Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-25 Thread Aaron
Wow this has been a nagging question for me both with apt-get and ipkg. My solution was alway to remove the offending package and then install the new one removing all such conflicts until the new package would install. I never realized you could do a force with dpkg and specifiy the exact

Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Aviram Jenik wrote: > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:02, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > > Hello > > > > apt-get -f install > [...] > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb

Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
This method worked very well. Thanks Aviram Jenik wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:02, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hello in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to run apt-get -f install This happens once in a while. No need to be especially alarmed. the

Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-24 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:02, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > Hello > > in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to > run apt-get -f install This happens once in a while. No need to be especially alarmed. > > the result of the action is here: >

Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > Hello > > in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to > run apt-get -f install > this means that ther ewas already an error and there are some unconfigured packages. > the resul

Re: apt-get -f install

2004-11-24 Thread Lior Kaplan
run dpkg --configure -a before trying to install new software. It will configure half installed packages. Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hello in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to run apt-get -f install the result of the action is here: apt-get -f install Reading

apt-get -f install

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hello in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to run apt-get -f install the result of the action is here: apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed

Re: Linux on Desktops (Debian) and apt-get updates

2004-09-20 Thread Lior Kaplan
nds what Amos said, apt-get update should not cause any problems. apt-get upgrade I would do automatically only in woody / sarge not in SID. apt-get dist-upgrade I would never do automatically. Amos idea about using dpkg's get-selections / set-selections would work only if you have to sa

Re: Linux on Desktops (Debian) and apt-get updates

2004-09-20 Thread amos
I do have a cron job which automatically updates the index files and downloads the packages but doesn't install them. I could make it install them as well if I liked: /usr/bin/apt-get --quiet update; /usr/bin/apt-get --quiet --yes --download-only upgrade there is also package cron-apt which doe

Linux on Desktops (Debian) and apt-get updates

2004-09-20 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, Does anyone have some experience with handling a few desktops (Linux based) installed with Debian in regard to updates... How do you manage them? i.e. do you use crontab to make them all do dist-upgrade? etc.. -- Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.beyondsecurity.com http://

Re: apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread aamehl
On ד', 2004-07-21 at 12:37, David Harel wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs > back older packages which I manually updated? > I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE > 3.2.2 at th

Re: apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread Haggai Eran
y David Harel: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs > back older packages which I manually updated? > I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE > 3.2.2 at the time). What it did is reverted me back to K

Re: apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:37:49PM +0300, David Harel wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs > back older packages which I manually updated? > I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE > 3.2.2 at

Re: apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread Lior Kaplan
thing exists in apt-rpm. David Harel wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs back older packages which I manually updated? I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE 3.2.2 at the time). What it did is reverted me back to KD

Re: apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting David Harel, from the post of Wed, 21 Jul: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs > back older packages which I manually updated? > I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE > 3.2.2 at the tim

apt-get

2004-07-21 Thread David Harel
Hi, Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs back older packages which I manually updated? I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE 3.2.2 at the time). What it did is reverted me back to KDE 3.1 -- Thanks. David Harel

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-28 Thread Lior Kaplan
Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Maxim Kovgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Linux-IL Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:00 AM Subject: Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans? > On Mon

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:38:04AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: > > > > hi Noam! > > it is great you've brought up the subject, > > and if u find more info on what exactly was there, > > p

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Kovgan wrote: how often do you dissassemble your compiled code ? According to the following, even dissassemling your compiled code won't be trusty because how can you trust your dissassembler that it wasn't trojan'ed to hide the melicious code? http://www.acm.org/

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: hi Noam! it is great you've brought up the subject, and if u find more info on what exactly was there, please post it on here. This link has surfaced lately: http://www

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: > > hi Noam! > it is great you've brought up the subject, > and if u find more info on what exactly was there, > please post it on here. This link has surfaced lately: http://www.wiggy.net/deb

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Maxim Kovgan wrote: how often do you dissassemble your compiled code ? According to the following, even dissassemling your compiled code won't be trusty because how can you trust your dissassembler that it wasn't trojan'ed to hide the melicious code? http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Excellent re

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Maxim Kovgan
mpromised until now. and the only time it was down - was because the building it was in caught fire. Thanks. Max. > Hi, > > I was wondering if Debian.org was hacked, how far was I as a simple user doing > routinely "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" (

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:36:46PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Last - a correction for Muli. While the main distro site was not broken > into, the "security" and "non-us" sites were. Apparently, non of the > packages were tampered with, but the actual servers holding the packages > were, in

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: So far for the theory. In practice, I'm not sure whether the mechanism for checking these signatures is easilly installable. As such, it is likely that many, if not most, Debian installations do not, in fact, verify signatures against the debian-keyring. I was wondering ab

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I was wondering if Debian.org was hacked, how far was I as a simple user doing routinely "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" (on the stable Debian) from getting my system Trojaned? Or as an advanced user doing the same on the unstable pa

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The debian advisory was very explicit that the archive was never compromised. I haven't heard any more details, but I'd love to hear how the break in occured and what where there trust relationships between the broken-into machines and the archive machines. And how are they

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:25:01PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if Debian.org was hacked, how far was I as a simple > user doing routinely "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" > (oan the stable Debian) from getting my system

Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, I was wondering if Debian.org was hacked, how far was I as a simple user doing routinely "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" (on the stable Debian) from getting my system Trojaned? Or as an advanced user doing the same on the unstable packages? Thanks Noa

Re: apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread Moshe Shemesh
proxy and port is the TCP/IP port it listens on. Mosh - Original Message - From: "alex rait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:51 PM Subject: apt-get I cannot make it work with my redhat 8.0. The message I get is that it c

Re: apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread Andre E. Bar'yudin
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:51:47PM -0700, alex rait wrote: > I cannot make it work with my redhat 8.0. The message I get is that it cannot > connect to some host. I am behind a proxy, but I don't know how to specify it in the > console. > Is there a way to do that? I believe it is some kind of en

apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread alex rait
I cannot make it work with my redhat 8.0. The message I get is that it cannot connect to some host. I am behind a proxy, but I don't know how to specify it in the console. Is there a way to do that? I believe it is some kind of environment variable, but which one and where can I find it? thank yo

Re: apt-get for cygwin

2003-03-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:49:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does anyone knows of apt-get which i can use for the cygwin distribution ? > or any other similiar solution ? It does not compile (yet?). Search the debian-win32 archives. Didi > > >

apt-get for cygwin

2003-03-27 Thread erez
does anyone knows of apt-get which i can use for the cygwin distribution ? or any other similiar solution ? cheers, erez. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-19 Thread Barry Rabinowitz
On Saturday 18 January 2003 17:00, you wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:49:32PM -0200, Barry Rabinowitz wrote: > > I am using Debian's non-US mirror for Israel as shown in their list of > > official mirrors : > > ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Debian-non-US/ > > http://ftp.iglu.org.

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-19 Thread Barry Rabinowitz
On Saturday 18 January 2003 15:50, you wrote: > Barry Rabinowitz wrote: > >On Saturday 18 January 2003 05:56, you wrote: > > > > > >>>I am using Woody . > >>>Barry. > >> > >>well what the directory name you are trying to get? since 404 means page > >>not found maybe your directory name is wrong in

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-18 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:49:32PM -0200, Barry Rabinowitz wrote: > > > I am using Debian's non-US mirror for Israel as shown in their list of > official mirrors : > ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Debian-non-US/ > http://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Debian-non-US/ > Pleas

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-18 Thread Barry Rabinowitz
On Saturday 18 January 2003 05:56, you wrote: > > I am using Woody . > > Barry. > > well what the directory name you are trying to get? since 404 means page > not found maybe your directory name is wrong in my source.list it`s > deb ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Debian stable main cont

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-18 Thread Eran 'DarkEye' Uzan
On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:13, Barry Rabinowitz wrote: > Is iglu.org.il up and running or is there some other reason for the HTTP > 404 I get when I try to update apt with ftp.iglu.org.il in my source.list? > Have been trying to install skipstone, to no avail. > I am using Woody . > Barry. wel

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:13:49AM -0200, Barry Rabinowitz wrote: > Is iglu.org.il up and running or is there some other reason for the HTTP 404 > I get when I try to update apt with ftp.iglu.org.il in my source.list? > Have been trying to install skipstone, to no avail. > I am using

Re: Cannot stat iglu.org.il with apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread Barry Rabinowitz
Is iglu.org.il up and running or is there some other reason for the HTTP 404 I get when I try to update apt with ftp.iglu.org.il in my source.list? Have been trying to install skipstone, to no avail. I am using Woody . Barry. =

Re: OO with apt-get ?

2002-05-22 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:08:08PM +0200, Eli Segal wrote: > Is there a way to install OpenOffice with apt-get ??? > Yes, but only OO without BiDi support, and I assume that's not what you want. Can the IGLU administrators make OO apt-gettable please? Regards, Yotam R

OO with apt-get ?

2002-05-22 Thread Eli Segal
Is there a way to install OpenOffice with apt-get ???   Eli  

Re: apt-get update with ftp.tau.ac.il ?

1999-09-23 Thread Ilya Tsindlekht
Omer wrote: > > :BTW: What other Israeli sites keep up to date mirrors of debian ? > > once, there was ftp.il.debian.org, hosted by www.bard.org.il . No there is > no such thing. Full mirror of debian ftp is huge, and requires enormous > bandwidth, so I wasn't allowed to create such a mirror i

Re: apt-get update with ftp.tau.ac.il ?

1999-09-21 Thread roih
Try www.tls.co.il/debian. --- Roi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get update with ftp.tau.ac.il ?

1999-09-21 Thread Omer
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, shaul wrote: :[04:24:27 apt]# apt-get update :Err ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il potato/main Packages :Protocol corruption ftp.tau.ac.il was not ready to accept anonymous logins in last few days. I suppose this is the reason. :BTW: What other Israeli sites keep up to date mirrors of

apt-get update with ftp.tau.ac.il ?

1999-09-21 Thread shaul
Can you advise about using apt-get with ftp.tau.ac.il ? apt-get update seems to work fine with the following settings: [04:08:40 apt]# cat sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US

apt-get update with ftp.tau.ac.il ?

1999-09-20 Thread shaul
Can you advise about using apt-get with ftp.tau.ac.il ? apt-get update seems to work fine with the following settings: [04:08:40 apt]# cat sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US