Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 01:08:52PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:21:04 +0100 > wrote: > > > If that's a genuine question, and if that interests others, I'd be glad to > > post my upgrade notes. There are many resources out there, of which I'd > > recommend (at least): > >

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Ron
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:21:04 +0100 wrote: > If that's a genuine question, and if that interests others, I'd be glad to > post my upgrade notes. There are many resources out there, of which I'd > recommend (at least): > > https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd > http://noo

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 16 February 2016 14:20:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:08:53PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:21:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > if that interests others, I'd be glad to > > > post m

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:08:53PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:21:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > if that interests others, I'd be glad to > > post my upgrade notes > > Yes, please. OK. It might take me a couple of days,

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:21:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > if that interests others, I'd be glad to > post my upgrade notes Yes, please. Lisi

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:59:55AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:53:41 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux. > > > > Jessie without systemd? > > How do you ins

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Ron
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:53:41 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux. > > Jessie without systemd? How do you install that ? Cheers, Ron. -- Ninety percent of everything is crud.

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:35:16AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 arian wrote: you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too), as it makes figuring out why it does what much easier, among other things. For a start, it lists things one item per

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:53:41AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 16 February 2016 11:35:16 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 > > > > arian wrote: > > > you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too),

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 16 February 2016 11:35:16 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 > > arian wrote: > > you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too), as it > > makes figuring out why it does what much easier, among other things. For > > a start, it lists things one i

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread Ron
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 arian wrote: > you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too), as it makes > figuring out why it does what much easier, among other things. For a start, > it lists things one item per line by default. If you decide to do so, you > probably want

Re: Apt-get question

2016-02-16 Thread arian
> When I execute apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, [...] Let me quote `man apt-get`: upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:24:24PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wro

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:48:29PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have a debian system installed and want to dist > upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade > only the installed debs and not to download everything > under the sun! dist-upgrade will only upgrade those packages tha

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude n

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > > install 'recommends', > > If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should onl

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > install 'recommends', If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only be a suggests it is considered a bug. -- Chris. == "One, with God,

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >>> >>> I have a debian system installed and want to dist >>> upgrade it, BUT I want apt--

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a debian system installed and want to dist upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade only the installed debs and not to download everything under the sun! 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does exactly that. It tries to update as many of the installed packages a

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have a debian system installed and want to dist > upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade > only the installed debs and not to download everything > under the sun! > > Is such a thing possible? You might be looking for apt-get update apt-get upgrade

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a debian system installed and want to dist upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade only the installed debs and not to download everything unde

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have a debian system installed and want to dist > upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade > only the installed debs and not to download everything > under the sun! > > Is such a thing poss

[solved] Re: apt-get question

2007-10-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> ; but then, when I tried to install libopensync-plugin-syncml with: >> >> # apt-get install libopensync-plugin-syncml >> >> , I got error: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies. >> libopensync-plugin-syncml: Depends: libs

Re: apt-get question

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:48:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ; but then, when I tried to install libopensync-plugin-syncml with: > > # apt-get install libopensync-plugin-syncml > > , I got error: > > The following

Re: apt-get question

2007-10-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to catch the newer version of opensync, I added to sources.list the > following lines: > > #opensync > deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch main > deb-src http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch

Re: apt-get question

2007-10-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:34:59PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In order to catch the newer version of opensync, I added to sources.list the > following lines: > > #opensync > deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch main > deb-src http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/rep

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:05:02AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' > > Why? unless you want to use them again for so

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' Why? -- Marc Wilson | Remember, God could only create the world in 6 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because he didn't have an established user base. sign

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:15:35AM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > How does one install the upgrade that was downloaded as: > >apt-get upgrade -d > > -ishwar just run apt-get upgrade everything that is already downloaded won't be downloaded aga

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can one install a package downloaded as: > >apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 hopefully it is either in your present directory or in the archive directory - probably /var/cache/apt/archives ... do #dpkg -i .

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ishwar Rattan wrote: How can one install a package downloaded as: apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 If you download it first, then a simple `apt-get install gcc-4.3` later will install it. This is because apt looks in the local package cache before going to the network. -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
George Borisov wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > >>3) dpkg -P apache2 >>And then I remove apache2 > > > Try using "apt-get remove --purge apache2" instead? > > > Hope this helps, > That will not help as apache2 is just a meta-package. There are other packages with file in /etc/apache2. -Roberto

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > apt probably doesn't realise that you previously removed apache2 and so > doesn't know to reinstall the confs. just a guess there. 'apt-get remove apache2' removes the package but not the configuration files. Thus when he later did 'apt-get install apache2' apt ass

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread George Borisov
Eric Wong wrote: > > 3) dpkg -P apache2 > And then I remove apache2 Try using "apt-get remove --purge apache2" instead? Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread Eric Wong
Hi Roberto,   Really thanks a lot!   I tried to search it in google, but couldn't find out the solution. Your information is extremely helpful !! Thanks a lot!   :) KC Eric  On 5/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Wong wrote:> Hi,>> I am newbie to Debian, and have a question

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:16:42PM +0800, Eric Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get. > > Conside the following steps: > > 1) apt-get install apache2 > > Now apache2 is installed and working fine > > 2) rm -rf /etc/apache2 > I try to remove all configur

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:16:42PM +0800, Eric Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get. > > Conside the following steps: > > 1) apt-get install apache2 > > Now apache2 is installed and working fine great > > 2) rm -rf /etc/apache2 > I try to remove all

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
try 'dpkg-reconfigure apache2' Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get question

2006-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Eric Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get. > > Conside the following steps: > > 1) apt-get install apache2 > > Now apache2 is installed and working fine > > 2) rm -rf /etc/apache2 > I try to remove all configurations > > 3) dpkg -P apache2 > And

Re: apt-get question

2006-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:47:27 -0500 (EST) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have installed debian-archive-keyring and apt-get install still > complains like: > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > tex-common tetex-base libkpathsea4 libpoppler0c2 libt1-5 tete

Re: apt-get question

2005-05-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:11:51PM +0200, Dominik Epple wrote: > Hi list, > > I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building > a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the > machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. Ca

Re: apt-get question

2005-05-11 Thread Dominik Epple
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building > > a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the > > machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives > > directory. Can I

Re: apt-get question

2005-05-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dominik Epple (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building > a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the > machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. Can I make apt-get download

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 19:00 GMT, Alfredo Valles penned: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 5:26 pm, JG wrote: >> >> No. We base the stability of our system by using "stable" (and, >> possibly, backports: www.apt-get.org). > > > But it would be a good idea to add to apt the capability of undo the > mo

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-05 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 5:26 pm, JG wrote: > Hi, > > Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:26:15PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > > The general answer is "downgrades are not supported". It is often > > > possible to just install the previous versions of packages with

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 08:23 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:40:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett said >> With no way to go back? Right... > > Notice that I said "general", by the way. It is often possible to > trivially downgrade packages with dpkg, but sometimes it is extremely > diffic

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:40:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett said > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:26:15PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > The general answer is "downgrades are not supported". It is often > > possible to just install the previous versions of packages with "dpkg" > > (look in /var/cache/apt/archives

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:40:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > You've got to be kidding me. Hm, let's base the stability of our system on > whether or not someone bothered to report a bug? With no way to go back? > Right... You mean let's NOT, as potentially useful input, evaluate whether or not a

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-04 Thread Joe Rhett
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:26:15PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > The general answer is "downgrades are not supported". It is often > possible to just install the previous versions of packages with "dpkg" > (look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for old .debs), but there are no > guarantees. Installing "apt

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:14:51PM -0700, Robert Soricone said > Is it possible to "undo" an upgrade performed by apt-get, i.e. revert to > your previous state? The general answer is "downgrades are not supported". It is often possible to just install the previous versions of packages with "dpkg"

Re: apt-get question

2003-07-10 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:20:37AM -0700, James LeClair wrote: > Hello all. Could someone suggest, or better yet provide an example, a way > to edit a sources.list file so as to have the most up to date debian > desktop system possible. Suppose I could just install Knoppix but that > would be to

Re: apt-get question

2003-07-09 Thread Dan Hunt
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:20:37AM -0700, James LeClair wrote: > would be to easy. I have done some experimenting, but every time I appear > to have done the dist-upgrade successfully, KDE completely breaks down. James, see the new book in progress at http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Upda

Re: apt-get question

2003-07-09 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030710 12:53]: > Hello all. Could someone suggest, or better yet provide an example, a way > to edit a sources.list file so as to have the most up to date debian > desktop system possible. Well it depends on whether you are running stable, testing or uns

Re: apt-get question

2003-06-02 Thread Thomas Elsen
Ferenc Engard wrote: Hi all, Can I (permanently) overdrive the dependency settings of a package? I.e., I want to disable a 'conflicts' dependency which is not a conflict to me, anyway, I have installed the package in question with "dpkg -i --force-conflicts", and works great. But, in this state a

Re: apt-get question

2001-11-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 07:33:21AM +0530, Jijo Jose A ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi all > > i am trying to download packages from > http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US/, > using apt-setup, it update the packages lists and after it don't work with > apt-get , the error occured like > > apt-

RE: apt-get question.

2001-07-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> BTW Is there a way to build debian pakages manually, I > mean I rather download the files (diff, dsc > orig.tar.gz ...using any ftp client into local and > build it. > sure, how do you think we do it? dpkg-source -x foo.dsc cd foo-version dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc # make sure you in

Re: apt-get question

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Vishal Soni wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can specify a destination with > apt-get? i.e. apt-get installs everything in /usr, but > I want to get it to install in /usr/local/... > > Thanks in advance, > v Also, where files get installed to is determined by the package, not by apt-get. Tom

Re: apt-get question

2001-07-19 Thread User zos
Why would you want to do this? The whole point of having /usr/local is to keep what you add to your system seperate from the main distribution. This is at least Debian's implementation of what /usr/local should represent. Is there a specific reason that you would want to prefer /usr/local over /usr

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-23 Thread Jorge Santos
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using > something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the > other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an > 'apt-get install postgresql install the version from

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using > something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the > other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an > 'apt-get install postgresql inst

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using >something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the >other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an >'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testi

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any comments on the proposed-updates? It's not testing but it is not > approved stable either. proposed-updates (which is a link to potato-proposed-updates/) contains updates to stable. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Eric Richardson wrote: > > > Here are the questions. Thanks for all the help. I'll put what I'm thinking to do as a result of all the responses. > > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > first in the file and then online second? I'll put the CD's first in the

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Harald Thingelstad
b3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > > first in the file and then online second? > > I'm not entirely sure if order matters or not... It does. If you keep the

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Keith Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:16:35AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > Now, we all use `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' on a regular > > basis. But you're supposed to use `apt-get dist-upgrade' when moving > > between distributions. What happens if

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-11 Thread Keith Johnson
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:16:35AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > Now, we all use `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' on a regular > basis. But you're supposed to use `apt-get dist-upgrade' when moving > between distributions. What happens if stable changes without your > knowledge and you run

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-11 Thread Bill Wohler
b3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > they switch. (IE: if you use "potato" you'll always get "potato" > packages, but if you use "stable", then when woody becomes stable, > you'll get upgraded to woody.) Now, we all use `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' on a regular basis. But you're supposed to u

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-11 Thread b3
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > first in the file and then online second? I'm not entirely sure if order matters or not - I generally only keep the cdrom entries in there until I have the net

Re: apt-get question

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Ameurlain Antoine wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I recently installed a package (aterm) from its debian package file > with dpkg -i. Since I have a compiled version of Xfree864.0, I had > to force the installation (aterm required "xlibs" which I haven't got). > Fine. > But now, apt-ge

Re: apt-get question

2000-10-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apt-get question Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 01:39:59PM -0700 In reply to:Wayde C Gutman Quoting Wayde C Gutman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This what I have gone through so far, > > First tried to apt-get dist-update with the following in > /ect/apt/sources.list, > > ftp://ft

Re: apt-get question

2000-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
Wayde C Gutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This what I have gone through so far, > >First tried to apt-get dist-update That should be dist-upgrade, I hope ... >with the following in /ect/apt/sources.list, > >ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/apt 0.3.19 >i386.deb >also

Re: apt-get question

2000-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? >Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I >have to install? apt-cache search whatever I found that the investment of time in learning dselect was well w

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-31 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:41:53PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > the debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > from time to time you get asked, wether you want to delete these > files. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, these are packages containing binaries, not source. If you want to down

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:49:08PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Does "apt-get" also save the downloaded software? yes. > If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip? the debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ from time to time you get asked, wether you want to delete these

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
"michael d. ivey" wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:25:28PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i > > never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i > > keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:25:28 -0700, Nate Amsden said: [snip] : : you can 'clear' the cache if you want by running apt-get clean. you can : also specify another location to download to, you can also tell it to : download *only* and not install(see manpage for apt-get), one thing apt :

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread michael d. ivey
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:25:28PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i > never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i > keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search ' > but none of my machines with apt

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread cls-colo spgs
yes; and /var/cache/apt/archives hth. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > [snip > Does "apt-get" also save the downloaded software? > If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip? > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > In FreeBSD there exists a "ports" tree with hundreds of > software titles that have been "ported" to FreeBSD. One only > has to connect to Internet and do a "make; make install; make clean" > for FreeBSD to go to the proper FTP site(s) to download the > software

Re: apt-get question---

1999-12-07 Thread Tom Goulet
>Where does apt-get download the files from? /etc/apt-get/sources.list man apt-get would have told you. TomG > >Tom > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > pgpPFJ4OK0vuH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread David Gaudine
From: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through >the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: >Skipping deselected package: bash >Skipping deselected package: bang >Skipping deselected package: beat I rememb

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Shawn, you wrote on Sat, Mar 20 1999: >In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because >it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink >resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the >resolution? You may have overlooked it: there was an apt in t

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > > > I think what he means is that when you install

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Yes, I mean that after selecting install, it check every single packages. David Gaudine wrote: > > > I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about > >it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because > >it rolls through every single package on the dis

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Sarel Botha
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through > the CD and checks ever

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Will Lowe
> What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: Skipping deselected

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread David Gaudine
> I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about >it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because >it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve >this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution? What exactly do y