Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2005, 21:25 -0400 schrieb Tom Allison:
However, I am really not happy with aptitude. I prefered apt-get.
Really. But I will give aptitude a chance.
I found aptitude to be a pretty nice console tool. But it took me a
while to understand how it worked. RTFM
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:36:35AM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
Maybe calling apt deprecated was to wrong word, since english is not
my native language. What I wanted to say: The installation-docs for
sarge clearly say something like
Don't use apt-get anymore. It is not good in
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 22.06.2005, 05:57 -0400 schrieb Carl Fink:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:36:35AM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
Maybe calling apt deprecated was to wrong word, since english is not
my native language. What I wanted to say: The installation-docs for
sarge clearly say
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Thanks Kent, that did the trick
touch /etc/X11/Xserver followed by apt-get dist-upgrade -f
I am still having problems with a few application but at least my
installations are not erring out like they were before.
Brian
From what I found from the Debian Weekly
I found that link very interesting:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg11344.html
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or
dselect.
However, I am really not happy with aptitude. I prefered apt-get.
Really. But I will give aptitude a chance.
I found
Michael Martinell schrieb:
-Original Message-
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
apt-get is deprecated.
aptitude
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:12:44AM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Kevin,
Thanks, for the device. I used a touch command follow by an apt-get
mentioned in a previous post to get past that error.
I was having problems with Apache, PHP4, proftpd and MySQL. I got
past most of those by
Hi,
Am Montag, den 13.06.2005, 22:33 -0400 schrieb Marty:
I don't see anything there about not using dselect.
AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
apt-get is deprecated.
aptitude is the tool to be used.
Bye,
Ratti
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
apt-get is deprecated.
Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware
this was the case for day to day usage.
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
apt-get is deprecated.
Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware
this was the case for day to day usage.
It's by no means deprecated when you compare the
-Original Message-
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
apt-get is deprecated.
aptitude is the tool
Michael Martinell wrote:
I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a long*
ways to go before it is very useful to me. It reminds me of dselect -
clumsy and not very efficient. I could have a package found and installed
using apt-get before I even began to guess which
Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 19:59 + schrieb Andy Smith:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
apt-get is deprecated.
Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware
this was the case for day to day usage.
The release notes for sarge say
Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 21:14 +0100 schrieb Thomas Adam:
--- Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
apt-get is deprecated.
Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware
this was the case for
Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 15:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Martinell:
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
apt-get is deprecated.
aptitude is the tool to be used.
I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect gets
Craig Russell wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing
Greg Madden wrote:
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect
Kevin Mark wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Removing xserver-rage128 ...
sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
I'd look at the post removal script and
Thanks Kent, that did the trick
touch /etc/X11/Xserver followed by apt-get dist-upgrade -f
I am still having problems with a few application but at least my
installations are not erring out like they were before.
Brian
Kevin,
Thanks, for the device. I used a touch command follow by an apt-get
mentioned in a previous post to get past that error.
I was having problems with Apache, PHP4, proftpd and MySQL. I got
past most of those by installing the Webmin module which seem to
initiated a re-installation of the
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
snip
THIS IS INEXCUSABLE ! ! !
I find this on DEBACLE:
NOUN: 1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I find this on DEBACLE:
NOUN:... failure
Nothing on DEBOCLE.
Buy RedHat or SUSE.
Oh. Do they have spellcheck?
(I'm kidding-g-g-g! No need to flame me. Although a nice flame-broiled
Whopper sounds pretty
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-rage128 ...
sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
With a post like this, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get much
help. You're not exactly welcoming...
I
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-rage128 ...
sed: can't read
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
I'd like your help, but first let me abuse you as unpaid volunteers. I
HATE YOU! Please
Tom,
Please accept my apologies. With having having to manage 8 different
operating systems including MS NT, 2000, 2003, Cisco IOS, Cisco CatOS,
Cisco PIX, and Red Hat Advanced Server, Debian has by far been the
best to manage and the easiest to upgrade. I used dselect to upgrade
from potato to
Carl,
You are absolutely right, please accept my apologies. Please believe,
I DON'T HATE YOU. But the Slashdot article referenced Bill Allombert
in an article on the Australian ZDNet Site:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,261733,39196419,00.htm
I think there are some valid
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Or maybe some other source. I have just not heard of the term fine
manual before. But, you obviously know more about this than I do.
That is the polite definition of RTFM. :D
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Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-rage128 ...
sed: can't read
Yes, I did catch that subtlety. But, I which manual? There are
several you know.
Brian
On 6/13/05, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Or maybe some other source. I have just not heard of the term fine
manual before. But, you obviously know more about this
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
I do have a question though, what specifically are you referring to
when you say the fine manual ? Is this the installation guide at:
RELEASE NOTES, section 4 might be a good place to start.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
or the Progeny
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Carl,
You are absolutely right, please accept my apologies. Please believe,
I DON'T HATE YOU. But the Slashdot article referenced Bill Allombert
in an article on the Australian ZDNet Site:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,261733,39196419,00.htm
I think
Joey Hess wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-rage128 ...
sed: can't
Tom Allison wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I don't know why you used dselect to do this.
I am pretty certain that you really don't want to use dselect when doing
a distribution upgrade.
I think you are wrong about that.
Did you read the very fine manual before
Tom,
I have some Rat Hat servers I manage. Usually, you can't upgrade
between major releases you have to do a complete re-installation.
Kind of like that song they teach you at Microsoft.
fdisk, format, reinstall, du da, du da.
I might be suffering with Debian right now but its still better
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:31:18PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do
every once in a while but no required.
apt-get update;
apt-get dist-upgrade
This is the way you are supposed to do an upgrade of this type. Not
On Monday 13 June 2005 04:31 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to
Sarge and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
With a post like this, I wouldn't be surprised if you
True, compared to other operating system upgrades this is not that
bad. And no, I don't know if Slashdot reports the upgrade results of
other Linux distributions or other operating systems. It just seems
to me that this release was not up to Debian standards. I did not
experience anything like
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:48:27PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
You are absolutely right, please accept my apologies.
Accepted.
I've been frantic and posted things I didn't mean in my time, myself.
[snip]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-rage128: Depends:
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
In any case this is the typescript from my last upgrade attempt.
Compt-113ws:/home/cpisbk1# apt-get dist-upgrade -f
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
(Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently
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