Michael Jager wrote:
> Not all the packages were installed. Now, whenever I try to [I]nstall from
> dselect, I get this message:
>
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i
Hi all,
Sorry about the cross-post, but I'm not really sure which list I should be
posting to.
I have a disk set which I downloaded for 2.2_r3 stable a few months ago.
Last night, I reinstalled from this set, then configured apt to use both
stable/main and testing/main (testing because I need per
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Dne st 28. listopad 2001 12:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a):
> Hello!
>
> I have a problem! I did "By Mistake" (C) select a few packages with
> dselect and they depended on a bunch of other packages.. so now dselect
> wants to install all those packages
Hello!
I have a problem! I did "By Mistake" (C) select a few packages with dselect
and they depended on a bunch of other packages.. so now dselect wants to
install all those packages, and i dont i dont want to install ANY of the
packages that i selected.. how can i "undo" those selections?
/TRiPZ
I can't remember what happened before the problem happened, but here's the
summary of the problem:
dselect (as well as dpkg) won't install or remove any packages. when i try to
install or remove any package, an error message "...libgnomeui32 - device not
configured." dselect then retries the en
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> > If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do
> > not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages,
> > put everything on hold first and then unhold the few.
>
> Hm, I yust wanna u
On 12/07/01 22:38 +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
[...]
> Hm, I yust wanna update few debs day by day. If I understand it the right
> way, I can make an 'apt-get update' and then install my wanted deb with
> "apt-get [deb]. Right?
[...]
# apt-get install emacs20
will get emacs20 deb and requi
moin moin Joost!
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:13:44 +0200 you were able to write:
[...]
> If you want to update from ftp, uncomment all but the ftp uris.
OK.
> If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do
> not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:04:55PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> moin moin Joost!
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write:
>
> [...]
> > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1
> > > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/mai
Am 09. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
Grüßle Martin,
> Ok, and what should I do if I wanna install from an ftp-server? Put the
> entry again there? It's very uncofortable, isn't it?
Yes, it's a pain. That's why I came up with those other configs for apt.
The reason you're seeing th
moin moin Joost!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write:
[...]
> > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1
> > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> > non-US/non-free non-free
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main con
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 07:48:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
> But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
> a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-suppo
moin moin der.hans!
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:26:25 -0700 (MST) you were able to write:
> Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
>
> > I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some
> > proggies. But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that
> > doesn't installe
Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so:
> I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
> But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
> a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support.
>
> Nevertheless, now I want
Hi folks,
I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-support.
Nevertheless, now I wanted to install some packages from the cds, but
dsele
Hello,
When I run dselect and select update, apt runs through my sources.list
updating its Contents, and then I get the following error:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 7311 package
`blt':
`Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error in version: version
strin
As a followup to my last email, I believe the problem is in the way
the version number of the package blt-dev is written in the depends of
many other packages. In /var/cache/apt/available, the Depends: lines
that contain blt-dev always list the version number as "2.4[ij]-1 ".
dpkg is barfing on th
I am using unstable, and someone told me to run a dist-upgrade because of some
problems i had.
I did a apt-get update and then upgrade first, but there were some unmet
dependencies and
apt told me to run apt-get -f install. but if I do this I get a very weird
error message, never saw that
before
"Javier Sieben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I
> would use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with
> libesd0. That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the
> alsa part. And then dselect follow the depe
Hello:
I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I would
use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with libesd0.
That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the alsa part. And then
dselect follow the dependencies and displays that gtop and others pac
The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver
recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and
perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect
silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything
which had a direct or in
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:07:02AM -0500, paul wrote:
> Please read this earlier thread (on this list):
> "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..."
>
> I hope this answers your questions.
Thanx for the pointer!
Please read this earlier thread (on this list):
"BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..."
I hope this answers your questions.
-ptw-
For some reason dselect wants to remove an awful lot of packages from
my potato system: at, cron, debconf, exim, mailx, apparently all of
gnome, and a bunch of others. When I run apt-get it seems perfectly
happy with everything that's installed, and nothing seems to be flagged
for removal in dsele
I've just tried to load some packages using apt from a file entry (file:
/cdrom etc.)and got the following error message:
mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
busy
Unable to mount /dev/cdrom
Dselect exits without installing packages. Using the umount command
On 16-Aug-99 Paul Miller wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>>
>> I ran dselect in order to add a few packages and to remove some I do not
>> need, like CVS. Now, dselect insists on removing some packages I never
>> asked it to remove and the worst part is that I cannot seem to fix this
>> with dselect by
Pollywog wrote:
>
> I ran dselect in order to add a few packages and to remove some I do not
> need, like CVS. Now, dselect insists on removing some packages I never
> asked it to remove and the worst part is that I cannot seem to fix this
> with dselect by changing "remove" to "install".
>
Afte
I ran dselect in order to add a few packages and to remove some I do not
need, like CVS. Now, dselect insists on removing some packages I never
asked it to remove and the worst part is that I cannot seem to fix this
with dselect by changing "remove" to "install".
Is there a text file somewhere th
Christian Kruse wrote:
> When i am about to install Debian.
>
> I have 8 GB, so i choose to install the whole package.
>
> When i start, i´m asked to insert DISC 2.It installs
>
> And it asks me to insert DISC 1. When i insert it, it says:
>
> I need "Debian 1/4", but i´ve found ""
>
> What do
When i am about to install Debian.
I have 8 GB, so i choose to install the whole package.
When i start, i´m asked to insert DISC 2.It installs
And it asks me to insert DISC 1. When i insert it, it says:
I need "Debian 1/4", but i´ve found ""
What do i do?
Are you sure they exist on the CD?
--
Eric G. Miller
Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 from a
> LinuxCentral official Debian CD distribution. When the installation starts
> dselect, it indicates it cannot find the 'Packages.cd' file for non-free,
> non
I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 from a
LinuxCentral official Debian CD distribution. When the installation starts
dselect, it indicates it cannot find the 'Packages.cd' file for non-free,
non-US, and local. I have specified the following:
Non-free: /dists/s
You wrote this:
>I just installed debian 2.1 slink for the first time; dselect doesn't seem
>to be working. Possible explanations: I didn't read the readme on the 4 CDs
>I have, where it says
>
>"If you wish to use the multicd installation method, as is the default for
>CD-based installs, you sho
On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, Erik Sandblom wrote:
>
> "If you wish to use the multicd installation method, as is the default for
> CD-based installs, you should be careful to insert the LAST BINARY CD of
> your set when you start"
>
> I have the 4-cd set but I put in CD 1. Did I break something in doin
Hello, I'm new to the list =)
I just installed debian 2.1 slink for the first time; dselect doesn't seem
to be working. Possible explanations: I didn't read the readme on the 4 CDs
I have, where it says
"If you wish to use the multicd installation method, as is the default for
CD-based installs
today I try to see if there's someting to install but running dselect
with apt I found this in the select zone of dselect:
I don't understand why this packages are in Obsolete.
In fact I find the downloaded Packages list is empty.
Waht have I to do ?
my source_list :
deb ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pu
[Please disable the HTML. This is mail, not the web]
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 17:04:33 +0100, Mans Joling wrote:
>When I use dselect and fillin in apt acquistion
>[1]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian he still says ftp_connect : Could
>not connect.
Can you ping ftp.de.debian.org?
Can you c
Dear Sir
I have just installed debian 2.0.36 slink on
hda5.
I have make a connection with my
'"ISP".
When I use dselect and fillin in apt acquistion
ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian he
still says ftp_connect : Could not connect.
What could be wrong.
Any help would be
appriciated
Mans Joling
Thanks I have the packages installed:) I had forgotten a while back I was
trying to figure out how to get kde off the extras cd and I was messing around
with the access menu then and must have screwed it up so that I couldn't access
the
binary cd.
Thanks,
Kent
David Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 09
David Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:44:24 CST, KTB wrote:
> > Hi, I'm attempting my first kernel compiling and was reading in the
> > Debian User's Guide that an easy way to do this is to install,
> > kernel-source and kernel-package. I have also heard there is an X
> > configuration to
Hi, I'm attempting my first kernel compiling and was reading in the
Debian User's Guide that an easy way to do this is to install,
kernel-source and kernel-package. I have also heard there is an X
configuration tool for this also. Anyway I tried installing the kernel
packages with dselect. I hav
If you have an IDE CDROM, watch out for BIOS messages
during boot time and see if the CD is installed as
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave. These are the device
names to use:
Primary Master: /dev/hda (Very unlikey; it should be your Hard disk)
Primary Slave: /dev/hdb
Secondary Master: /dev/hdc
Sec
> I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk.
> Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method
> I mark the CD-ROM - method
> dselect ask me then, what the "device block name" is.
>
> What the # shall I write here? Nothing seems to work.
Hmm /dev/hdc is probably a good gu
Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post
I'm a new debian-user (or ties to be...)
I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk.
Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method
I mark the CD-ROM - method
dselect ask me then, what the "device block name" is.
What the # shall I write here? No
Allens wrote:
> When I installed from Cheep Bites I couldn't create the XF86Config file,
> although the setup carried on. The only slight problem I have had since
> is I can't run XF86Setup. (What a shame, as I would run xf86config
> anyway)
> (It mucks up my screen putting everything in
>
When I installed from Cheep Bites I couldn't create the XF86Config file,
although the setup carried on. The only slight problem I have had since
is I can't run XF86Setup. (What a shame, as I would run xf86config
anyway)
(It mucks up my screen putting everything in
This
So
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Reply-To:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone seen this problem with Debian 2.0 (from Cheapbytes) before ?
> It does the initial install fine and the reboots and asks you what type of
> install you want eg Scientific workstation etc and then runs deselect. When it
>
Reply-To:
Hi
Has anyone seen this problem with Debian 2.0 (from Cheapbytes) before ?
It does the initial install fine and the reboots and asks you what type of
install you want eg Scientific workstation etc and then runs deselect. When it
gets to installing the packages all goes fine until it sta
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:21:06PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote:
>
> I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a
> machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I
> can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I
> remove the
I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a
machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I
can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I
remove the lock?
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Thanks. Your advice was right on target.
JEB
> > I also get a strange message when I connect by either a remote telnet
> > connection or a console. The message is:
> >
> > configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB' (notify
> > administrator)
>
> The handling of /etc/issue was chang
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded from the bo to the hamm versions. I've encountered two
> problems that I don't know how to fix.
>
> One is that dselect via ftp stopped working. As explained in the
> HOW-TO, I've installed the required dpkg upgrades in the order
> l
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains:
: /usr/lib/perl 5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local /lib/site_perl .) at
: /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm line 241 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
: at /usr/l
I upgraded from the bo to the hamm versions. I've encountered two
problems that I don't know how to fix.
One is that dselect via ftp stopped working. As explained in the
HOW-TO, I've installed the required dpkg upgrades in the order
listed. And I then used the 'ftp' method to upgrade many of
On 27-Oct-97 Lukas Eppler wrote:
On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> If I recall properly, I had this problem at one point and solved by
> upgrading to a newer dpkg-ftp. Try downloading the newest version
> from hamm with a regular ftp program and installing with `dpkg -i'.
David Puryear wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then I
> pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main,
> non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when I do Install I get this
> messages:
> Processing st
On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then
> > I
> > pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main,
> > non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when
David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then I
> pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main,
> non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when I do Install I get this
> messages:
> Processi
Hi all,
With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then I
pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main,
non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when I do Install I get this
messages:
Processing status file...
Processing Package files.
When I run dselect I can select an item but I can not de-select it if I
change my mind. It just beeps at me. This is before I install it (I am
just window shopping so to speak).
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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
> Net::FTP.Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405
>
I think thats because ftp.debian.org is down (I am guessing thats who your
using). Try a mirror site. :)
Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
,, /
( ">
_
Hello all,
I am trying to install a Debian 1.3 system on my friend's computer.
However, I encountered a serious problem which I do not know how to solve.
There is no problem of installation. I setup ppp correctly and able to
dail in to ISP. But when I try to upgrade the system using ftp of dselec
Quite a while ago I selected netscape 3.01 to be installed.
When I got the netscape tar.gz file, I got the gold package which was
not what the .deb file was trying to install it was trying to do the
non gold 3.01. Since I had the tar file and didn't feel like getting
the other one I ins
I have three debian machines here. One of them has a whole lot of
packages I downloaded in a directory. I start up NFS on this machine,
run dselect on another. Use the NFS method, I point the main
directory to be mounted as the directory containing the packages.
I then say the various directories
Excerpts from mail: 9-Nov-96 Re: dselect problem by Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rafael Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to
> >install a .deb packages vi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rafael Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to
>install a .deb packages via ftp, I receive the following message:
>
>Processing status file...
>Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/method
Hi,
I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to
install a .deb packages via ftp, I receive the following message:
Processing status file...
Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install line
75,
chunk 6898
Please, What can I do to solve this
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