Re: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

2009-09-25 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Ernesto Domato wrote: Hi, I like the idea of the ia32-* packages managed by the ia32-apt-get package till multiarch is ready but I found that the amount of packages to be upgraded differs from aptitude to ia32-aptitude. As for today for example, I have 195 packages to upgrade using aptitude but

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: I thought 'ia32-apt-get' was removed by accident, and you were merely waiting for a sponsor to get it added back. Was it actually removed intentionally? It appears that way. You can read about it on Bug#535645 and the

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:15:23AM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: So, please put it back, at least to experimental. Have a nice weekend Hans-J. Ullrich I agree, I vote for ia32-apt-get Norv I agree to Add me to the list of supporters! Whatever difficulties it was

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-08-08 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alex Samad wrote: Using only ia32-apt-get for all things is recommended to avoid unexpected results. But if you forget then the system won't blow up. It is not dangerous. So just for clarity, once I have installed ia32-apt-get, I should only use ia32-apt-get and not apt-get. I presume

Re: Q about ia32-apt-get

2009-07-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: Hi Seems like there has been some traffic about ia32-apt-get, just wondering if this is the new way forward instead of ia32-libs is there any must read articles about ia32-apt-get ? Alex That remains to be seen. Some people

Re: Big problem: libgcc1 seems to crash system

2009-05-02 Thread Dave Witbrodt
since a few days I have trouble, to get any windowmanager started, and some other very important applications crash (for example mysqld). It only happened to me today, when I updated Sid. The system, I am running is debian-amd64/sid (0unstable) with full updates. At last, this si the

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alan Ianson wrote: It would appear that it requries the nspluginwrapper to work. This is new ground for me. I don't suppose that I could pull the deb and install it with dpkg, have it appear in aptitude as locally installed/obsolete and have it work? Or does it rely on newer versions of libs