Barry wrote:
On Friday 23 April 2004 01:22, Nate Duehr wrote:
Jes?s Roncero Franco wrote:
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Just because the userbase tends to use apt-get quite a bit, doesn't mean
it's intelligent enough to do everything, nor has it ever been. I
remember seeing notes from the apt-get develo
>> Just because the userbase tends to use apt-get quite a bit, doesn't mean
>> it's intelligent enough to do everything, nor has it ever been. I
>> remember seeing notes from the apt-get developers warning against its
>> use as a generic tool long ago.
>>
>> The warnings about how it does its pack
On Friday 23 April 2004 01:22, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
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> Just because the userbase tends to use apt-get quite a bit, doesn't mean
> it's intelligent enough to do everything, nor has it ever been. I
> remember seeing notes from the apt-get developers warning agai
Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
Ok, I'd remake my question. If today's preferred method of installing and
upgrading software in debian is apt-get, and it has some problems, why is
this the first time I heard of it? I mean, from a user perspective, one that
reads many debian related mailing lists, ap
El Miércoles, 21 de Abril de 2004 00:08, Florian Ernst escribió:
> a) apt-get is easily explainable, i.e. telling someone to "apt-get
> install " instead of telling to start aptitude / dselect /
Hey! :-) aptitude is really really similar to apt-get in CLI.
In fact, I'm always lost using aptitude'
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:00, Michael Peddemors wrote:
> Korganizer ate my calendar.. (Backup your .ics, actually my fault, anyone
> upgrading should always backup their .kde directory, JUST IN CASE, however
> it still should not have ate it.)
I did a backup, but I think something is wrong with
Hendrik Sattler writes:
> The latter is much, much more informative and better tells me about
> the current situation. aptitude is even wrong here (the lynx package
> is only removed, not purged). From dpkg: rc lynx 2.8.4.1b-1
I have no idea about the interface of all these things. Furthermore,
Jesús Roncero Franco writes:
> Ok, I'd remake my question. If today's preferred method of
> installing and upgrading software in debian is apt-get, and it has
> some problems, why is this the first time I heard of it? I mean,
> from a user perspective, one that reads many debian related mailing
>
Am Tuesday 20 April 2004 23:33 schrieb Dominique Devriese:
[...]
After purging and reinstalling aptitude with apt-get ;), I could make it work
(previously, something was messed up because it wanted to install about 100
new packages without me doing anything).
Maybe you know about one issue with
Hello again!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:18:12PM +0200, Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:56, Florian Ernst wrote:
> > Please see for example the Release Note for Woody at
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading#s-dse
> >lectupgrade and foll
Jesús Roncero Franco writes:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 20:39, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> Yes. Meaning that it needs uninstalling other packages and
>> installing new ones instead.
>>
>> > Additionally, I disagree with you. I do not like
>> > dselect. aptitute may be good but the interface real
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:56, Florian Ernst wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:40:50PM +0200, Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
> > Maybe it is that people is too used to apt-get dist-upgrading quite
> > easily. Why then debian relies on apt-get and not on aptitude :-?
>
> Does Debian?
Wel
Hello!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:40:50PM +0200, Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
> Maybe it is that people is too used to apt-get dist-upgrading quite easily.
> Why then debian relies on apt-get and not on aptitude :-?
Does Debian?
Please see for example the Release Note for Woody at
http://www.deb
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 20:39, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Yes. Meaning that it needs uninstalling other packages and installing
> new ones instead.
>
> > Additionally, I disagree with you. I do not like dselect. aptitute
> > may be good but the interface really sucks
>
> It's not about an interf
Hendrik Sattler writes:
> Am Tuesday 20 April 2004 18:09 schrieb Dominique Devriese:
>> Michael Peddemors writes:
>> > If you notice, I am NOT using unstable, but WOODY.. Again, I am
>> > doing testing of the upgrade, for our clients are going to run
>> > into the same issues.. This is to point
Not to start a flame, but upgrading only KDE from a 3.2.0 to a 3.2.2 would not
be expected to be a major upgrade.. PS, the problem with the OpenOffice
compatability still exists on Woody with 3.2.2, because of the libfreetype..
What apt sources do use for OpenOffice that doens't have these issu
Am Tuesday 20 April 2004 18:09 schrieb Dominique Devriese:
> Michael Peddemors writes:
> > If you notice, I am NOT using unstable, but WOODY.. Again, I am
> > doing testing of the upgrade, for our clients are going to run into
> > the same issues.. This is to point out that there are some
> > dep
Michael Peddemors writes:
> If you notice, I am NOT using unstable, but WOODY.. Again, I am
> doing testing of the upgrade, for our clients are going to run into
> the same issues.. This is to point out that there are some
> dependency problems that prevent an apt-get upgrade, or apt-get
> insta
Hello Michael!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:00:06AM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote:
> On April 20, 2004 01:14 am, you wrote:
> > First of all, apparently you're using "apt-get install" for upgrading
> > packages. This is a bad idea. Use dselect, aptitude, synaptic, these
> > do a much better job a
On Tue April 20 2004 10:00 am, Michael Peddemors wrote:
] Hmm.. THis was the worst KDE upgrade in a long while..
] Had to delete 1/2 of KDE to get the upgrade to work, from KDE 3.2.0 to 3.2.2
I went from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 and lost my bookmarks (and a few other
things, as detailed in a message to
On April 20, 2004 01:14 am, you wrote:
> Michael Peddemors writes:
> > Korganizer ate my calendar.. (Backup your .ics, actually my fault,
> > anyone upgrading should always backup their .kde directory, JUST IN
> > CASE, however it still should not have ate it.)
>
> Can you file a bug report about t
Michael Peddemors writes:
> Korganizer ate my calendar.. (Backup your .ics, actually my fault,
> anyone upgrading should always backup their .kde directory, JUST IN
> CASE, however it still should not have ate it.)
Can you file a bug report about that on bugs.kde.org, so people there
can try to d
Hmm.. THis was the worst KDE upgrade in a long while..
Had to delete 1/2 of KDE to get the upgrade to work, from KDE 3.2.0 to 3.2.2
Korganizer ate my calendar.. (Backup your .ics, actually my fault, anyone
upgrading should always backup their .kde directory, JUST IN CASE, however it
still should
>> afaik:
>> 3.2.2 will be released tomorrow and on the kde.org server woody binary
>> packages will be available, too.
> It's out now - but it comes with XFree 4.3 packages. Anyone know why?
I'm wondering, too. This doesn't look very professional, I have already seen
one first comment of a guy w
Noèl Köthe wrote:
> Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Ian Eure um 22:17:
>> Does anyone have a source for this? 3.2.0 is the latest I've been able to
>> find.
>
> afaik:
> 3.2.2 will be released tomorrow and on the kde.org server woody binary
> packages will be available, too.
>
It's out now - but i
Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Ian Eure um 22:17:
> Does anyone have a source for this? 3.2.0 is the latest I've been able to
> find.
afaik:
3.2.2 will be released tomorrow and on the kde.org server woody binary
packages will be available, too.
--
NoÃl KÃthe
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
s
Does anyone have a source for this? 3.2.0 is the latest I've been able to
find.
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