On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages
> through a proxy server whenever required.
>
> However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
> no luck...
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:37:14PM -0400, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-
> image-2.6.18-5-amd64_2.6.18 .dfsg.1-13etch4_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
> failed
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:19:01PM +0800, Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
>> The kernel should handle cleaning up application memory (or "permanently
>> caching" any memory that wasn't de-allocated at the iceweasel/iceape
>> crashes. Once cached, if never called for again they'l
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:56:45PM -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
>
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:48:40PM -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
>> heard to say:
>>> Nat
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:48:40PM -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>> Perhaps you
>> might argue that the software should handle it perfectly, but at that
>> level of insanity, I certainly don't care anymore... as one user to
>> another -- since I'm no
The Debian menu entry for eboard should be in Games/Board.
Daniel
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Greetings:
> I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of
> etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package
> and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to
> us
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:48:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ; but then, when I tried to install libopensync-plugin-syncml with:
>
> # apt-get install libopensync-plugin-syncml
>
> , I got error:
>
> The following
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:04:52PM -0300, loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> Em Qui, 2007-10-04 às 15:32 -0700, David Brodbeck escreveu:
> > I find that LVM-over-RAID is not autodetected by most rescue disks.
> > It's necessary to first bring up the RAID array manually with mdadm,
>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:19:03PM -0700, qing zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Is there a way that I can exclude some package version in package
> dependency list. I understand that the current relationships between
> packages are: <<, <=, =, >= and >> for strictly earlier, earlier o
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:05AM -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
> > Hi Martin!
> >
> > Martin Waller wrote:
> > > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > > having used
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0300, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> But if I start the UI, it reports:
>
> #Broken: 89 Will free 344MB of disk space DL Size: 14.0 MB
>
> and
> [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 28 removals, 47 keeps
> e: Examine !: Apply .: Next
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:35:22AM -0500, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> What can I put into the .aptituderc file to adjust aptitude so the
> recommended downloads and suggested downloads get downloaded with an
> aptitude dist-upgrade?
Because of the design of apt, it's
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Looks like a mistake to me. I'd think suggesting vnc-server, or maybe
> > (say) "tightvncserver | vnc-server", would be just fine. OTOH,
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I haven't seen any place where aptitude shows any of that
> information. It just shows me a warning such as:
>
> WARNING: This version of acpid is from an untrusted source!
>Installing th
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:31:02AM -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:44:47PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > xtightvncviewer suggests tightvncserver, and vnc-java suggests
> > vncserver.
>
> But isn't that a m
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:37:19PM -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Here's a transcript:
>
> NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java
> xtightvncviewer
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state inform
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:09:12PM -, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> So I'm curious. I thought with Stable (Etch at the moment) the only
> updates automatically installed are security updates. And when I
> search the changelog, it does not mention Vim:
>
> http://ft
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:02:41PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > dpkg performs no key checking, at least on packages in the Debian
> > archive. There was some experimental code to stick e
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:36:54PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> If you can't pull the data with ftp or somethin, what about using lynx?
> Text browsers don't have to render. Download the text and save it to a
> file. Or if its already being viewed, 'Print' it
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will
> have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I
> enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick s
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is
> that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid
> 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- o
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Doug is absolutely correct. Putting a 30MB file into the clipboard
> is going to is a lot of resources.
It'll use a lot of resources -- but if I understood the OP correctly,
the resources weren't bein
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> What about:
> sudo (command_1 | command_2)
Won't work -- the ()s are shell metacharacters, and sudo knows
nothing about them. What you would need to do this with j
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:37:51AM +, Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> >> But How do you use the key(s) listed in "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg" to
> >> authenticate the individual installed packages.
> >
> > Oh, dpkg automatically checks it for you when you use apt-get/aptitude
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:10:38PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is,
> you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard
> to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:23:07AM -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I've also seen this "enable encryption" option on my wireless keyboard at
> home.
>
> I think the more important question for the original poster is really --
> how far away do you think your keyboard ca
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> Tod Detre wrote:
> A less drastic approach, which would not risk breaking anything, would be
> "apt-get install --reinstall $pkg" in place of the last two steps. I don't
> know if it would accomplish the sam
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> steef wrote:
> - From his website:
> > Key people from Debian are paid for their work on Debian (see here)
> > and for this reason do no longer represent community interests but
> > the commercial
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:23:16PM +0100, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on
> host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except
> whitelisted mail to spamd on another server - host2. hos
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Hi you all,
>
> I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to
> receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense.
>
> thanx in advance
The Fujitsu P7120 wo
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:20:58PM +0100, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> "Any reason you were doing this through dselect rather than apt-get or
> aptitude?"
>
> How do I get a list of packages installed/availbale through the apt
> interface? If I can I will happily move on
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager,
> > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2)
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:16:49PM +, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:39:17 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
> >
> > Holding the various
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:44:28PM +, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common,
tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised
if
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I notice that aptitude isn't actually installing apache -- it looks
> >like something is dragging in libapache-mod-php4, which d
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:19:34PM +, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:
>
> > > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recomme
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #
> aptitude install horde3
> [...]
> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
> apache-common f
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:14:54AM -0400, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I'll second the suggestion of xfig. I used it extensively when I was
> writing papers and slides in LaTeX. The commandline tools that go along
> with it (particularly fig2dev and pstoedit) make it ver
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:57:04PM -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory
>> stick. Here's the setup...
>> CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick
>
> Ok, I realize that it mounts when connected dir
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:12:05PM -0500, "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>> The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling.
>
> Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just
> wa
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
> combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there
> a program available that will provide instant me
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:55:18PM -0400, "Lic. Orestes leal" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > The only platform-specific parts are 1) getting a GL surface on the screen,
> > and 2) installing the libraries/headers. For (1) you just use GLUT or Qt
> > (or another cross-platform windowing
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps
> losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the
> terminal from which it was started. One sug
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:31:28PM -0400, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I actually keep wondering why apt-get and aptitude are not merged into one
> (it looks like it good almost be done by just renaming aptitude to apt-get).
Mainly because aptitude is not apt-get. I'm
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Next, grep supports what most would now call a subset of full regular
> expression syntax. This does not include parenthesis or alternation. So
> when you put a backslash in front of the pipe symbol, '
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:05:06AM -0400, "Roberto C. Sánchez" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure.
> > What cli and/or web software can I
Several people have reported that their problems go away if they
remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be
interested to know if you see the same behavior.
Daniel
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Zach wrote:
> I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive.
> I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple
> upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you trie
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
> trick, the "why/why-not" command:
>
> $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins
> i kde-extras Recommends digikam
> p digikam
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:16PM -0400, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >>When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove
> >>these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been p
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for replacing
> configuration files during an upgrade? Any one
> know how to automate the answers. Here is an example
These prompts are issued b
> When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove
> these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off
> upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer
> versions of packages):
> dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1]
> libssp0
Looks to me
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:39:11AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Note that it may be a few days before a new aptitude is uploaded: the
> new apt interacts badly with aptitude and I need to track down why.
Well, that was a long few days.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:55:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> I understand how aptitude handles automatically installed packages.
> Since I have always used aptitude on this box my question, I suppose, is
> why is libneon26 still insta
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]
> i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]
>
> I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and
> files.
>
> When I now run: apt-get insta
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Torok Balint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Thank you everyone for the help I received.
>
> I have tried to install/purge the same applications with
> aptitude on another computer and all went well. I conclude
> that the problem came into existan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> Is there any chance to find out in which package the start-stop-daemon
> is w/o reinstalling the whole debian distribution and hopeing that it
> will be installed automatically?
If I understand your question,
There are two possibilities:
(1) you still have a package installed that owns those files. This
is likely the case for the stuff under /usr/share/doc.
You can find out which packages have installed a file with
dpkg -S (filename).
(2) the package is buggy and doesn't clea
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:58:18AM -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I am administering (or attempting to, anyway) a Debian install
> on a machine a few years old. Debian is not recognizing the
> sound card for some reason. I do hear a "pop" during boot, so
> I suppose th
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:23:32AM -0400, Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there's an easy way, when using
> `apt-get upgrade`, to get around the pop-up configuration screens that occur
> with some updates. One example of this is wit
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:48:31PM +0200, tombs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the fuse-utils package. This might mean
> you need to manually fix this package.
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
If you're using aptitude 0.4.4-4 (which y
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:09:31PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> > One thing you could try would be something like this as root:
> >
> > strace -o /tmp/ls.strace -f su - "Broken" -c ls
> >
> > and then send ls.strace here.
> >
>
> # strace -o ls.strace -f su
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > s. keeling writes:
> > > Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
> > > understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > > s. keeling wrote:
> > > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:15:07PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> > (I suspect it's more likely an environment
> > variable -- the packaging system shouldn't mess with permissions on these
> > directores -- but it would be nice to rule out any weirdness like that)
>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:20:15AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> > that its for shure an acces denied, try creating a new user and do the same
> > and chek
> > if the problem persist, if it does, then this might be a bug.
>
> I created a new user account and this
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:57:57PM -0300, Altamir Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I got in troubles when I tried to update debian this week. I use dselect
> to do that. When I used "dselect install", it uninstall several gnome
> packages.
Are you running stable, testing, or unsta
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:53:40PM +, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Larry Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > So! If you want lprng... - after a fresh install of linux:
> > 1) Stop the cups processes:
> > for i in /etc/init.d/cups*; do; $i stop; done
> > 2) Edit the init
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> However, aptitude just won't forget about the original
> CD-ROMs. This is my current sources.list:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list-
> #
>
> Security Updates
> deb cdrom:[Debian GN
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:25:39PM +0100, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Thank you all for you replies.
> This was the answer I was look for since I prefer to use the command
> line, although running aptitude from an unprivileged user(mentioned by
> Johannes) was also a
Note that it may be a few days before a new aptitude is uploaded: the
new apt interacts badly with aptitude and I need to track down why.
Daniel
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:03:59AM -0500, "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On 06/13/2007 03:17 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 21:34:28 -0500, Mumia W wrote:
> >>I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will
> >>disappear after I've removed the CDROM
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Hello,
>Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when
> install or remove package.
I'm guessing you're running installs from the command line? You
want to pass -P or set the o
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> as of today i get the following error when running "aptitude update",
> which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of "aptitude update" and
> quite irritating.
>
> Could somebody please shed some light
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for?
Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm. It can't solve all
possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm d
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:08:09AM +, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Hi,
>
> On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0,
> after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:16:54PM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> >On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> >> this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode,
> >and
> >> it gets all the w
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and
> it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take
> keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:58:01AM +0200, jochen kaechelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> ich hab hier eine Etch am Laufen und habe nurn folgendes
> Problem:
>
> Ich habe apt-listchanges so konfiguriert:
>
> [apt]
> frontend=mail
> email_address=root
> confirm=0
> save_seen=/var/lib/apt
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I've been getting the following error when i try to:
> aptitude upgrade
>
> E: Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.5-9_all.deb:
> MD5Sum mismatch
>
> I ge
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process
> itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not
> bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the ke
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what:
>
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep unstable
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> $ sudo apt-ge
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:21:10PM +0200, dcorking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Since "Etch" became "stable" on April 8, is it possible that aptitude
> updated many packages from Sarge to Etch for Jan?
It's possible.
> The first time I read /usr/share/doc/packages/aptitude/README,
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:34:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> 3.install aptitude-doc and read it.
Just to forestall any problems: there is no aptitude-doc. He means
aptitude-doc-en (assuming English is your native language). :-)
Daniel
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude
> dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install
> texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom
>
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:50:38AM -0700, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >was heard to say:
> >>On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty &
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:44:09PM +0100, Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once
> again not certain how to check.
Type "cat /etc/resolv.conf".
> Ping was by IP address.
Can you ping by hostname? e.g., ping w
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:08:35AM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Could you quote what aptitude actually output?
>
> debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable
> Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in cors
I've been pretty happy with the desktop system I bought from system76.
(that's http://www.system76.com) Their computers come with Ubuntu
installed, but Debian runs just fine too. The only sticking points are
that hibernation doesn't work, and it uses an NVidia card (which I'm
ambivalent about;
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until
> > either sync or umount. Yes, I wait.
>
> Yes, I also wait. Becau
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package.
> This
> might mean you need to manually fix this package.
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
What do "apt-
I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix
this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug
could download it and let me know whether it works for them.
Thanks,
Daniel
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On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:09:44AM +, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Hi Daniel:
> I ran `apt-get remove network-manager' and rebooted, but the problem
> persists. Any other ideas?
> thanks
> tim
No more ideas about specific things that could be wrong.
I wo
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared
> to configure properly - software installation from mirror
> went without a problem
>
> The problem (sort of) goes like this:
> I can boot the
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages
> > which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than
> > apt
Does anyone have a package installation command that will reproduce
this on up-to-date unstable? I think I may have a fix, but through
various stupidities I lost my test case and can't confirm it.
Thanks,
Daniel
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
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> Tom Grove wrote:
> > Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody
> > days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few y
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:50:37AM +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> >
> > Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove
> > 150+ "unused" packages, including Gn
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:33:27AM +, Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Anyone got any ideas? Is this something broken my end, or a broken package?
It's an aptitude bug.
Daniel
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