Re: debugging apt-get

2022-10-12 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 01:10:06 UTC-4, tomas wrote: > Try doing "apt-cache policy Y", that might shed light on this. This reports ``` Y: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.0.3 Version table: 1.0.3 500 500 focal/main amd64 Packages 1.0.1 500 500 focal/main amd64

debugging apt-get

2022-10-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
I'm trying to build a docker image containing a debian package I just created locally. I'm thus running the command `apt-get update && apt-get install -y ./X.deb` from my dockerfile. This command fails with the message ... The following packages have unmet dependencies:  X : Depends: Y (=

how to set up debian from fedora core 2

2004-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
hi there, I'm following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade to install a debian partition on my machine, i.e. I install debootstrap, then run it to prepare a debian partition. Then I chroot into that to configure it. Everything runs

Re: how to set up debian from fedora core 2

2004-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
to follow up on my own mail, someone just pointed out to me that I should set up the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' followed by 'apt-get update' etc. This seems to solve all issues, at least now I'm happily continuing the installation. To whomever it concerns: this should be added to the