apt-get strangeness?

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok... lupus:/usr/lib# dpkg -l xlib6g Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-===

Re: apt-get strangeness

2001-02-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > I've noticed a strange problem with apt-get: it downloads packages > twice. Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm using Woody, and I've > noticed this error for some weeks now. It seems to have been reported in > bug report #79277, but it's

apt-get strangeness

2001-02-23 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I've noticed a strange problem with apt-get: it downloads packages twice. Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm using Woody, and I've noticed this error for some weeks now. It seems to have been reported in bug report #79277, but it's still causing a lot of excess traffic up until today...

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:44:50PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Er no, this is completely silly. There are no problems that APT does not > catch. > > Your problem in that APT has interesting way to complain about missing > dependencies. You need to to include more packages on the some instal

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, apt-get shouldn't be used when something's broken? I used apt-get in > the first place, so I take it that means that apt-get didn't catch the > problem. I know the packaging tools are much better than my rpm experiences, > but I'd love to s

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:49:45AM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred > method, verify that the source list is correct and then go on > updating your packages lists and then selecting the compiler. This will > bring up some conf

Re: apt-get strangeness

2000-11-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm confused. I'm trying to install the C++ compiler. [...] > So what's going on? How do I get this thing installed? Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred method, verify that the

apt-get strangeness

2000-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I'm confused. I'm trying to install the C++ compiler. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: g++: Depends: libstdc++2.10-dev (>= 1:2.95.2-10) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages lupus:~# apt-get install libstdc++2.10-dev Reading Package List