On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:48:25PM -0400, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com
was heard to say:
First of all, why does full-upgrade say and 3 not upgraded when
there seem to be only two un-upgradable packages?
I wonder if you have holds set on the other three.
Daniel
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:59:39AM +0300, Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm was
heard to say:
Then comes the 3rd one:
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.
This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
Does
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18:32AM +, David Corking li...@dcorking.com
was heard to say:
Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude
installation that is crashing.
I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but...
As far as I can tell, the trouble began when an
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:12:24PM +, David Corking li...@dcorking.com
was heard to say:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but...
...do you mean etch or lenny?
Yes - I mean etch (4.0). I upgraded that server
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:31:39AM +, Nuno Magalhães
nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt was heard to say:
I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just
click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or
computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:26:39PM -0600, will trillich w...@serensoft.com
was heard to say:
Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts:
We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any
ideas would be welcome:
Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:46:15AM +, B. Liu bl...@hermes.cam.ac.uk was
heard to say:
I download the aptitude_0.4.11.11-1~lenny1_amd64.deb package, using dpkg to
install, it hangs as well. My machines is dell poweredge 1950 64-bit Quad
core.
What's the output if you run strace dpkg
n Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
I did say, in the intitial posting, at the start of the thread, that I
am running Debian 4.0.
Yeah, I think that I just forgot.
I had not realised that it is now regarded as obsolete.
It's regarded as
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under
Applications - Games.
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat
/usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or
directory
Looks like you don't have that file at all.
From
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com
was heard to say:
I have now upgraded aptitude. Issuing the same command I used before
gives me lists of lackages to install/remove/upgrade, as usual, and then
a bunch of packages to remove to resolve conflicts.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:41:06PM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
It would seem logical, given one point of view, but as I mentioned
previously, that's not the behaviour that I desire from a package manager
any more than I want a link to the executable binary automagically
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:37:50AM -0700, Paul E Condon
pecon...@mesanetworks.net was heard to say:
/usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate: `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' is locked (probably
by
+an earlier updatedb)
(snip)
LOCKFILE=/var/lib/mlocate/daily.lock
trap rm -f $LOCKFILE EXIT
(snip)
I
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a
deliberate determination to not have the package management
automatically add the package to the menu, why then would the Ubuntu
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:57:41AM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard
to say:
Just a quick additional note; in the Properties information for the
package, in both installations, with the label of Section, in the Common
tab, both packages have the same value; Games and Amusement.
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:29:30AM -0500, Jacques Dery de...@inforco.com was
heard to say:
I tried running apt-get update and aptitude from the commandline with
the same result. I looked at the man page. I tried a few commands
without result. I am weary going further because I am playing
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:39:49AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote:
which caused aptitude to run for an hour generating thousands of
messages about resolving open/closed/defered dependency
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price
aneurin.pr...@gmail.com was heard to say:
To expand upon this, I believe the OP's situation is some behaviour I've
also seen, which seemed odd until I thought about it and couldn't actually
come up with a better way:
I'm pretty sure
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Dirk noi...@gmail.com was heard to
say:
Everytime I start a game the mouse input is accelerated or just messed up...
I turned xset m 0 0 into a cronjob now that runs the command 30 times
every minute...
I would be astonished if running xset in a
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +, Aneurin Price
aneurin.pr...@gmail.com was heard to say:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price
aneurin.pr...@gmail.com was heard to say:
To expand upon
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:06:48PM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
i386,
CPU AMD K6
I realized later that cat /proc/cpuinfo would also be useful.
What does ldd /usr/bin/apt-get show?
That looks reasonable. I'd suggest filing a bug on apt -- if anyone
reads
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:14:18PM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org writes:
One last idea: does it help at all if you delete /var/lib/apt/*.bin?
I haven't any *.bin files in /var/lib/apt/ directory, just the
following directories
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
How can I find the package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 to download it
and install it with dpkg?
That's a virtual package provided by apt. You need to install the
apt package that matches aptitude (the
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:54:00AM -0800, Michael M. Moore
mich...@writemoore.net was heard to say:
The thing is I was planning on keeping gdm, though I guess I could
switch to xdm, or do without a display manager. But gdm, according
to aptitude, shouldn't require nautilus. It shouldn't
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:49:34AM -0800, Michael M. Moore
mich...@writemoore.net was heard to say:
Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800
Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net wrote:
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
When I try to use apt-get:
apt-get update
I get the same error message:
Illegal instruction
What can I do to solve this problem?
What hardware are you running this on?
What does ldd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:08:40PM -0800, S D sund...@yahoo.com was heard to
say:
Is there a way to get a list of uninstallable packages in aptitude? Something
like aptitude search ... that would return a list of packages that were
installed in the past but are currently uninstallable.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:02PM -0500, Celejar cele...@gmail.com was heard
to say:
Before hitting 'g', I ran down the list of aptitude's
planned actions and lo and behold, aptitude was planning to remove
apt-listbugs, since libgettext-ruby1.8 was to be upgraded to a version
which conflicts
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:49:00PM -0800, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna
el_alexl...@yahoo.com.mx was heard to say:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
It looks like you removed the gnome metapackage, so aptitude
figures you don't want anything in gnome. I would suggest running
aptitude
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30:37PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was
heard to say:
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was
heard to say:
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb
(--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so', which is
also in package libsox-fmt-sndfile
That's
I think one important thing is to learn more than one language. There
are a couple reasons for this, but if I had to give you just one, here
is what it would be:
In most languages I know, there are certain programming techniques
that are considered difficult, advanced or black magic. There
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca
was heard to say:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:27:09PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:58:51AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty
dtu...@vianet.ca was heard to say:
Perhaps your controller program
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:52:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi adrian.l...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
2009/2/8 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org:
Hello list,
I've been banging my head on this one for a while.
I have a need to write some code that can manage job control on a
terminal
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:58:51AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca
was heard to say:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:52:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
2009/2/8 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org:
Hello list,
I've been banging my head on this one for a while.
I have a need
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Mirko Parthey
mirko.part...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de was heard to say:
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 04:58:13PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
directly under my controller process. It's not even that they're
starting as foreground processes: I can start
Hello list,
I've been banging my head on this one for a while.
I have a need to write some code that can manage job control on a
terminal. More specifically, I need to run a single process and stuff
it into the background at will, so that it gets suspended when it tries
to read from the
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:20:27PM +0100, Adrian Chapela
achapela.rexist...@gmail.com was heard to say:
I am looking for that scripts but I couldn't find it.
Ah, they're in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Look for package-name.preinst (etc).
Daniel
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 06:13:11PM +0100, Adrian Chapela
achapela.rexist...@gmail.com was heard to say:
I have tried to install HP OpenIpmi Eth 64 bits .deb and I couldn't do
it because it was failing to rebuild kernel module. Now I want to
uninstall but when I try to uninstall the
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:24:57AM +, Nuno Magalhães
nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt was heard to say:
Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or
'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening?
$ aptitude why mail-transport-agent
i lsb Depends
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 04:30:49PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org
was heard to say:
$ aptitude search '?depends(mail-transport-agent)'
Sorry, that should be
$ aptitude search '?installed?depends(?name(^mail-transport-agent$))'
to restrict it to installed packages
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was
heard to say:
I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window
doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on
the next line it just returns to the beginning of the
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was
heard to say:
Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so
errant process. It might save me a headache in the future!
The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:47:27PM -0500, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com was heard
to say:
This is related to templates in C++ and debugging tools we have in Linux
(I use gdb, is there any other comparable open source tool?).
Not that I know of.
I recall that a few years ago (a few version of gdb
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner michaeldeb...@web.de
was heard to say:
* Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org 28.01.2009
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner
michaeldeb...@web.de was heard to say:
aptitude --purge-unused purge xfce4-terminal
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:37:34AM +1300, Richard Hector
rich...@walnut.gen.nz was heard to say:
Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though
(apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: Don't remove those
unused packages at this time.
Is there an easy way to do
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:33:28PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org
was heard to say:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:59:56AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis
umarz...@gmail.com was heard to say:
For aptitude, is there an equivalence to
# apt-get install -f
Just plain aptitude install
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:58:32PM +, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il
was heard to say:
One use case:
dpkg --install package.deb
Which happens to fail due to a missing dependency, and then:
apt-get install -f
I haven't tried it with aptitude recently but at least in the
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner michaeldeb...@web.de
was heard to say:
* Countable Infinity countableinfin...@gmail.com 23.01.2009
When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do:
aptitude
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:59:56AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
For aptitude, is there an equivalence to
# apt-get install -f
Just plain aptitude install will try to fix any broken dependencies.
Daniel
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:47PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org
was heard to say:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:42:30PM +, Countable Infinity
countableinfin...@gmail.com was heard to say:
When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
libxfce4mcs-manager3
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:42:30PM +, Countable Infinity
countableinfin...@gmail.com was heard to say:
When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do:
aptitude purge xfce4-terminal
it does not remove these libs
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Sander Marechal
s.marec...@jejik.com was heard to say:
If you turn off your gui environment and shutdown from a console, e.g.,
hit Alt-F1 to go to tty1, then enter sudo shutdown -h now or similar,
then I would think you'd see some messages there.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18:22AM +0100, Flo debian...@gmx.at was heard to
say:
Hi,
I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem.
I am running debian testing and I did the following:
aptitude update
aptitude -d upgrade
Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:04:28PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
On Thursday 2009 January 22 15:24:57 Flo wrote:
The second update must have confused it. How could it happen and, more
important, how can I fix this?
Yeah, I'm not sure how that
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:33:53PM -0500, A. F. Cano
a...@shibaya.lonestar.org was heard to say:
I mistyped a command. I intended to type dpkg -S gdb to find what package
contains the debugger in question and instead I typed aptitude -S gdb
From then on, aptitude starts but claims I only have
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:31:03AM +0100, Rainer Kluge rklug...@web.de was
heard to say:
Tamas Hegedus schrieb:
---
2. I tried to reinstall the essential kernel packages what I think might
have been affected by the manual alsa compile.
aptitude reinstall|[removeinstall]
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version
aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)
NCurses version: 5.6
libsigc++ version:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:07:52AM -0500, Paul Gupta wubrga...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the
installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to This password
is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?
I'm
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:44:44AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows
dburr...@debian.org was heard to say:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net
was heard
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:25:59AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
Daniel:
I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't
restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and
then got this:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I
tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file:
r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11
BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on
0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on
*your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it
might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what your
search turns up,
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:58:36PM -0500, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com was heard
to say:
Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting:
Acquire::http::Dl-Limit 7; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
[snip]
I think this will be most useful when aptitude downloads updates
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5
passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile:
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
(more of that)
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org
was heard to say:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net
was heard to say:
I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5
passes without a bug until I ran
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:56:27AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote
about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install':
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril cacad...@yahoo.com
was heard to say:
From: Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com
When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it
doesn't update does anyone know how i can fix it?
Here is the out put in
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester
dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com was heard to say:
GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently.
Ah, sorry. I somehow misread / hallucinated that you got the message
ghc-pkg: command not found. If you had, my fix would have worked
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net was
heard to say:
There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
packages aptitude says:
Depends: libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0)
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me:
dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
(Reading database ... 112547 files and directories
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins erichigg...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:
# apt-get -fm install dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
lzma
The
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:35:56PM -0600, M. Lewis ca...@cajuninc.com was
heard to say:
How can I resolve this dependency?
Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that
linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet:
moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins erichigg...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:
It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?
It looks like it got replaced by the
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving
properly.
When I enter a single command at the command line, like:
aptitude install xawtv
it works fine.
If I just enter
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was
heard to say:
I don't know if I'm up to it, but I'd love to give it a go.
Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my
computer. :-(
If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:35:29AM +, chris n...@cevnet.mine.nu was heard
to say:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:17:57 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
Yet, when I ping debian.org, tcpdump sees 2 (!) DNS A requests to
127.0.0.1:53.
Where are the coming from? How can I tell that source to stop
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:43:33PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was
heard to say:
I'm just not sure why I would have to install kdesktop, kicker, kamera, and
konqueror for an app that syncs with my iPod.
On lenny/unstable, blame amarok-konqsidebar:
dan...@emurlahn:~$ aptitude why
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:29:27PM -0500, A. F. Cano
a...@shibaya.lonestar.org was heard to say:
I know that this is checked somehow as I have been asked which config
file to install or leave alone when upgrading various packages with
aptitude.
I don't know any tool to do this offhand. But
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:51:12PM -0800, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org was
heard to say:
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
Here's what I do (I'm on dialup).
2. backup to plain text:
selections from /etc including fstab, inittab, networks.
output of sfdisk (hard
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:45:50PM +0100, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was
heard to say:
On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote:
This one is recent:
http://www.ducea.com/2008/12/08/howto-upgrade-from-debian-etch-to-lenny/
Seems to be okay, if terse. One caveat, though: it has
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Rob Starling
debian-u...@robstarling.org was heard to say:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
(a) save aptitude search '~i' and aptitude search '~i~A'
(b) run aptitude install -o 'Aptitude::Auto-Install=false
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:18:17AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
On Tuesday 2008 December 16 02:59:01 Alan Chandler wrote:
Now, when I run aptitude interactively (over ssh from another machine),
after it has gone off to perform some action - such as
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:29:09PM +0100, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
seems to do what I want. But I'd like this to be the default package
grouping mechanism and not to enter it every time I use aptitude. Thus
I tried setting
Aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping
{
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:47:50PM +0100, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
on a recent 4.0r5 system I tried setting the aptitude theme but failed.
I added
Aptitude::Theme Dselect;
to ~/.aptitude/config, but aptitude simply didn't show _any_ package
anymore. Same for
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
sense. I wonder why they were dropped from Debian, is it not able to
participate in some of the Fluendo stuff or
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:27:56PM +0545, Bibek Paudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi (cross-posting from Debian-testing list)
Yesterday I upgraded from Etch to Lenny.
1. changed etch to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list
2. # apt-get update
3. # apt-install install dpkg aptitude apt
4.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:23:18AM +, T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep dvd /etc/fstab
/dev/dvd /media/dvd autousers,noauto,exec,ro0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
Is it intentional that one line says users
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:23PM +, T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:01:59 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep dvd /etc/fstab
/dev/dvd /media/dvd autousers,noauto,exec,ro0
0 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of
networking (especially wireless), listing networks
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:31:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Anybody bothered packaging it for Debian?
It's already in the archive. See http://packages.debian.org/wicd.
Daniel
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:22:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 2008-11-19 21:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript?
It seems that elinks does that, though I haven't tried it yet.
w3m doesn't, nor does
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39AM -0600, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes
you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:28:20AM -0600, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
It was yast on Suse after 6.2 that made me switch to Debian because
yast kept doing things I didn't want it to do, and it finally managed
to remove qmail which I had spend a lot of work on to install it and
get
I think I understand.
The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes
you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that
will be made (including ones that were required by your past changes).
If you like it, you confirm that it's OK and aptitude applies
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I am not sure if I will permanently switch to the GTK frontend - I am so
much faster navigating the curses interface - but I am very impressed
with the GTK frontend nonetheless. The overview with the
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:46:06AM +0100, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
NN_il_Confusionario:
I cannot even switch to a tiling window manager because of the line
length issue. My 14, 1024x768 display is just too narrow to have two
windows side-by-side and too wide to have
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:53:36PM -0500, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:29:06PM EST, Kent West wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this
list require that I provide a PGP passphrase ..
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:31:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs
version.
Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one?
Or maybe simply installing the
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