Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:25:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:00:38 -0800 > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What tools you use for Debian archive access and what dependency > > problem you encounter are orthogonal problem. It is just an > > impression y

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:42:24 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ aptitude install bleh > > instead of > > $ apt-get install bleh > > Also, aptitude doesn't ignore Suggests and Recommends, like apt-get > does. > And for others not yet familiar with aptitude, you can use it to brows

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:24:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So > > that is in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok,

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:37:05AM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > I'll look at mplayer, thanks! Christian has lots of stuff of 'dubious legality' on his site, most of which is also built for stable. Have a poke around, I'm sure there's some other stuff that will interest you. Another good place t

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi Mpiktas, > You can install mplayer for playing AVI files. Just add to sources.list > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > and do > > apt-cache get mplayer-{your_architecture} > > apt-cache search mplayer > > will show architectures available. > > > Or you can download mplayer sources

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrade 244 > > packages, install 26 and remove 34 and leave 3 not upgraded. I

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles dependen

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrad

dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi there! I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles de