Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
How much time did you waste on creating that? Goodbye to you too. You'll not be missed :) From: Steve Litt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies On Wed,

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > LOL!  Last time I was called that was in third grade or so.  It shows  your > level of maturity

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Bob Holtzman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 1:51 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list? You seem > to use "

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > > > > From: Bob Holtzman > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM > Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and depen

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:13:47PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > > > > > From: Bob Holtzman > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM > Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and depen

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/5/2014 1:13 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: *From:* Bob Holtzman *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM *Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > Ralph

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Horatio, On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list. Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity lenses spyware that i

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Bob Holtzman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told this more > than once y

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: snip > > "Before You Ask > > Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a > website chat board, do the following: > > 1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the foru

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > How do I learn it? Learning by doing ;). $ chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... [snip] Examples: chown root /uChange the owner of /u to "root". c

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Ralf Mardorf To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a > man(ual)page, b

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Darac Marjal
ed, orphaned files and dependencies > >> The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay >between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous. >> Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and > >> dpkg -i >

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual > First hit: > http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get JFTR for the search term: apt-get man or for: apt-get manpage The second hit is manpages.debian.net ;). -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
t;-f, --fix-broken Fix. Attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place." For research to answer your question yourself, you neither need to understand the syntax of a manpage, nor you need to read the whole text. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > apt-get -f install > > means a "force" install, am I correct? No, you aren't! "-f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place." - http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > From: Brian > > > The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay > > between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous. > > Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and > > > dpkg -i > > >

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Brian To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay > between dpkg and apt is sti

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Brian
will > > take care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, Pre-Depends:, > > etc.) and will refuse to install packages without satisfied > > dependencies unless --force switches are used. > > > > I think it's more accurate to say dpkg only handles files (be

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Joe
s for. It does no dependency checking, > > Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency > checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to install it will > take care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, Pre-Depends:, > etc.) and will re

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: The Wanderer To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > That depends on a number of other factors. > Literally speaking, dpkg will s

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread The Wanderer
gt;> install it will take care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, >> Pre-Depends:, etc.) and will refuse to install packages without >> satisfied dependencies unless > --force switches are used. > > What happens if we choose to use --force switches to install sof

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Andrei POPESCU To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency > checking. When pr

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
ay, but dpkg does indeed do dependency checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to install it will take care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, Pre-Depends:, etc.) and will refuse to install packages without satisfied dependencies unless --force switches are used. I think it'

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 20:05:23 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with > apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend > the one in the package "debian-reference-en" (or another language you prefer) > whi

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend the one in the package "debian-reference-en" (or another language you prefer) which of course is also available on the debian site. The search option of

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-01, Joe wrote: > > Other than that, it is a matter of personal preference. Aptitude has > a command-line text mode and an interactive text-graphics mode, apt-get > is older and is purely text. Aptitude merges various tools under one > command, apt-get, apt-cache and others make up a sma

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Joe
t few upgrades (to my knowledge, maybe always) from one version of Stable to the next, Debian has recommended that one is used, as it will deal better with dependencies. As I recall, apt-get was recommended for the upgrade to Wheezy, and aptitude for the last couple before that. Other than that,

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 05:49:24 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to > use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt' > command. Is that correct? No. The context you probably saw that in is important. > > $ aptitu

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jörg-Volker Peetz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies Thanks for your help, Jorg. > The aptitude command offers some help: I read somewhere on

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The aptitude command offers some help: $ aptitude search '~c' searches for packages that were removed but not purged, i.e., their configuration files are still present; to get rid of these files order $ aptitude purge '~c' Next: $ aptitude search '~g' searches for packages not required by any

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Floris
Op Sat, 31 May 2014 09:09:22 +0200 schreef Horatio Leragon : After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there are unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around. How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS? Try the following commands: $ sudo apt-get autoremove

Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Horatio Leragon
After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there are unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around. How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS?

Package dependencies

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Furie
as it does for real packages. In wheezy, looking at the gnome meta-package, the only package I would say is a genuine Depends: would be gnome-core, everything else should be a Recommends: or less. Instead of having dependencies like "libreoffice-writer | abiword" and "libreoffice-calc

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-13 Thread Reco
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:21:55 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > I don't use GNOME, so I'll leave that to you. :) > GNOME is one of the reasons I use a Window Manager. :) Nah, I'll pass. Stopped using GNOME back in 2007, never looked back since then. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:50:03AM +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > > > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>

Re: GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:18:01 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) > > WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? > > Seems like a bug

GNOME dependencies (was ... Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does)

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:26:10AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > paul@debguis2:~$ aptitude why libreoffice-writer > i gnome Depends libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8) WTF. Shouldn't that be a recommends? Seems like a bug to me. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the pe

Can't correct broken dependencies on WD MyBook Live?

2013-12-19 Thread galahad
Hi there, I've got a WD MyBook Live on which I want to compile no-ip DUC client. However, it seems unable to complete some dependencies during installation of compilation tools for a reason I have yet to understand, as my experience with Linux is mostly GUI-based. I would like it to fe

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-11-01 19:39 +0100, Tom H wrote: > >> So the "bad" variables are still documented in the aptitude docs and >> the "good" variables are undocumented except in the changelog. :( > > There seems to be a misunderstanding, the aptitude docume

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.10.2013 17:38, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2013-10-31 13:42 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : Set 'Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "false";' in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" and check whether the behavior changes. Just did the change: I added a file na

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-01 19:39 +0100, Tom H wrote: > So the "bad" variables are still documented in the aptitude docs and > the "good" variables are undocumented except in the changelog. :( There seems to be a misunderstanding, the aptitude documentation clearly states that Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportan

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-10-31 13:42 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : >> >>> Set 'Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "false";' in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" and >>> check whether the behavior changes. >> >> Just did the ch

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:42 PM, wrote: > Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:16 AM, wrote: >>> Le 31.10.2013 12:12, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, wrote: > > It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically remov

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 13:42 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : > >> Set 'Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "false";' in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" and >> check whether the behavior changes. > > Just did the change: > I added a file name "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/keep_suggests"

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:16 AM, wrote: Le 31.10.2013 12:12, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, wrote: It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as wh

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:16 AM, wrote: > Le 31.10.2013 12:12, Tom H a écrit : >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, wrote: >>> >>> It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at >>> least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as when I started >>> using Debian

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.10.2013 12:12, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, wrote: It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as when I started using Debian. I just discovered this because I marked mpd as autom

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, wrote: > > It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at > least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as when I started using > Debian. > > I just discovered this because I marked mpd as automatically installed, and > it was ke

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread berenger . morel
First, sorry for breaking the thread, I have removed the mails from my mailing box, so I can not use the "reply to" longer. So, about the subject, what I said was not complete: It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at least with aptitude), which I think was not t

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-30 Thread berenger . morel
there is one, I would be happy to learn it. Still doesn't make sense to me. I install "zonecheck" only. And that brought in the dependencies. Then I uninstalled 'zonecheck' it should have taken back those dependencies with it. None of the packages were marked recomm

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-28 Thread ruckus rogue
to learn it. Still doesn't make sense to me. I install "zonecheck" only. And that brought in the dependencies. Then I uninstalled 'zonecheck' it should have taken back those dependencies with it. None of the packages were marked recommended. So how could other packages ou

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.10.2013 01:38, ruckus rogue a écrit : On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Slavko wrote: I am sorry, perhaps i forgot to mention, that this is my setting. Or, to be more precise, i have shortcut to run "aptitude -R". Thanks all for the replies so far, but still a bit confused. I've alway

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread ruckus rogue
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Slavko wrote: > I am sorry, perhaps i forgot to mention, that this is my setting. Or, > to be more precise, i have shortcut to run "aptitude -R". Thanks all for the replies so far, but still a bit confused. I've always had a 06norecommends in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sun, 27 Oct 2013 22:47:00 +1300 Chris Bannister napísal: > > There are three types of dependencies: > > > > + depended = required > > + recommended = optional > > Unless you explicitly set recommended to optional, then they are > automatically install

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 27 October 2013 03:17 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:42:18AM +0100, Slavko wrote: >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:57 -0600 ruckusrogue >> napísal: >> >>> Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:42:18AM +0100, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:57 -0600 ruckusrogue > napísal: > > > Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages > > and their dependencies after installing? > > Ther

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:57 -0600 ruckusrogue napísal: > Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages > and their dependencies after installing? There are three types of dependencies: + depended = required + recommended = optional + suggested = optional

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-26 Thread Bob Proulx
ruckusrogue wrote: > Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages > and their dependencies after installing? Yes. Autoremove. > For instance on a wheezy install when I added 'eog' (eye of > gnome) it added 15 other dependency packages. Then removing

apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-26 Thread ruckusrogue
Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages and their dependencies after installing? For instance on a wheezy install when I added 'eog' (eye of gnome) it added 15 other dependency packages. Then removing ego only removed eog, literally. The dependencies remaine

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: > If you build things on a regular basis, install "schroot" and "sbuild", > and configure schroot to use "snapshot" chroots. This will give you > the same setup used on the buildds. You can create snapshots from > .tar.gz|bz2|xz (file), LVM LVs (lvm-snapshot) or Bt

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Roger Leigh
instantly remove them again > or > b) remove all build dependencies of a given package that are not >required by others? > > I know of deborphan etc., but they are usually rather cumbersome to > use (you have to iterate manually etc.). > > Are there any obvious oth

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Florian, Florian Ernst wrote: > There is mk-build-deps in the package devscripts, and there once was > sourcedeps.debian.net (now dysfunctional) which allowed to have a > sources.list for Build-Depends-metapackages created using mk-build-deps. > I don't know when and why the latter service wa

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:03:51PM +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > [...] > Are there any obvious other ways to solve this problem? I managed to > put together a small shell script[1] that creates a dummy/meta > package, but I’d really prefer something ‘official’. There is mk-build-deps

Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
them. This is obviously fine if I use a fresh chroot for every new build, but is there really no way to either a) mark such packages as installed automatically in some way that doesn’t instantly remove them again or b) remove all build dependencies of a given package that are not required by

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-03 Thread rbmj
On 03-Mar-13 01:51, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: This seems a fair use case. Note that if the symlink does not exist, a hierarchy of directories is created automatically by dpkg to accommodate the files, and the installation process will not explicitly fail. It doesn't fail - that's correc

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its >> Pre-depends field. Here is an example: >> >> bash ==(Depends)==> base-files ==(Pre-Depends)==> awk. >> > > Thanks - that's what I suspected but it wasn't entirely cle

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its Pre-depends field. Here is an example: bash ==(Depends)==> base-files ==(Pre-Depends)==> awk. Thanks - that's what I suspected but it wasn't entirely clear when I was

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> Hello everyone, > > One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package > C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B? > > In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies? C ==(Depends)==> A ==(Pre-Depends)==&

Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
Hello everyone, One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B? In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies? Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-24 Thread Vilius Panevėžys
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:47:00 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Is the package you want available in Squeeze backports? Unfortunately, no. [1] In another thread of this list I've seen someone suggesting that /etc/apt/apt.conf has been deprecated, so I've tried creating a file in /etc/apt/atp.conf.d with the d

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Lisi
On Friday 22 June 2012 17:36:30 Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > Yes, I'll do that as a fallback, but installing packages the manual way > looses all the advantages of the package management system. Let's say > that's an exercise to learn how to use apt along the way, though > I actually need the newer ve

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
ut using a testing package can even break not only you Eclipse installation (remember that testing packages update very often...) but badly messing up with system packages/ libraries because of dependencies. I mean, just be very cautius with the repository priorities when feeding from both sources.

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Vilius Panevėžys
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:23:52 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:13 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > > > I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the > > eclipse version available in squeeze. So, I'd be happy with the > > version from testing. > > (...

Re: Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:13 +0300, Vilius Panevėžys wrote: > I need eclipse >= 3.7 to use plug-ins that refuse to work with the > eclipse version available in squeeze. So, I'd be happy with the version > from testing. (...) Have you considered in getting the upstream package instead¹? Being a

Unmet dependencies installing eclipse from testing on a stable system

2012-06-22 Thread Vilius Panevėžys
you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev : Br

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2012-01-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:06:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:02:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > ... > > Painfully aware. I fled to xfce. I may go back when it stabilizes. In > > the meantime, it's getting in the way of smooth upgrades. I guess I > > coul

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2012-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:02:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... > Painfully aware. I fled to xfce. I may go back when it stabilizes. In > the meantime, it's getting in the way of smooth upgrades. I guess I > could uninstall gnome, but that seems drastic. Hey, same here ... a refugeee

Re: utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

2012-01-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-01-05 16:38:04 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > For Debian/unstable: > > > > Does there exist a utility to downgrade a package with its > > dependencies and reverse-dependencies? The old packages w

Re: utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

2012-01-05 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Darac Marjal a écrit : On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I was in this situation myself a while ago and decided that the best solution was as follows: * Before upgrading, take an LVM snapshot (this, of course, assumes you ARE on LVM). * Per

Re: utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

2012-01-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > For Debian/unstable: > > Does there exist a utility to downgrade a package with its > dependencies and reverse-dependencies? The old packages would > be taken from /var/cache/apt/archives, and the tool should be

utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

2012-01-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
For Debian/unstable: Does there exist a utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies and reverse-dependencies? The old packages would be taken from /var/cache/apt/archives, and the tool should be able to find automatically which packages/versions are needed to satisfy all the dependencies

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2011-12-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:27:25 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 28 dec 11, 02:35:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Recently, with wheezy, when I try to upgrade using aptitude in teh >> interactive interface, I get a lot of potentially unsatisfied >> dependencies. (I use u to up

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2011-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 28 dec 11, 02:35:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Recently, with wheezy, when I try to upgrade using aptitude in teh > interactive interface, I get a lot of potentially unsatisfied > dependencies. (I use u to update the package list, then U to make a set > of upgrades) Apti

resolving dependencies in aptitude

2011-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
Recently, with wheezy, when I try to upgrade using aptitude in teh interactive interface, I get a lot of potentially unsatisfied dependencies. (I use u to update the package list, then U to make a set of upgrades) Aptitude usually suggests I remove a lot of packages. gnome and its minions

Re: Injecting virtual dependencies into apt

2011-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Fredrik Tolf >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm wondering if there's a way to inject virtual packages into apt. For >>> my >>> part, I'm running a HTTP server that I've compiled and ins

Re: Injecting virtual dependencies into apt

2011-11-30 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: I'm wondering if there's a way to inject virtual packages into apt. For my part, I'm running a HTTP server that I've compiled and installed from source, and because apt doesn't know about it, it wants to inst

Re: Injecting virtual dependencies into apt

2011-11-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > I'm wondering if there's a way to inject virtual packages into apt. For my > part, I'm running a HTTP server that I've compiled and installed from > source, and because apt doesn't know about it, it wants to install Apache or > some other pa

Injecting virtual dependencies into apt

2011-11-30 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Dear List, I'm wondering if there's a way to inject virtual packages into apt. For my part, I'm running a HTTP server that I've compiled and installed from source, and because apt doesn't know about it, it wants to install Apache or some other package providing the virtual for such simple pa

Re: How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

2011-11-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 22 oct 11, 19:11:01, Aniruddha wrote: > When I install a package with apt-get it gets installed with all it's > dependencies. However when I remove a packages some dependencies are > left on the system. For example: > > to install: > apt-get install lxde > >

Re: How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

2011-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
installed with all it's > dependencies. However when I remove a packages some dependencies are > left on the system. For example: > > to install: > apt-get install lxde > > to remove: > apt-get remove lxde > apt-get autoremove > deborphan > > Does not re

How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

2011-10-22 Thread Aniruddha
When I install a package with apt-get it gets installed with all it's dependencies. However when I remove a packages some dependencies are left on the system. For example: to install: apt-get install lxde to remove: apt-get remove lxde apt-get autoremove deborphan Does not remove all pac

Re: installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Bannister
ng this package needs apache2 > package . how can i install dependencies which are mentioned in control > file. i need to install all packages which are required and mentioned in > control file at the time of deb package installation automatically . This question is best asked on the debian-

Re: installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
s package needs apache2 > package . how can i install dependencies which are mentioned in control > file. i need to install all packages which are required and mentioned in > control file at the time of deb package installation automatically . http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-rel

installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread karunakar medamoni
Hello. This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the error when i install that package. it saying this package needs apache2 package . how can i install dependencies which are mentioned in

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/09/11 00:00, Bruno Martins wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello mate. Thanks for your quick response. So, to avoid this dependency "problems" in the future, I should make a clean installation of Debian, without

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:02:39 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the > evolution package. (...) This topic comes from time to time :-) http://www.google.es/search?q=Form+wizard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&c

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Bruno Martins
nstalled > (before gnome-desktop-environment). > > Also consider:- > # apt-get -s remove evolution > /root/remove_evolution > so that you've got a reference in case you have problems building your > custom gnome. > This will show you dependencies and suggested packages:- > h

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
evolution > /root/remove_evolution so that you've got a reference in case you have problems building your custom gnome. This will show you dependencies and suggested packages:- http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome This doesn't happen on Debian-based distributions such as Ub

Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Bruno Martins
Hello guys. Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the evolution package. root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and

Re: linux-image-2.6.39 not booting due to older package (not in list of dependencies!)

2011-08-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > now, i've discussed this on the bugtracker and there clearly isn't - > and really shouldn't be - a listed debian dependency between > linux-image-2.6.39 kernel and a userspace library.  however, there > clearly *is* a dependenc

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