Removing dependancys
Ok, after spending an hour running dpkg to remove x and everything that depended on it I went back into the docs to see if I had missed any thing, and lo and behold the '-b' option reared it's head. But this just says that it will 'deconfigure' the packages that depend on it. Just what does that mean, will the packages still be there and i'll have to remove them still or does it imply further that they will be removed as well? Also will that act recursively so that multiple levels of depends will be backed out?
Re: debian@home
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Casey Webster wrote: I use dhcp over cable and pump (the default dhcp client) does not fetch an address properly for me. It just sits there for 2 minutes and tells me Operation Failed. I downloaded and installed dhcpcd and tell it dhcpcd -R eth1 and it gets me an address in less than a second. You might try that if you are having problems and are using pump. Great this was exactly my problem, and I switched to dhcpcd and everything works great. However I also gsetup the default configuration of dhcpcd to grab no port and had the configuration happen the 'debian way'. I just put int the following into my /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname @home-host did an ifup eth1 and w/ dhcpcd it workd great. -- Till Later, Jake
debian@home
Has anyone sucessfully gotten the dhcp to work for the ethernet connection to the cable modem. In my area I have a static IP based on my hostname so I'm ok. I tried adding the dhcp connect w/ passing the hostname to my /etc/network/interfaces file, but the client just hung up. Anyone else have luck in this front? -- Till Later, Jake
Holding packages w/o dselect
I've looked through the help screens and man pages of both dpkg and apt-get and I can't find anything that will let me place a package version on hold using these tools. I'd like to avoid using dselect if possible since a) the structure of the categorys is at times unintutive, and b) the last time I wen't int there is screwed up some dependancys and I got stuck in an infinate dependancy conflict resolution. Don't want to go through that again. -- Till Later, Jake
