Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 06/02/2014 13:12, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: (you could use grep -e '^ii') or egrep '^ii', but I think it's not worth the cpu used). You don't need -e to use anchors in the regex. Whilst -e would use more CPU than a plain grep, the anchor would likely reduce the work done (lines can be matched

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 06/02/2014 13:06, Tino Sino wrote: I wonder, what's the golden way to do this and why? It depends on what you're doing it for. If it's for a script, dpkg-query is a better choice, because you can do --showformat and it does not truncate version strings etc. 'dpkg -l' output is really meant

Re: {a} de installed packages

2013-09-08 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 2013-09-08 om 10:38 schreef Geert Stappers: Op 2013-09-08 om 10:27 schreef Geert Stappers: Hoi, Aptitude laat bij installatie zien welke packages als dependency automatisch naar binnen gehaald worden. De indicator is '{a}'. Voorbeeld: screenshot # aptitude install

Re: {a} de installed packages

2013-09-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 08/09/13 10:58, Geert Stappers wrote: Ik gebruik nu deze (smerige?) truuk: `aptitude search .` Als er iets beter is dan zoeken op een package waar een punt in de beschrijving staat, dan hou ik mij aanbevolen. En eigenlijk ging het niet om automatisch ge-installeerd packages, maar hoe

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 24 apr 13, 08:43:07, green wrote: Following are the commands I use for backup and restore of the package selection. Please note that I have not needed to use these commands for some time. In fact, aptitude-create-state-bundle arrived some time after I implemented this; I have not

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Nooden
On 04/23/2013 09:12 PM, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no command to list

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2013, Lars Nooden wrote: On 04/23/2013 09:12 PM, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread green
Mark Weyer wrote at 2013-04-23 16:12 -0500: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no command to list

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Mark Weyer
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12:44PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i

How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Weyer
The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no command to list this, where in /etc (or whereever

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 17:12, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i A. And if there is no command to list

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
Hi Mark, the following should work, listing only the manually installed packages. aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' -F %p | sed 's/ //g' On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Mark Weyer m...@weyer-zuhause.de wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 17:11, staticsafe wrote: On 4/23/2013 17:12, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:12:44 +0200 Mark Weyer m...@weyer-zuhause.de wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. snip aptitude search '~i!~M' -- EMACS is my operating system

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12:44PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In aptitude that would be packages marked as i but not as i

Holding non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread The Wanderer
Is there any way to tell apt to hold a particular package in a non-installed state? Having previously encountered problems due to having tried to dist-upgrade across a long gap, I perform a dist-upgrade to testing on the order of weekly. When apt-listbugs reports a bug which is important enough

Re: Holding non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: Is there any way to tell apt to hold a particular package in a non-installed state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info. However for your case it might be easier to find

Re: Holding non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/03/2012 02:36 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: Is there any way to tell apt to hold a particular package in a non-installed state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info.

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 20 iun 12, 20:55:09, Artifex Maximus wrote: I think the continuous upgrade process from the early stage of Wheezy left some unneeded packages. This is normal as I started early just want to clean out my system. Maybe I am wrong on base idea but would like to check and look for some

dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! My Wheezy was installed on a very early stage any I would like to compare packages against a fresh installation to see what is different or changed. Probably nothing but would like to verify. Therefore I would like to make a dependency tree (graph) on installed packages under Wheezy

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Keith McKenzie
apt-cache dump | grep Package: apt-cache dump | grep Version: Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names versions. Maybe that will get what you want in a roundabout way. :-) -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote: apt-cache dump | grep Package: apt-cache dump | grep Version: Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names versions. Maybe that will get what you want in a roundabout way.  :-) Thank you. Unfortunately

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
to make a dependency tree (graph) on installed packages under Wheezy for both (my older and a fresh) installation. On the two dependency trees I am able to find differences between them because packages by packages compare is not enough I think. I have made some google and found that debtree

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Artifex Maximus [2012-06-20 12:08:39 +0200] wrote: debtree needs a package name for graph but I need all my installed packages (no --all or asterisk parameter) not just some and apt-cache makes tree from all packages Debian has even I specify the parameter --installed. I am stuck. I may have

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Artifex, Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote: Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names versions. # dpkg --list | wc -l 2481 Why don’t you use the output of dpkg -l? Also check man 1

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
or changed. Probably nothing but would like to verify. Therefore I would like to make a dependency tree (graph) on installed packages under Wheezy for both (my older and a fresh) installation. On the two dependency trees I am able to find differences between them because packages by packages compare

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: Artifex Maximus [2012-06-20 12:08:39 +0200] wrote: debtree needs a package name for graph but I need all my installed packages (no --all or asterisk parameter) not just some and apt-cache makes tree from all packages Debian

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
. # dpkg --list | wc -l 2481 Why don’t you use the output of dpkg -l? Also check man 1 dpkg-query. Thank you. dpkg -l writes out all installed packages but not the relations between them. I did similar comparison between systems but seeing the differences in a tree makes this process easier because I

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Artifex, Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. dpkg -l writes out all installed packages but not the relations between them. I did similar comparison between systems but seeing the differences in a tree makes this process easier because I can cut leafs if I know

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

2011-03-29 Thread James Robertson
Please post the full output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' here, otherwise we can only guess. I waited a few days and did an apt-get update and dist-upgrade and the manually installed packages that were previously a problem were no longer going to be removed. So the problem is solved but I do

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

2011-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
to manual but it keeps wanting to remove it during dist-upgrade. How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages? Please post the full output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' here, otherwise we can only guess. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

2011-03-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: JR I am running Sid. JR while doing a dist-upgrade apt-get wants to remove a number of packages that JR are manually installed. JR How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages? i've made apt-get ignore packages

apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

2011-03-23 Thread James Robertson
-upgrade. How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages?

Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
it in and read it as a data drive. So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? Thank you! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Camaleón
on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? /var/lib/dpkg/status should contain information on the installed packages, if the file is present. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread David Sastre
can I find the list of installed packages? You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: # dpkg -l list.of.packages.txt The result is a much smaller file: # dpkg -l list # ll list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297969 ene 8 18:39 list # ll

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
it in and read it as a data drive. So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: # dpkg -l list.of.packages.txt The result is a much smaller file: # dpkg -l list

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Avi Greenbury
David Sastre wrote: You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so: dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections packagelist.txt I'd imagine you could just pipe that into

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
on the old PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive. So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: # dpkg -l list.of.packages.txt

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive. So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? Thank you! Hal

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:38:45, Avi Greenbury wrote: David Sastre wrote: You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so: dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: Thank you, everyone, for the answers.  This will make restoring this go faster. You can also use aptitude search -F '%p' '?installed' or aptitude search -F '%p' '?installed' pkgs-installed and aptitude -F '%p' search

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Hal Vaughan wrote: Without doing a chroot (while I know the mobo on the old system crashed, I'm beginning to suspect drive/OS issues), I could use a few utils like grep and awk to change a list from /var/lib/dpkg/status if I needed to, couldn't I? Try this: grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
$ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W E: Can't search for On both Lenny and Kubuntu 10.10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
Chance Platt wrote: deborphan --all-packages Thanks that definitely answer my need, especially called this way: deborphan --all-packages | sort -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
aptitude search '~i!~M' aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' I guess this lists the one not automatically installed, but that's something quite different With dpkg such a list can be generated with for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1) do [ -z $(grep -E Depends.* $x(

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread green
Loris Boillet wrote at 2010-10-13 12:16 -0600: $ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W E: Can't search for Oops. Try M instead of W. This is shorthand for ?installed!?automatic as in another post. $ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~M signature.asc Description:

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With dpkg such a list can be generated with for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1) do [ -z $(grep -E Depends.* $x( |,|$) /var/lib/dpkg/status) ] echo $x done -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Loris Boillet
Hi, Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do it for instance. Debian systems typically having hundreds

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Chance Platt
Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do it for instance. deborphan --all-packages

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chance Platt wrote: Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do it for instance

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:21:58 +0200, Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Mmmm, I've still not found a package that does not depend on another package (there are always basic library

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Chance Platt
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chance Platt wrote: Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chance Platt wrote: Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. deborphan --all

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread green
Loris Boillet wrote at 2010-10-11 14:21 -0600: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do it for instance

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, aptitude search '~i!~M' aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' http://algebraicthunk.net

To find out the installed packages repo section.

2010-05-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib, non-free) one or more packages come from? For example, I want to know if I have the packages installed from, say Testing / contrib - how I can do this?

Re: To find out the installed packages repo section.

2010-05-31 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:21:57PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib, non-free) one or more packages come from? For example, I want to know if I have the packages installed

Re: To find out the installed packages repo section.

2010-05-31 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:21 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib, non-free) one or more packages come from? Certainly - Brought to me by #d's dpkg I now have the following

Re: To find out the installed packages repo section.

2010-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
from, say Testing / contrib - how I can do this? Per package you can use 'apt-cache policy package'. If you want to find all installed packages from contrib or non-free look at aptitude's patterns in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users

Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Alex Huth
Hi! I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. What i have found so far by our friend google: aptitude search ?installed(?not(?automatic)) But this does not what i mean, because it also

Re: Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090819090118.gb7...@borusse.tmr.net, Alex Huth wrote: I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. What i have found so far by our friend google: aptitude search ?installed(?not(?automatic

Re: Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Aug.09, 10:41:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090819090118.gb7...@borusse.tmr.net, Alex Huth wrote: I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. What i have found so far

Re: how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Jordan
flomine, Thu Jun 04 2009 01:43:32 GMT+0200 (CEST): Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which retrieves bug reports on all packages present in /var/cache/apt/arhives

Re: how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-04 Thread flomine
Peter Jordan a écrit : flomine, Thu Jun 04 2009 01:43:32 GMT+0200 (CEST): Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which retrieves bug reports on all packages present

Re: how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-04 Thread flomine
Peter Jordan a écrit : flomine, Thu Jun 04 2009 01:43:32 GMT+0200 (CEST): Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which retrieves bug reports on all packages present

Re: how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a27a34f.1010...@gmail.com, flomine wrote: Peter Jordan a écrit : flomine, Thu Jun 04 2009 01:43:32 GMT+0200 (CEST): Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which

Re: how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-04 Thread flomine
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : flomine wrote: Peter Jordan a écrit : flomine, Thu Jun 04 2009 01:43:32 GMT+0200 (CEST): Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script

how to retrieve bug reports for all installed packages ?

2009-06-03 Thread flomine
Hi list, I am using SID and I ask myself if there is a script or something to list all critical bugs from all installed packages. Maybe a script using apt-listbugs which retrieves bug reports on all packages present in /var/cache/apt/arhives ? Or using the script smxi? The purpose

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: 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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-12 Thread MinJue Shi
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: 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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:40:25AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. I noticed your sig did not render correctly in my mailer. The deliniter for a sig is --spacereturn not --return So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-06 Thread Thorny
[Lisi] The reason that there is currently a little bit of confusion on websites is that the shunt Squeeze - testing, Lenny - stable, Etch - old stable and Sarge - somewhere-off-the-cliff only happened less than 3 weeks ago on 14th February. The websites are being updated in roughly order of

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:57:48 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: I had delayed upgrading to Debian 5.0, as people appear to still have problems with upgrading to Debian 5.0, so I thought that it would be better to wait until things had settled, with Debian 5.0, perhaps, when release 2 appears, or

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: 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:

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Thorny
So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Being a fan of Adams myself, I gave a bit of thought to your sig lines. You may want to investigate Chapter 3 from the Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote: So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Being a fan of Adams myself, I gave a bit of thought to your sig lines. You may want to investigate Chapter 3 from the Debian FAQ:

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:40:25 Bret Busby wrote: I am hesitant about trying to make changes to this system, which includes being wary of upgrading to Debian 5.0, until the ripples on the list about Debian 5.0, have settled. There is no need to change at all if you are not happy to do so.

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:57:48 Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby b...@busby.net was heard to say: That's the package from etch, which is now obsolete. I think he meant the package was obsolete, which is not

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:57:18 Bret Busby wrote: Perhaps, it is due to the categorizing of the games, within the KDE applications menu, and it was not sure which subcategory of Games, was applicable? Possibly - but I have always understood that its function is specifically to look for

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:57:18 Bret Busby wrote: Perhaps, it is due to the categorizing of the games, within the KDE applications menu, and it was not sure which subcategory of Games, was applicable? Possibly - but I have always understood that its

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
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.

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: 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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: From history in Synaptic; Commit Log for Mon Mar 2 13:41:22 2009 Installed the following packages: fgfs-base (0.9.10-1) flightgear (0.9.10-2) freeglut3 (2.4.0-5) libalut0 (1.0.1-1) libopenal0a (1:0.0.8-4) plib1.8.4c2

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Eric Gerlach wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:40:51 -0500 From: Eric Gerlach egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Adding installed packages to menu Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:41:22 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: 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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Thorny
Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy. As I mentioned previously, not every sys

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
of applications), have the same developers/maintainers, for all distributions, with possibly different developers working on different version numbers of the applications? Perhaps, a convenient solution, to whether newly installed packages should be automatically added to the Applicatopons menu

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Thorny
one ;) ). The Kubuntu derivative of Ubuntu is blue. :-) Of course, it doesn't have Gnome by default. Perhaps, a convenient solution, to whether newly installed packages should be automatically added to the Applicatopons menu hierarchy, would be that, when an extra package is installed

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Thorny
Yes; each workstation installation that we have, whilst it has more than one user account, is used by only one person at a time, and is primarily a single-user system (but, I really don't like the pseudo thingy that Ubuntu uses, rather than having a root account. I much prefer having a root

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
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

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote: it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications and pick Edit Menus, and choose whether or not various menu items appear. In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things that I want added to the menu, and click

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote: it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications and pick Edit Menus, and choose whether or not various menu items appear. In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things that

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.) Lisi GDM 2.16.4-1 is the GNOME

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 March 2009 10:16:58 Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Which version of which desktop environment

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that helps. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the packages to the menu, and, in the

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