--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Eric
Dickner wrote:
... I got all the
packages...the problem is they sit in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory uninstalled,
except
for a few crucial ones that hurt more than they
helped, like
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:35:19PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
Some of the dependency conflicts make no sense. One
that I remember clearly was libstdc++5 needed gcc-3.3
to be configured. The *very next package* was gcc-3.3
that said it needed libstdc++5 to be configured
(WTH?!).
I'm an
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:35:19PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
That was a very powerful command that I will remember
for later use...after I reinstall Woody and start
over. Tons of things were installed that apt-get
dist-upgrade missed but they ended up hosing the
system. I had to boot off
--- Tim Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It works fine when you go from one (former) stable
release to another,
though you would probably have to enter it several
times.
Tim,
I am going from stable to testing so that may be the
problem. My instinct was that iterating through those
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm an idiot, and I gave you bad advice.
dpkg -r /var/cache/apt/archives would work and would
resolve the
dependencies (and would take a long time).
Carl,
It went through everything, and I'm not sure that the
above would do anything differently.
I downloaded hundreds of packages through an online
apt-get dist-upgrade from a fast mirror and then
from the central download site; I assumed that they
were being installed by apt as it went along (it tok a
day and a half by modem) but it seems only bits and
pieces were installed.
The bits and
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
choice I will go back to dpkg -i and laboriously cut
and paste all the warnings and do it by hand.
The following command will reinstall all packages on your system:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall
install
--
--- Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following command will reinstall all packages on
your system:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs
apt-get --reinstall
install
-- Thomas Adam
So I should just give up on using apt-get
dist-upgrade and try to go back?
ejd
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:43:40AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
I tried to use dselect but was unable to make it
work. That was likely my fault as I found the the
interface very confusing. If dselect is my only
choice I will go back to dpkg -i and laboriously cut
and paste all the warnings
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:43:40AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
... the whole system out of whack. For example, I now have a new
kernel (2.4.27-x) and the new lib6c library (2.3.x) going but very
little else is up to date. The compiler is 2.95 which puts it out
of whack with both the old
On Monday 11 October 2004 10:25 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall
install
I took the liberty of making a script from this excellent tip:
Begin Script
#!/bin/bash
# This script *MUST* be ran either
# as root or under sudo.
# The
--- Bill Marcum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you tried aptitude?
I bet it is in that mass of .debs that are downloaded
but not installed I am sure it is a much needed
improvement to dselect
ejd
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--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What distribution did you START with?
Woody, 2.2.20-idepci, from CD's I purchased.
What distro is your sources.list pointing to?
testing from the main station. I ran apt-get
dist-upgrade pointing to a mirror at MIT but it was
missing some packages
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
... I got all the
packages...the problem is they sit in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory uninstalled, except
for a few crucial ones that hurt more than they
helped, like libc6 2.3.x.
How about 'find /var/cache/apt/archives
Howdy Folks,
I tried to do a dist-upgrade about 3 or 4 days ago, and I got the following
messages, which are still happening today.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alsa-base libasound1
The following packages have been kept back
kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork
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