Re: finally got lenny installed

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:17:50PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I occasionally even get emails from people who say they use > aptitude over other package managers because of this feature, despite the > fact that the version of Debian they're running includes my imp

Re: finally got lenny installed

Robin wrote: On 27/02/2008, *Daniel Burrows* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep

Re: finally got lenny installed

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:05:29PM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under > > Options/Dependency Handling by disabling "Remove unused packages > > automatica

Re: finally got lenny installed

On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the > > wrong way round from a user perspective. > > > Because they were

Re: finally got lenny installed

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the > wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no

Re: finally got lenny installed

On 27/02/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: > > > On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other > >> packages gdm would like to remove with it including

Re: finally got lenny installed

On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: > On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other >> packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome >> environment. I think I may just rename gdm to s

Re: finally got lenny installed

Try this: update-rc.d gdm stop 99 2 3 4 5 Regards, Andrei On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:30:26PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other > packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome > environment. I think I may

Re: finally got lenny installed

synaptic and orca don't play well together last I had heard. If I can get the graphical user interface coming up and log in successfully I'll be able to do more. For now it's close to working but not there yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: finally got lenny installed

On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other > packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome > environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to > have a possibility

re: finally got lenny installed

I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively. -- To UN