Re: [SLUG] apt-get question
From John Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6 Feb 2004: Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm new to debian - actually Knoppix on a hard disk. Added an internet source to sources.list: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib apt-get update The command apt-get update looks at all the packages installed on your hard disk, and checks to see if there are upgrades to any of them in whatever distribution is specified in your sources.list. In your case this is the unstable distribution, which as you've found contains a large number of updates. If you now issue the command apt-get -u upgrade Shouldn't he use apt-get dist-upgrade for the first time? (see apt-get's manual). ___ The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] apt-get question
Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm new to debian - actually Knoppix on a hard disk. Added an internet source to sources.list: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib apt-get update The command apt-get update looks at all the packages installed on your hard disk, and checks to see if there are upgrades to any of them in whatever distribution is specified in your sources.list. In your case this is the unstable distribution, which as you've found contains a large number of updates. If you now issue the command apt-get -u upgrade you will see a list of all the packages that could be upgraded. Do not be alarmed, because at the end of this list, you will be asked Do you want to continue? Answer No. John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] apt-get question
I'm new to debian - actually Knoppix on a hard disk. The sources.list was just the woody 3.0r2 cdroms. I installed Sylpheed from those disks since that is the email client of choice for my wife. I wanted to upgrade to a later version of Sylpheed. Added an internet source to sources.list: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib apt-get update apt-get install sylpheed produced a list of packages to download: over 28mb. Too much for my dial-up connection this morning. Downloaded the latest .tar.bz2 file, 2+mb ./configure, make, make install worked a treat. My question: Why did apt-get think I needed so much additional material? Is there some different command I should use? etc, etc, etc. Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] apt-get question
Hey I have the same question as Mike Lake but i can't see the answer for him: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2001/April/msg00732.html THanks, Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] apt-get question
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said: Hey I have the same question as Mike Lake but i can't see the answer for him: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2001/April/msg00732.html This is 'cause no-one answered it ;) Mike Lake wrote: The percent will rapidly go from 0 to 99% as it downloads info but then after it gets to 99% it will wait for some time. Mostly it's this security site at debian but also for anything at mirror.aarnet I don't know the answer, but I can guess: s.d.o is (was) under a high load, so it's probably timing out. I get similar results when I'm upgrading thru apt-proxy, it seems to never want to give out the last 1% of each file, but upon restart, everything finishes. So, it *might* be a timeout problem -- it certainly was for me with s.d.o, and seems to be when using apt-proxy -- but I can't say for sure. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Balial This port may thing it's fortified, butt I seem to be mounting a pretty good assault -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
