic (could not find anything about it in the help)? Is it like with aptitude? I preferred aptitude over apt-get because it would remove useless packages whenever the dependencies of main packages woul

[Solved] Re: [Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

2004-11-29 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried "aptitude install" for a few of them, especially capplets, eog, > > totem, and > libgnome2-0, > > but aptitude tells me that 200+ pakages (mainly gnome-related, but not > > exclusively as > pkg-config > > is among them!) are no longer used and will

[Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

2004-11-28 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I am using Debian SID/unstable with both KDE and GNOME installed. Custom Kernel 2.6.9! For about a week now I have been trying to update the packages I got on my system. But each time I do it (about daily) it does update some of the packages just fine but can't seem to be able to do anythin

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Silvan
> And dist-upgrade is for when you want to get all the new funky features. > Which many of us do :-). It only breaks things if the packages uploaded > by the maintainers are broken. Ok, that occasionally happens, which is > why you don't use "dist-upgrade" on your production servers except with >

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > > > An equally adequate reference is available as: > > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > > ...which is not too hard to paste: > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > This command will also attempt

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > An equally adequate reference is available as: > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README ...which is not too hard to paste: aptitude dist-upgrade This command will also attempt to upgrade packages, but it is more aggressive about solving depe

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread dircha
cwinl wrote: hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. I see that while dist-upgrade is documented in the aptitude documentation, it is not mentioned in the manual page. The aptitude manual page references the apt-get manual page ('man apt-get'). I suggest you take a look

what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-04 Thread cwinl
hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. -- P4/2.4B ELSA 528/128 512MB DDR333 240GB MSI 845PE BenQ FP557s Pioneer DVD-120A LG GCE-8320B -- http://www.cwinl.com/ http://forum.lnnu.edu.cn/

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:53:54 -0600 Nathan Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > All of the correct modules are being loaded, but when I attempt to > > run"/etc/init.d/pcmcia start', the process just hangs, sitting at > > this mes

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > All of the correct modules are being loaded, but when I attempt to run > "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start', the process just hangs, sitting at this > message; > > Starting PCMCIA Services: Intel PCIC probe: Not Found > using yenta_socket

Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
t;, followed by "aptitude upgrade:, and this is where things went down hill. After dpkg/aptitude started installing the updated files, it got to the "pcmcia-cs" updated file, and it promptly hung than machine. I couldn't change screens 0x0003) eth0: Xircom CardBus revision 3 at

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:44:12PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:47:11 -0400 > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > How do I keep from having this particular package downloaded? > > > > I suspect th

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:47:11 -0400 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is > > not numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this > > particular

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is not > numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this > particular program to be downgraded every week. > > How do I keep from having this particu

aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is not numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this particular program to be downgraded every week. How do I keep from having this particular package downloaded? Unfortunately, I use this particular package every