On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:26:54 +0100
Aldo Maggi wrote:
> Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing)
> I've received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to
> be uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
You have to be prepared to face things like
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:00:02 +0100, Aldo Maggi wrote:
> Yesterday while updating my system via dselect (I'm using testing) I've
> received the warning that "init and systemd-sysv" were going to be
> uninstalled and I had to approve or deny that action.
> I've thought that as in previous cases (to
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> > I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> > putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> > yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-
John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
> distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running
Perhaps using the Aptitude UI (Ncurses TUI) will let you unselect the
currently selected packages.
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I was speaking about the integrated aptitude help page, which is
using exactly same interface as info.
ah, now i understand.
at least, i think i do. i'm assuming by "exactly the same interface"
you mean they both take input from and provide output to a terminal?
since that describes practical
Le Dim 27 janvier 2013 17:02, wes davidson a écrit :
> hi morel.
>
> you wrote:
>> Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude.
>>
>
> i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am
> wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be obtained.
Hum... may
On Sun 27 Jan 2013 at 11:02:22 -0500, wes davidson wrote:
> hi morel.
>
> you wrote:
>
> >I do not like info at all: this is a software which pretends to help
> >you, but you have to learn how it works before being able to use it.
>
> when i first read a unix man page twenty years ago, i had a
hi morel.
you wrote:
Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude.
i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if
i am wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be
obtained.
i am aware of various manpages and the html documentation for
aptitude, whic
Le 24.01.2013 22:01, Richard Owlett a écrit :
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged
these
days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now
aptitude.
That depends on wh
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these
days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude.
That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wouldn't rec
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these
> days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude.
That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wouldn't recommend
dselect, but if
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:49:04PM -0800, Arne de Boer wrote:
> sudo bash
>
> apt-get install dpkg dselect
>
> dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkglistOK
>
> dselect
> mess around ;-)
>
> when finished:
>
> dpkg --set-selections < /root/dpkglistOK
I'm not entirely sure if this message was suppo
Dont know what that is , but I do know I cant get on your site
Scott t.
Parr
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[KS] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to
> see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything,
> so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.
>
> I was upgrading my system using dselect and after
Hi,
I describe a partial solution and the next problem below.
David Kirchner wrote:
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
to create the lockfile it wants to?
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
>
> but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
> to create the lockfile it wants to?
I'm not sure where it would put the lockfile, but you may be able to
find out us
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:39:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> [Using Debian 3.1 Etch]
>
> I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to
> install a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb
> available on the author's site. In fact, I
Oliver Elphick writes:
>Does your /etc/apt/sources.list reference woody or stable?
>
>They used to be the same, but now there is a new stable, sarge. So if
>you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as
>obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete
>u
Martin McCormick wrote:
In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay
some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message
is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly
robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly wha
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:06 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Today, here at work, I was going to install bittorrent on ta
> Debian system and I used dselect to list the packages in order to find
> bittorrent. It found it and I started to install from there except I
> saw that dselect was als
On (22/06/05 12:06), Martin McCormick wrote:
> In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay
> some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message
> is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly
> robust. Like anything, there are gotchas.
Hi Stephen,
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:18:08PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
> When running dselect it now wants to download about 80mB, remove programs I
> want and install new programs when I go to install..
> How do I tell it to leave the system as it is?
Don't run it? ;-)
Seriously, dsel
Giorgio Raccanelli wrote:
Hello,
I'm in trouble using dselect. I've just installed Debian Woody 3.0r3
i386 and I'm trying to add some package to my system. Using dselect I
make the selection and then I hit Return. I'm warned about the
dependencies. I press space and I see the dependency list. Fr
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:23:54PM -0800, James Kirk wrote:
> > The correct way to keep a package in its current
> > uninstalled form is
> > *not* to put in on hold.
>
> Can you point to the documentation that says this is
> the correct way to keep a package in its current
> state?
I'll express
--- Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:05:44PM -0800, James Kirk
> wrote:
> > The dselect's online help states, when describing
> key
> > usage, the H or = will hold a package in its
> present
> > state, and when describing the meaning of the
> symbols
> > us
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:05:44PM -0800, James Kirk wrote:
> The dselect's online help states, when describing key
> usage, the H or = will hold a package in its present
> state, and when describing the meaning of the symbols
> used in the 4 state columns that = denotes the package
> is on hold, a
--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk
> wrote:
> > Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find
> that
> > dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of
> packages
> > (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have
> > recommends/suggests (
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote:
> Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that
> dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages
> (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have
> recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb)
> that don't interest me. I
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote:
> Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that
> dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages
> (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have
> recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb)
> that don't interest me. I
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:55:04 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
>
>> Incoming from Jules Dubois:
>> >
>> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled
>> > something like "9 reasons to use aptitude instead of apt-get".
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Jules Dubois:
> >
> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled
> > something like "9 reasons to use aptitude instead of apt-get".
>
> Por favor, where is that article?
Perhaps this is the arti
On Friday 29 October 2004 08:30 pm, Jules Dubois wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> > Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect
> > can do.
>
> I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I
> recommend it.
>
> > If there
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Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
> I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me, a debian newbie, :) .
Yeah, I never really cared for dselect, myself.
> Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect
> can do.
Incoming from Jules Dubois:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
>
> > Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can
> > do.
>
> I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I
> recommend it.
>
> > If there is graphic tool, that
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can
> do.
I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I
recommend it.
> If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
Synaptic. It's what I used
Incoming from J. Hannemann:
>
> > I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
> > a debian newbie, :) .
> > Is there any other tool that can do such the
> > things that dselect can
> > do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
>
> You can bypass dselect and use apt to instal
--- Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
> a debian newbie, :) .
> Is there any other tool that can do such the
> things that dselect can
> do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
> Thanks.
>
>
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O sorry for that noise!
I have my orientation back:
I installed (some times ago) upgrade-system and this package installed
/etc/apt/preferences
(which is unusable for my dist-selection).
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On Aug 07, 09:32, Dieter wrote:
> I lost the orientation with dselect.-( Can anyone tell how to get it
> back?-) I think I made somathing wrong but I don't know what.
> I don't understand why there are so many packages to be removed and
> downgraded.
> Is there a good way to get a "clean" status ba
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Florian Ernst wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:50:23AM -0700, Matt Perry wrote:
> > Why does dselect want to install packages that I haven't requested? I'm
> > not talking about dependencies. Here's how to replicate what I'm seeing.
> > [...]
> > Why is dselect wanting t
Hello!
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:50:23AM -0700, Matt Perry wrote:
> Why does dselect want to install packages that I haven't requested? I'm
> not talking about dependencies. Here's how to replicate what I'm seeing.
> [...]
> Why is dselect wanting to install packages that I didn't request?
AF
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Yesterday apt-get maliciously lunched my install (okay, okay, I was
> trying to upgrade firestarter even though apt-get told me to file a bug
> report because it thought the install was impossible... more on that coming
> up soon).
:} I'd t
> What are you thinking dselect does for you that apt-get doesn't?
well, this is just an anecdote (the singular of data...), but -
Yesterday apt-get maliciously lunched my install(okay, okay, I was
trying
to upgrade firestarter even though apt-get told me to file a bug report
because it though
> From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Aptitude, apt-get and dpkg are more than enough to help me out in a
> command line environ. Actually I do not use any other interfaces for
> package management.
Then... Why are you complaining?
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> From: Steven Satelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote:
> > Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal
> > {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the
>
> I've always found that unless I stick to on
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> >> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> > DO NOT USE dselect!
>> >
>> > Why not?
>>
>> Why are you asking m
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know
> about t
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal
> {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the
I've always found that unless I stick to one package manager - synaptic at
the moment, they resolv
> From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
> >
> > How's that?
>
> Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with thin
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
>
> How's that?
I am subscribed to D-U.
Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with things that way dselect does, in its
ne
> From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
How's that?
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On (13/07/04 13:36), Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending
> > aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends.
>
> Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.
--- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending
> aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends.
Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.
-- Thomas Adam
=
"The Linux Weekend Mechanic"
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
> >
> >> >> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumpi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
>
>> >> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core,
>> >> and fiddling with package selections using dsele
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:44:30PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> dselect shows gimp-2.0.2-2, but "apt-get -s install gimp" shows that
> 2.0.2-3 version will be installed. I added a couple of other apt sourced
> (one in Germany and one in Neatherlands), and dselect and apt-get still
> show the same info
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:13:54PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote:
> I downloaded the woody update image and wrote to a cd. I tried to use
> dselect to install from it. I tried using CD-ROM but it didn't work.
> It had setup apt as the method so I tried it and tried to point it to
> the right pl
Chris wrote:
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:55, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Henry Hollenberg wrote:
I keep getting a line from dselect about packages that will
not be upgraded:
98 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
I wonder, have I screwed something up?
Regardless of how th
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:55, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> > I keep getting a line from dselect about packages that will
> > not be upgraded:
> >
> > 98 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
> >
> > I wonder, have I screwed something up?
> >
Regar
Henry Hollenberg wrote:
I keep getting a line from dselect about packages that will
not be upgraded:
98 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
I wonder, have I screwed something up?
Here is my "cat /etc/apt/sources.list":
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
On (19/02/04 20:54), Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> I keep getting a line from dselect about packages that will
> not be upgraded:
>
> 98 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
>
> I wonder, have I screwed something up?
This morning I upgraded using aptitude and experienced so
[NaNu]
> I want to install the latest version of XMMS that requires glib >=
> 1.2.2 Using dselect, I found out that I have 2 versions of glib
> installed: 1.2.10.4 and 2.2.3-0jds. I suspect that the ./configure
> script of XMMS detects the older version instead of the newest one.
It does. glib 1
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:29, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:42, bob wrote:
> > I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to
> > include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I
> > used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, wh
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> Thank you. Worked perfectly.
No problem, glad to be of assistance.
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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:42:59AM -0800, bob wrote:
> I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to
> include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I
> used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run
> dselect, it wants to install
On 2004-02-05, bob penned:
>
> I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to
> include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I
> used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run
> dselect, it wants to install the binary from security
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:42, bob wrote:
> I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to
> include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I
> used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run
> dselect, it wants to install the binary fr
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> If you've fixed /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf manually, which you seemed
> to suggest you had, then just to make sure search for check_pg_hba_conf
> in /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst and try to work out why it
> still thinks that file is in an old fo
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:17:43PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> > What does 'dpkg --configure ' say?
>
> Setting up postgresql (7.3.4-10) ...
> Could not read /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf at
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/convert.pg_hba.conf line 4.
> dpkg: e
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> What does 'dpkg --configure ' say?
Setting up postgresql (7.3.4-10) ...
Could not read /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf at
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/convert.pg_hba.conf line 4.
dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure):
subprocess post-installation scrip
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:36:12PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
> I'm trying to install a postgresql package.
>
> dselect/apt choked on installation, and returned an error.
>
> However, it seemed that it really did install it,a nd with a bit of
> manual tweaking, I got it to work.
Not entirely,
Hello Stephen!
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:30:54PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
It looks like /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg contains rubbish. What are the
contents of that file?
Yes. Following entry was found (only one line);
option = expert
I removed this line and then it worked normal.
What will be the
Hi Colin,
> > # dselect
> > dselect: configuration error: unknown option option: Success
>
> It looks like /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg contains rubbish. What are the
> contents of that file?
Yes. Following entry was found (only one line);
option = expert
I removed this line and then it worked normal
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:32:01PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> # dselect
> dselect: configuration error: unknown option option: Success
It looks like /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg contains rubbish. What are the
contents of that file?
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Hi Greg,
Thanks for your advice.
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> > # dselect update
> > dselect: configuration error: unknown option option: Success
>
> You haven't selected any method.
>
> just run:
>
> dselect
>
> and confinger it (option 0). Since you already have a sources.list...
> answer NO to the question.
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:42, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> In running
> # dselect update
> dselect: configuration error: unknown option option: Success
>
> What does it mean??? Can I ignore it and continue to proceed
> # dselect select
> # dselect install
> ???
>
> # cat /etc/apt/sources.l
I have upgraded this computer's installation since 1997, about 6 years,
transferring the installed disk drives across 3 successively newer computers.
Two years ago, after upgrading several computers from potato to woody,
I found upgrading from potato to woody produced enough problems that
I never u
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:36:11 -0600
tripolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
T> I open dselect and search / for nvidia
T> 3 choices come up. i enter return a few times, get to "install" enter
T> then this comes up
T> Why are all these kde programs being removed? Am I not doing
T> something right? Thanks
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:46:16PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> I am upgrading from potato to woody (in anticipation of sarge),
> having just upgraded my potato packages with the Debian potato
> archives, and with the potato security archives.
> I run dselect with the "apt" access method,
> I up
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 01:36, tripolar wrote:
> I open dselect and search / for nvidia
> 3 choices come up. i enter return a few times, get to "install" enter
> then this comes up
> Why are all these kde programs being removed? Am I not doing something right?
> Thanks
>
> "Reading Package Lists...
Am Di, den 04.11.2003 schrieb Benedict Verheyen um 10:55:
> Hi,
>
> when cloning a system via the dpkg --get-selection, dpkg --set-selection
> method, it's advised to do a apt-get dselect-upgrade instead of
> apt-get dist-upgrade. I do not understand why.
>From the man page (man apt-get):
* Joachim Fahnenmueller
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> > and a new testing version of XFree 3.2.
>
> 3.2 isn't _very_ new, is it? Did you install it as a deb package?
Yes, but from some non official looking http address. The downloading
process gave me a lot of
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
>
>
> My current problem took place when I entered dselect in order to
> REALLY configure my system. There was a LOT of conflicts. And I
> couldn't make head or tails out of these things.
>
> Maybe the problems manifasted themselve
On Saturday 27 September 2003 2:18 am, Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2003 10:29 am, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install
On Friday 26 September 2003 10:29 am, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the
> > > largest part timewise if one uses it.
>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:13:13PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> I somehow managed that dselect insists on installing or uninstalling
> dozends of packages (which will most likely ruin my installation). I've
> tried everything to erase the selections from dselects memory, including
> all so
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:13:13PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I somehow managed that dselect insists on installing or uninstalling
> dozends of packages (which will most likely ruin my installation). I've
> tried everything to erase the selections from dselects memory
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:12:00 -0400, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> You may like aptitude; it has a similar (though more familiar to me)
> user interface to dselect,
I use the following as ~/.aptitude/config, which gives me
pretty much the look and feel of dselect with aptitude
"DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man
> apt.conf' for all the details.
>
> The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to
> pick which version of a particular package I want to install when
> multip
The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man
apt.conf' for all the details.
The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to
pick which version of a particular package I want to install when
multiple versions are available with apt-get.
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, R Ransbottom wrote:
> How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect
> so that they "want" the same packages?
>
> If I understand the apt-get man page
> running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will
> set up the system per the setting last
> made using dselect. Correct?
yes
> How do yo
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:15:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Perhaps the best solution is to remove the unstable sources after
> installing the desired packages.
Actually, even better is to use an apt-aware tool like aptitude
instead of dselec
David Z Maze wrote:
> Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
>>
>> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>>
>> in my apt.conf?
>
> Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written
> first, and doesn't really understand
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:41:33PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
> >
> > APT::Default-Release "testing";
> >
> > in my apt.conf?
>
> Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect w
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:23:57PM +0200, Thomas Gies wrote:
> Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>
> in my apt.conf?
Unstable pinned at the same or higher priority? Pinning's kind of a
Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>
> in my apt.conf?
Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written
first, and doesn't really understand why one would have multiple
avai
See the "unable to install libpam0g ?" thread of 6/25.
Graeme
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:09:23PM -0400, Howell Evans wrote:
> problem that i have no idea how to beat. When i try and do an upgrade i
> get these issues
>
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
> libpam0g
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to confi
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:25:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:00:38 -0800
> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What tools you use for Debian archive access and what dependency
> > problem you encounter are orthogonal problem. It is just an
> > impression y
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