Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:15:32PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, no. dselect will always try to enforce a Recommends. In the resolution screen, Shift-R will revert all of dselect's additions and then Shift-Q will finish.

Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that wants to have libc6-dev, which is fine as

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote: I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that wants

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Aniartia
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:08, Petro wrote: I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Petro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Is there a way to tell dselect ONCE AND FOR ALL that I have no wish to install gcc on this machine? I don't know how this is done exactly, but I know you can create a dummy package and say that it provides gcc, etc. This way you and dselect can

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote: I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these

Re: question about dselect

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:15:05AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: once i try to remove a package by dselect,when it still not start to remove,i skiped,but question comes,later when i use dselect again,and it always try to remove the packages that i selected

question about dselect

2000-10-30 Thread oacl
once i try to remove a package by dselect,when it still not start to remove,i skiped,but question comes,later when i use dselect again,and it always try to remove the packages that i selected before,becouse it contains many dependence packages,so it is impossible to re-select them one by

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-10 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: This is what you want to do: 1. get qmail source and build a deb: apt-get install qmail-src cd qmail-src-* fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. ( 1a. maybe do the same for ucspi-tcp-src:)

replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-08 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bastard Operator From Hell wrote: I recently replaced exim with qmail as that is what I have to administer at work and I would rather glitch something up at home vs on-the-job. There is some additional effort required to install qmail, you have to compile your own

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-08 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joost Kooij wrote: Hi, On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bastard Operator From Hell wrote: I recently replaced exim with qmail as that is what I have to administer at work and I would rather glitch something up at home vs on-the-job. There is some additional effort required

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-08 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: 1. get qmail source and build a deb: apt-get install qmail-src cd qmail-src-* fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. sudo apt-get install qmail-src build-qmail, you mean. -- Havoc

Question about dselect

1999-11-07 Thread Chia-Sheng Chang
Hi, all, With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without automatically upgrading all packages? Thanks. -- Chia-Sheng Chang Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617 E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Question about dselect

1999-11-07 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:37:47PM +0800, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote: With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without automatically upgrading all packages? You should use apt-get rather than dselect for this. apt-get install pkg-name --Dylan Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about dselect

1999-11-07 Thread John Carline
Chia-Sheng Chang wrote: Hi, all, With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without automatically upgrading all packages? - Thanks. You can put all installed packages on hold by selecting = on the major heading lines - it shouldn't take more than 4 or 5 to

Re: Question about dselect..

1997-04-09 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the Cheap Bytes cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called rex-fixe on the cd. I must be missing something here, but I

Re: Question about dselect..

1997-04-08 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the Cheap Bytes cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called rex-fixe on the cd. I must be missing something here, but I

Re: Question about dselect..

1997-04-08 Thread Paul Wade
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the Cheap Bytes cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called rex-fixe on the cd. I must be missing something here, but I

Question about dselect..

1997-04-07 Thread smorrill
I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the Cheap Bytes cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called rex-fixe on the cd. I must be missing something here, but I cannot get dselect to recognize that