In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:47:24
+0800, Katipo wrote:
Jules Dubois wrote:
Libranet decided a few months ago to modify my sources.list to
use unstable instead of testing.
When the Debian server compromise happened, Libranet installed their own
mirror site.
On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:07, Jules Dubois wrote:
[...]
I still have this question:
If I can find some combination of installable or upgradable packages
which removes a broken condition, can I just go ahead and install
them? (I must have a reliable system for the next three weeks or so
and
Jules Dubois wrote:
I still have this question:
If I can find some combination of installable or upgradable packages which
removes a broken condition, can I just go ahead and install them? (I
must have a reliable system for the next three weeks or so and then I can
break it.)
I think the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Tue, 20 Apr 2004
22:27:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or
dselect.
[snip]
I keep hearing about the advantages of aptitude (over, for example,
Synaptic), but your article, Mr. Hess, was excellent. I
Jules Dubois wrote:
Libranet decided a few months ago to modify my sources.list to
useunstable instead of testing. I'm now finding there are about 50
packages
I can't upgrade because of unsatisfied dependencies.
Hello Jules,
I had the same problem, I've got Libranet 2.8.1 installed.
When
On 2004-04-21, Michael D Schleif penned:
I would have been using aptitude long ago, _except_ for this hurdle on
my systems:
# sudo aptitude -P upgrade
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree =20
Reading extended state information... Done
I think this is the
* Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:04:23:17:41:52-] scribed:
On 2004-04-21, Michael D Schleif penned:
I would have been using aptitude long ago, _except_ for this hurdle on
my systems:
# sudo aptitude -P upgrade
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building
On 2004-04-23, Michael D Schleif penned:
Search for TRACKING UNUSED PACKAGES in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
for more details.
Although, I found `unused' and other information in that file, `TRACKING
UNUSED PACKAGES' is not in my file. What version of aptitude are you
running?
This was
Michael D Schleif wrote:
The following packages have been kept back:
bastille x-window-system-core
The following packages will be upgraded:
arts dictionaries-common fontconfig gnome-vlc kernel-package libarts1
libartsc0 libdevmapper1.00 libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
On (20/04/04 22:27), Joey Hess wrote:
J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or dselect.
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:04:20:22:27:12-0400] scribed:
J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude
on Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:27:12PM -0400, Joey Hess insinuated:
J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
Thanks in advance
JSS
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Hello J.S.!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:51:19AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
To dselect or aptitude, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler
? and which is
better?
To dselect or aptitude, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outragous dselect
where, alas, Sarge can barely meet Sid
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by learning aptitude end them.
But seriously, both
Hello Karsten!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
aptitude is pretty much a replacement for both dselect (interactive) and
apt-get (command line). With near but not-quite drop-in replacement of
the latter. The strengths go beyond this to include logging of
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote:
--snip--
Nowadays I solely use aptitude and apt-get source / build-dep (and
occasionally a direct dpkg). The only thing I miss is dselect's
feature to show me a dependency resolution screen directly after
(de)selecting a package, but aptitude's
Hello Alex!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:37:01PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's
dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the
time I use wajig. The only thing that I can't do that I wish I could
(And someone
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:37, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote:
[...]
I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's
dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the
time I use wajig. The only thing that I can't do that
Graham Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:37, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote:
[...]
I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's
dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the
time I use wajig. The
Karsten M. Self wrote:
The short answer, though, is that you'd want aptitude over dselect in
virtually all instances. Though apt-get is still useful. Look also at
synaptic and, um, the other stuff.
Yet I have found instances when dselect seems to handle errors better than
aptitude. At least
Katipo writes:
I believe 'dpkg --purge package' does this also.
No. That removes package and all it's configuration files, which --remove
leaves in place.
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J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me
about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is
better?
Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or dselect.
1. aptitude can look just like apt-get
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