Re: Cant get kernel-package!
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: when I use dselect to try and get kernel-package, i get into an infinite loop with dependencies on packages perl and libc5. I + them and they get *, but when I enter, I go back to dependencies and there they are again, still showing *! I X'd back and tried again from start, chose ftp, looked at packages, kernel-package was STILL selected, and I STILL got into the same boat when i tried to continue. Trying to purge those two packages was the bright idea I had, but I soon realized I would have to remove most of my system once the dependencies were ruled out :( I'm trying again to see if I can get kernel-package and it's 3 dependencies (the source and that other thing...) then I Q'd on the perl... *sigh* Now it's downloading all kinds of packages I didn't ask for, cron3.0, perl5.003, dpkg1.4, etc... I know it is probably just that I was not used to dselect, but I have had this type thing happen quite a bit myself. Would it make sense to add an option to dselect which allows you to list out all of the pending installations/removals of packages before actually going through the process. I don't have this happen as much anymore, but I sure did in the beginning... Scott S. What did I screw up, and is there some way to globally reset dselect, as I believe I have done something to really confuse it :( Thanks for any help.. I'll keep working on this end :) Regards, Kendrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cant get kernel-package!
Hi, I too also ran into this loop as described below. Currently, I can't get any more packages selected because I have yet to find a clean exit out of the dependency loop. I didn't seem to have any problems until I downloaded the new package lists. I think I saw a reference in the debian-announce list that atleast one of the files had been revised. could this be the problem? On what may be a related question, I noticed that dselect does not recognize that you have a higher version of Tk installed, and so requires that you install an older version to get some software to run. It would seem that it should be checking to see that a newer version is already installed and so not require the older as well. Is this indicating that: a) dselect does not check relative version numbers on packages like Tk where the version is attached to the name or b) this feature is not working correctly? Warren Overholt On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: when I use dselect to try and get kernel-package, i get into an infinite loop with dependencies on packages perl and libc5. I + them and they get *, but when I enter, I go back to dependencies and there they are again, still showing *! I X'd back and tried again from start, chose ftp, looked at packages, kernel-package was STILL selected, and I STILL got into the same boat when i tried to continue. Trying to purge those two packages was the bright idea I had, but I soon realized I would have to remove most of my system once the dependencies were ruled out :( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
