Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.08.2013 16:10, John Hasler a écrit : berenger.morel writes: The easier solution I can see is to make an empty package with the name you want, and then use dpkg to install it. The easy solution is to use aptitude's "-R" option. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA Since m

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread John Hasler
berenger.morel writes: > The easier solution I can see is to make an empty package with the > name you want, and then use dpkg to install it. The easy solution is to use aptitude's "-R" option. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread berenger . morel
Thanks for the suggestion; I followed the command given by Andrew and it worked: I read that message, and yes it should work, but I think that on the first update you will make with apt-get or aptitude, the system may say your software is broken. I never tried that command, so I can not be ver

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 16/08/13 15:07, François Patte wrote: > > > > Message original > Sujet: Re: post-install questions > Date :Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:06:17 +0200 > De : François Patte > Pour :berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread François Patte
Message original Sujet: Re: post-install questions Date : Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:06:17 +0200 De :François Patte Pour : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org Le 16/08/2013 14:54, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : > Le 11.08.2013 23:53, François Patte a écrit : >

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.08.2013 23:53, François Patte a écrit : See attachment: auctex package is only a lisp package for emacs and texlive is absolutely not needed The dependency problem is only a packager craze! The easier solution I can see is to make an empty package with the name you want, and then use

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/08/2013 20:21, Stephen Powell a écrit : > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: >> >> I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few >> questions: >> 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dep

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread John Hasler
François Patte wrote: > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies  with > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > of TeX packages which I don't want. Auctex does not depend on any Tex packages. It merely recommends them. Just use "--no-insta

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 11 August 2013 17:49:36 François Patte wrote: > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies  with > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > of TeX packages which I don't want. > > I know, auctex is made for TeX, but I install texlive di

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:21:33PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: [...] > > > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies with > > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > > of TeX

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: > > I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few questions: > > 1- For some reason the root account was not activated (I, maybe, missed > some step); so I activated it following the docs, but there are two > problems:

post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few questions: 1- For some reason the root account was not activated (I, maybe, missed some step); so I activated it following the docs, but there are two problems: a) root can login t