APT, DSELECT E DPKG. Não consigo usar ....

2003-04-06 Thread Gustavo V. Goulart
/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure line 4. Não consigo mais usar o apt-get nem o dselect nem o dpkg. Se eu tentar usar debconf ele tb me retorna o mesmo erro O que tem de errado ai ? Alguem poderia me dar uma

Re: dselect vs dpkg (wasRe: Unidentified subject!)

2002-12-23 Thread Edi STOJICEVIC
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:04:06 +0100 OLIVIER LAMBERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] dselect n'est rien d'autre qu'un front-end (interface) graphique à dpkg... oui je suis au courant :) Il est cependant assez utile/léger/pratique... Personellement, je préfère l'utilisation d'apt Mais ma

Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread wells
So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from source? Moreover, what's the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
-get, dselect, dpkg-- what do these do and how are they different? apt-get is a tool to grab packages and resolve dependencies automagically, dselect is a frontend that allows you browsing the list of packages, etc... dpkg is the package manager itself you may want to read the Apt HOWTO, which can

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from source? If you know the package name - apt-get install package. Search for with apt-cache search. From the frontends dselect is the best, and for dist-upgrades only use dselect, not

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 13:19, Joerg Jaspert wrote: wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from source? If you know the package name - apt-get install package. Search for with apt-cache search. To clarify for wells: apt-cache

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread dave mallery
the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg-- what do these do and how are they different? Opinions, thoughts, insights, methodologies appreciated. hi i just did the same thing potato cds, then after commenting out the cd lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and adding all the debian and ximian sites

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dselect is a nice front end if you can live with its idiosyncracies wrt key commands. It does not take long to learn them. Just 2 or 3 times use of dselect. No prob. :) Another nice front end is feta, available with /etc/apt/sources.list line Hmm,

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
? Moreover, what's the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg-- what do these do and how are they different? Opinions, thoughts, insights, methodologies appreciated. apt-get are apt-cache are shell interface to APT dselect is matured menu driven interface to APT. aptitude... are new ones. We tend

dselect or dpkg? packages.gz-file

2000-11-20 Thread Christian Eckert
Hello debian-users, I am a linux novice andI am running 2.0.36 on my old first generation's pentium. I always used successfully "dselect" with the option multi-cd for to install some deb-packages of my distribution. Now I like to install a downloadeddeb.package or one from another cd. I

dselect or dpkg? packages.gz-file

2000-11-20 Thread Allan F. Caetano
Christian == Christian Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Hello debian-users, Christian I am a linux novice and I am running 2.0.36 on my old first generation's pentium. Christian I always used successfully dselect with the option multi-cd for to install some deb-packages

Re: dselect or dpkg? packages.gz-file

2000-11-20 Thread David Z. Maze
Christian Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CE I always used successfully dselect with the option multi-cd for CE to install some deb-packages of my distribution. Now I like to CE install a downloaded deb.package or one from another cd. I tried CE (with option mounted) and dselect wants to know

update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Bernhard Aichinger
Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect and during the update procedure dpkg reports that i should convert may Berkeley 1.85 database to 2.0, because the two version are not compatible! This massage was displayed during the installation procedure of perl (update from perl 5.004 to

RE: update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Without wanting to be patronising, are you aware of apt-get? -Original Message- From: Bernhard Aichinger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect

dselect and dpkg parse error in the status file

2000-07-31 Thread Dimitris Dracopoulos
Hi, I am not able to run dselect and dpkg any more (I think this happened after a crash). Dselect starts but does not let me select any files and exits (same problem with dpkg -i), both giving the following error message: dpkg: parse error, in file /var/lib/dpkg/status near line 22784 package

Re: dselect and dpkg parse error in the status file

2000-07-31 Thread Edward C. Lang
DD == Dimitris Dracopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DD Hi, DD I am not able to run dselect and dpkg any more (I think this DD happened after a crash). DD Dselect starts but does not let me select any files and exits DD (same problem with dpkg -i), both giving the following

dselect or dpkg bug?

1999-04-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
When installing emacs/xemacs v.19 and 20 (wanted to try both versions) dselect installation of emacs20 modules exited repeatedly with the message that something had not been configured yet, but when trying to configure it, the problem remained. Finally, I wanted to remove all of the emacs/xemacs20

Re: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: the hierarchy is: dpkg apt dselect currently. dselect may disappear. Please, don't! :-) I know this is a ugly beast, but I learned to love it, and it will take some time for me to get used to any other. I not in the way

Someone please help me understand dselect ot Dpkg

1999-03-12 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi - I want to install X and I everthing I do with dpkg and dselect will not work, I get an error every time. I downloaded Debian so I cannot acsess all of the packages directly. Someone please help. Thanks in advance -James

Re: Someone please help me understand dselect ot Dpkg

1999-03-12 Thread shaleh
Hi - I want to install X and I everthing I do with dpkg and dselect will not work, I get an error every time. I downloaded Debian so I cannot acsess all of the packages directly. Someone please help. We can help when we know the problem. I get errors is like saying my car makes

Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-10 Thread Tam
Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front end (Apt 3 for Potato

RE: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Mar-99 Tam wrote: Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front

Re: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tam wrote: Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front end (Apt 3

Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-09 Thread Tam Ma
Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front end (Apt 3 for Potato

Re: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Tam Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tam I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, Tam and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: TamApt (part 1), the new backend to dselect TamApt (part 2), the new commandline Tam I know Apt will soon have a front

No dselect or dpkg

1999-02-24 Thread Chen Xu
Kent, Thanks for your reply. I believe you have to be logged in as root to run dselect/dpkg. If you are and you still can't run it, something is wrong beyond my knowledge level. Yes, I logged in as _root_, just no such programs installed as 'dselect' or 'dpkg' Actually when I did

locally mounted files and dselect or dpkg?

1998-07-09 Thread Young, Ed
files which I downloaded to install. Some that were required, I already have installed. My questions are: Should I use dselect or dpkg or apt (apt not yet installed)? Since I've previously installed other packages via the dselect ftp method, will this break my update status table(s

Re: locally mounted files and dselect or dpkg?

1998-07-09 Thread servis
Ed, Dselect is just a front end to dpkg. So dselect knows everything dpkg does. So just execute: dpkg --install package1.deb package2.deb .. and you should be set. If you don't have a package file that is needed then dpkg will tell you when it installs the packages. This is the way

Re: dselect and dpkg

1996-05-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
On 15 May 1996 12:15:39 +0200, Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Kai Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's Kai unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first, Kai but I have already learned a few things and I think I should be Kai able to

dselect and dpkg

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Grossjohann
to a local disk which I then take home with me to install Debian from. Now, I have already done this and it seems that the Packages* files and the contents of the directories are out of sync. Are the Packages* files used at all by dpkg or dselect? If so, can I just create a correct version