Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jul 19, 2004, at 1:25, frankieh wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get.

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread frankieh
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get. But as I said, I am not fluent when it c

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a > short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* > suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get. But as I said, I > am not fluent when it comes to

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
Avi Schwartz wrote: On Jul 18, 2004, at 10:54, Eric Jackson wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jul 18, 2004, at 10:54, Eric Jackson wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Jackson
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman Try this. Mandrake 10.X carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linu

[newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://ww

Re: [newbie] APT for Mandrake

2004-04-25 Thread Rory
I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've been off playing with Debian Sarge for a couple of days and although there are a number of things I prefer about MDK, I must say that I was completely seduced by Apt, along with the GUI, Synaptic. Much better than urpmi and MDK's GUI tools. Typ

[newbie] APT for Mandrake

2004-04-25 Thread Keith Powell
I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it working. It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't. Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then "disappeared". If so, where is the repository, please? Even if it doe

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-17 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:59 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |IT doesn't format anything, i.e. it keeps what you've got including | installed software "younger" or even "strange" to the distrib you're | upgrading. Even kernel differences show up and "lilo" (the start up | screen) will be configured

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 22:51, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > If so what do I loose? IT doesn't format anything, i.e. it keeps what you've got including installed software "younger" or even "strange" to the distrib you're upgrading. Even kernel differences show up and "lilo" (the start up screen)

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:07 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |On Tuesday 16 September 2003 20:38, Curt Tresenriter wrote: |> A few other problems that seem unrelated have me about to reinstall |> the whole shebang. | |Sounds a fair mess to me:o) |Actually it reeks of KDE dependencies. |I wouldn't rei

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 20:38, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > A few other problems that seem unrelated have me about to reinstall the > whole shebang. Sounds a fair mess to me:o) Actually it reeks of KDE dependencies. I wouldn't reinstall that quickly tho.an "upgrade" is a wonderfull way to c

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:05 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: |On Tuesday 16 September 2003 18:40, Curt Tresenriter wrote: |> Well urpmi is giving me so much trouble I thought I'd give apt a |> try - but then I found Tex isn't maintaining the repository any |> more. | |I'm sorry I didn't follow yo

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 18:40, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > Well urpmi is giving me so much trouble I thought I'd give apt a try > - but then I found Tex isn't maintaining the repository any more. I'm sorry I didn't follow your thread on that. Better said I did, then it got messy (the threa

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:06 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: | |When you've got urpmi why use apt-get? |The best won!:o) | |Good luck, |HarM Well urpmi is giving me so much trouble I thought I'd give apt a try - but then I found Tex isn't maintaining the repository any more. Due to (supposed)

[newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Has anyone using apt-get with mandrake? -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apt for lnux

2003-09-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 17:59, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > Has anyone using apt-get with mandrake? When you've got urpmi why use apt-get? The best won!:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apt question

2003-07-01 Thread Xuer
Thers is a file /etc/apt/vendors.list, you just backup and remove it so apt can work properly. But I can't use apt to install from src.rpm,for the rpm-src source sux. If anyone know how to make it work, let me know, thanks. :) Hi When I try to use apt I get this: $ apt-cache search wmweather

Re: [newbie] APT

2003-06-14 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > > Is the Ibiblio APT repository no longer available? I have been trying to > > access it for some time, but all I get is a 404 error. > > > > On an associated note, is the PLF source no longe

Re: [newbie] APT

2003-06-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > Is the Ibiblio APT repository no longer available? I have been trying to > access it for some time, but all I get is a 404 error. > > On an associated note, is the PLF source no longer available? I can't > access that either. > > Many thanks > >

[newbie] apt-get update gives strange message

2003-01-26 Thread ThinKer
In trying to keep my system up to date... as root I typed "apt-get upgrade -f" This is the message I got. Can someone please explain this to me? --begin error-- Reading Package Lists... Collecting File Provides... Building Dependency Tree... Correcting dependencies... Done The following package

[newbie] apt-get produces puzzling output ..

2003-01-24 Thread ThinKer
Hello all. As root, I ran 'apt-get upgrade' and received the following output. --begin output -- Reading Package Lists... Collecting File Provides... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages have been kept back XFree86-devel XFree86-libs XFree86-xfs arts aspell aspell-en gnome-spell

[newbie] apt sources

2002-12-15 Thread Michel Clasquin
I just installed texstar's apt and synaptic. I like the concept, but the iblio.org server is so sl o o o o w .. Can anyone point me to an alternative site or two? TIA -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

Re: [newbie] apt

2002-01-29 Thread suka_at
There is urpmi for Mandrake. A simple "urpmi ogle_gui" would give you the same result bye suka Am Mit, 2002-01-30 um 04.14 schrieb Walter Logeman: > > Hi, > > saw this on http://freshrpms.net/ > > 02 Jan 2002 - Happy new year to everyone! And as a special gift > to all of you R

[newbie] apt

2002-01-29 Thread Walter Logeman
Hi, saw this on http://freshrpms.net/ 02 Jan 2002 - Happy new year to everyone! And as a special gift to all of you Red Hat Linux users, I bring you at last my packages apt-get-able ;-) All you need to do is to install the "apt" package found here, run "apt-g

Re: [newbie] apt-get?

2001-10-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:03:57 +0200, Søren Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I don't know whether I should install Mandrake or Debian :) Do > Mandrake have something like apt-get, to install packages, and upgrade > the hole system? > > Come one, give me some buzzwords, why should I pref

[newbie] apt-get?

2001-10-03 Thread Søren Neigaard
Hi I don't know whether I should install Mandrake or Debian :) Do Mandrake have something like apt-get, to install packages, and upgrade the hole system? Come one, give me some buzzwords, why should I prefer mandrake? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -