Subject: Help with apt
Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:04:48PM +0200
In reply to:Daniel Mashao
Quoting Daniel Mashao([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains
> about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it firs
Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt?
If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into
dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato.
Of course, I can always just go download the deb and run dpkg on it, but is
there a better w
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt?
>
> If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into
> dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato.
>
> Of course, I can always just go download the deb a
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 11:20:12AM -0400, Jonathan J. Lupa wrote:
> Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt?
>
> If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into
> dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato.
>
> Of course, I ca
Subject: RE: Help with apt
Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 11:20:12AM -0400
In reply to:Jonathan J. Lupa
Quoting Jonathan J. Lupa([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt?
>
> If I add entries for 'un
*- On 7 May, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: Help with apt"
>
> Or if you do apt-get upgrade
>
> Add the potato link to sources.list and then just do
> apt-get update ( to let apt & dselect know about the potato Package
> lists) then apt-get install apt.
>
&g
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Dselect ? Do people 'still' use that?
Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
in a directory and install it with dpkg.
I have tried apt, but could not g
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
> in a directory and install it with dpkg.
>
> I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a
> dire
Subject: Re: Help with apt
Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:16:55AM -0400
In reply to:Mitch Blevins
Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> > sometimes I dow
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> > > sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
> > > in a directory and install it
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:36:03PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> I'm using apt-move since some time without problems.
> Suddenly(?) the following error message appears:
Can you tell me exactly what apt-move command you were using when you
got that error message?
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On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote:
> Can you tell me exactly what apt-move command you were using when you
> got that error message?
It was apt-move get, IIRC. (not in the office now...)
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> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:36:03PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> > I'm using apt-move since some time without problems.
> > Suddenly(?) the following error message appears:
The problem has been solved: It was a consecutive fault of
a DNS resolution problem. The funny thing is, that it
worked befor
On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me
> that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an
> invalid operation.
>
> --
> my place on the web:
> floss-and-misc.blogspot.com
I think
Hi.
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me
> that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an
> invalid operation.
Dunno if you didn’t see it but the last mail in this report says that the patch
providing t
On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me
> that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an
> invalid operation.
Dunno if you didn't see it but the
also you can always do: dpkg --purge
zach
On 6/22/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me
> > that "apt-ge
On 2007-06-23, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[rearranging for legibility]
> On 6/22/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55:
>> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr
On 6/23/07, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem with this solution being that you have to work out
dependancy chains by yourself, where an apt-get/aptitude purge will work
them out for you.
To see for yourself, try it on any "-data" package.
That's true but I like contro
Zach wrote:
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
> >To see for yourself, try it on any "-data" package.
>
> That's true but I like controlling exactly what is purged and I prefer
> CLI over GUI.
apt-get is a CLI. Try 'apt-get remove --purge somepackage'.
Bob
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> From: Zach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: help with "apt-get purge"
>
> On 6/23/07, Christ
Hmm, seems that the apt-get upgrade process is trying to open a
connection to the X server and is of course refused to do so.
Try to type in the xterm, before you do su, xhost + (this gives anyone
access to your X server, not very secure though), then su and do the
apt-get upgrade, then exit from
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 09:41 -0300, luciano wrote:
> Anyone can help me with this ?
> I can't do a Upgrade ever more.
>
>
> luciano:/home/luciano# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... D
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:07:59AM +0530, Rishi wrote:
> After installing Debian Sarge (testing) from a CD which was around a year
> old, I did an apt-get upgrade and after downloading 240 MB it gave this
> error:
[snip]
> My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this...
> =
> You might want to change that. Sarge has has been stable for months now.
> You're doing a stable-to-testing upgrade while testing is in a state of
> major flux.
Hi
So is this what it should be?
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main c
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:09:24PM +0530, Rishi wrote:
> So is this what it should be?
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
Yes. O, wait a minute. No. I would choose 'sarge' here instead of
'stable'. For now it would b
"Colquhoun, Ian:" wrote:
>
> First let me apologize for the seemingly basic question but I have exhausted
> all the documentation on apt and I don't know where else to turn.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to get apt-get to work through a SOCKS firewall.
> Now, I basically know nothing about SOCKS
>
>
> "Colquhoun, Ian:" wrote:
> >
> > First let me apologize for the seemingly basic question but I have exhausted
> > all the documentation on apt and I don't know where else to turn.
> >
> > What I'm trying to do is to get apt-get to work through a SOCKS firewall.
> > Now, I basically know n
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