Aptitude woes

[Leonard Green]

I am having a very annoying problem. I have recently started using aptitude, 
love it over dselect, but there is one thing. Whenever i select packages and 
decide that i am going to close the program without installing anything, the 
program starts back up with those previously selected packages, this is fine 
most of the time, but some times i want to clear all selections(in case i 
decide not to install these packages again). I've read the manual, faq, google, 
newsgroups, mailing lists and i have seen nothing the refers to reverting back 
to the state of the program when no packages have been selected. This may be a 
simple keypress, but i can't find it anywhere. Thanks in advance, any 
suggestions are welcomed.
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Re: aptitude woes

[Jimmy Richards]

Hi Again,


Ah. Ok. Maybe it is a package dependency problem then, because when
I do a 'dpkg -p aptitude' I show libncurses5 as a depends for aptitude.
Do you have libncurses5 installed? What does the above command show on
your system? I imagine you probably got it straightened out by now
though.

Jim Richards



> That was my first thought, but libncurses5 was not among the packages
> that I attempted to install.

Re: aptitude woes

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:05:24AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has
> nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or
> dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully
> installed. See if you can figure out how to fix it. dpkg --configure -a
> may or may not help. Anyway, it's highly unlikely that it's aptitude's
> fault the the package installation failed and is most likely an
> installation script problem, like the
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.postinst script for instance.

That was my first thought, but libncurses5 was not among the packages
that I attempted to install.

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Re: aptitude woes

[Jimmy Richards]

Hi,

There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has
nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or
dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully
installed. See if you can figure out how to fix it. dpkg --configure -a
may or may not help. Anyway, it's highly unlikely that it's aptitude's
fault the the package installation failed and is most likely an
installation script problem, like the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.postinst script for instance.


Good Luck,

Jim R.


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:28:22AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> I've just been playing around with aptitude, and when it finished
> downloading a few packages and began installing them, it came up with
> this error:
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on 
> libncurses5
> Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
> Press return to continue.
> Is this a known bug?

aptitude woes

[Rob Weir]

I've just been playing around with aptitude, and when it finished
downloading a few packages and began installing them, it came up with
this error:
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libncurses5
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
Is this a known bug?

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