Hi All,
As of yesterday I now get this whenever I try to do any apt-get or dpkg
operation (install, remove, source, etc):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~
#apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be
This is most likely caused by the sources you are using. You can try
deleting your apt cache in /var/cache/apt/archives (i think) and then
update again, or try using a different source. I was having this
problem for a few weeks a while back and as soon as I changed sources
it all started
Hey.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:27, James Gray wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~
#apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
nfs-common nfs-kernel-server php4 php4-dev php4-imap
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:03 pm, Peter Hardy wrote:
Hey.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:27, James Gray wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~
#apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:56, James Gray wrote:
Mr Hardy! You are a life saver!!
*blush*
OK, you got me on the right track - so just incase anyone else has a similar
problem in the future here's how I fixed it:
1. get another machine with the same sources.list file (I'm actually running
G'day...
james I now have apt/dpkg working again! YAY!! Try doing THAT with a screwed RPM
james database etc! :P meta tag=flamesuit content=on
I love both debian and RH - sorry, still have to bite...
`rpm --rebuild-db`
All the best...
Mike
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Network Administrator
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:15 pm, Peter Hardy wrote:
**SNIPPED**
I'd be a little concerned about how this could have happened, now. Has
the /var partition been fsck'ed lately? Could also be time to run a
badblocks check over it.
Now that you mention it, yes - this machine went belly-up about a
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
I'm very out of touch with the way of the Red Hat, but is there
seriously that much difference between rpm's installed packages db and
dpkg's?
rpm uses Berkeley DB format in /var/lib/rpm; there were rpm bugs in 7.3 and
8.0 releases of Red Hat which
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day...
james I now have apt/dpkg working again! YAY!! Try doing THAT with a
screwed RPM
james database etc! :P meta tag=flamesuit content=on
I love both debian and RH - sorry, still have to bite...
`rpm --rebuild-db`
All the
Hi All,
If you have a RH 6.2 machine, can you use apt-rpm to upgrade it to RH
9.0? or can you only update it to the latest 6.2 packages?
If you can upgrade it to 9.0, is there anything you need to watch out
for that may kill the system?
Cheers,
Adam.
PS. Yes I am in Perth now, but I just
-install it if the upgrade
doesn't.
Regards,
Jill.
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From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 2:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] apt-rpm
Hi All,
If you have a RH 6.2 machine, can you use apt-rpm to upgrade it to RH
9.0? or can
Joel Heenan wrote:
Thanks to Luke's advice I have installed apt-get and synaptic and after a
few hitches everything is running very smoothly I love it. Just a quick
question, I'm running redhat 7.2 will upgrades only be available as long as
redhat keeps releasing them or are they built by users?
Thanks to Luke's advice I have installed apt-get and synaptic and after a
few hitches everything is running very smoothly I love it. Just a quick
question, I'm running redhat 7.2 will upgrades only be available as long as
redhat keeps releasing them or are they built by users?
Is there any
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:35:00AM +1000, Joel Heenan wrote:
Is there any pressing reason why I should upgrade considering I have a
slowish system (433 celeron) and I do not want any extra bloat.
Probably not _pressing_ but I found 9 to be faster than 7.x.
8 was a bit slow though.
Matt
--
Just thought I'd let people know that the solution to my problem with
rpm/apt-get complaining that:
# rpm -i freetype-2.0.3-7.i386.rpm
file /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.0.1 from install of freetype-2.0.3-7 conflicts
with file from package freetype2-2.0.3-1
had a very simple solution.
At 6:39 pm, Saturday, June 28 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mumbled:
I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of
Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager.
apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on
Jason Gunthorpe, and others.
On 29 Jun, Steve Kowalik wrote:
I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of
Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager.
apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on
Jason Gunthorpe, and others.
Sorry, I should
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 Jun, Steve Kowalik wrote:
I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of
Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager.
apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on
Jason Gunthorpe, and
On 29 Jun, Chris Deigan wrote:
Wasn't that a conectiva idea?
I think it was hosted by Connectiva, and I think Alfredo is employed by
Connectiva. Yet he included a RH port, for which I am intensely
grateful.
luke
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On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
Yeah, the cl is probably an indication of it having come from connectiva
or somewhere, and that's probably the problem - connectiva will have
packaged freetype{,2} differently -- they'll include some files they
shouldn't have (IMHO). So, grab the
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
Yeah, the cl is probably an indication of it having come from connectiva
or somewhere, and that's probably the problem - connectiva will have
packaged freetype{,2} differently -- they'll include some
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
Hrmm. So I suppose you have 3 choices:
* Upgrade to newer redhat
* Find some src.rpms from somewhere and rebuild them (the mandrake ones
would probably work fine in this regard)
If I'm unlucky, that will lead me to have to upgrade the whole
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
Hrmm. So I suppose you have 3 choices:
* Upgrade to newer redhat
* Find some src.rpms from somewhere and rebuild them (the mandrake ones
would probably work fine in this regard)
If
I seem to have gotten myself into an rpm dependency loop on my RH 7.2
system.
Last weekend I forcibly installed a bunch of packages I shouldn't have,
and broke X. :-( Via careful rpm -e use, and switching over to use the
RPM port of apt-get, I managed to get X working again.
But I really wanted
-On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to have gotten myself into an rpm dependency loop on my RH 7.2
system.
Last weekend I forcibly installed a bunch of packages I shouldn't have,
and broke X. :-( Via careful rpm -e use, and switching over to use the
RPM port of
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
wait a moment. Apt won't grock dependencies that aren't packaged AFAIK.
So, installing libttf from source won't help it. apt should have found
that dependency if you just asked it to install ghostscript.
No, for the same reason I'm having a trouble now:
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote:
wait a moment. Apt won't grock dependencies that aren't packaged AFAIK.
So, installing libttf from source won't help it. apt should have found
that dependency if you just asked it to install
I have tried cutting the source list down to one line, and it still does
the same thing. Besides that my desktop machine has more sources than
you could poke a stick at and it never segfaults..!!
Any other ideas??
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:24, Peter Chubb wrote:
Adam == Adam Hewitt [EMAIL
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:07:20PM +1000, Adam Hewitt wrote:
I have tried cutting the source list down to one line, and it still does
the same thing. Besides that my desktop machine has more sources than
you could poke a stick at and it never segfaults..!!
Any other ideas??
strace apt-get
Hi All,
I am having some serious problems with apt on one of my servers...here
is the output:
rogue:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Hit http://192.168.1.1 stable/main Packages
Hit http://192.168.1.1 stable/main Release
Hit http://192.168.1.1 stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://192.168.1.1
Adam == Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam Hi All, I am having some serious problems with apt on one of my
Adam servers...here is the output:
I find that apt-get segfaults if you have too many sources in
/etc/apt/sources.list --- try cutting them down.
Peter c
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This one time, at band camp, John Ferlito wrote:
a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every
2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are
managing 5+ machines. It's a bit of a pain.
b) pay for the luxury of not having to do the above
c) install
This one time, at band camp, Stewart wrote:
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having said that, Mandrake's urpmi is a big leap in the right
direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of apt-get/dpkg/dselect
in both operation and configuration.
now i'm
This one time, at band camp, Tim White wrote:
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, current, from some admins at Duke
University. Google will show you the path.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Mike MacCana
Of course, the ability of those packages to integrate with the rest of the
system is fairly limited if they're turned into dumb archives by a program
such as alien, which, when run on an rpm based system, will turn rpm into
Hrm, a few typos. Keep in mind, I'm er, drunk :^)
Mike
Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I
Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years
Specialists in Unix/Linux,
-Original Message-
From: Del [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 3:45 PM
To: James Gray; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or
have
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RedHat/RPM - I used RedHat since version 4.2 through to 6.x then ditched it in
favour of Debian. RPM's methods for resolving dependency problems are less than
spectacular and sometimes impossible without forcing. Having said that,
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:31:03AM +1100, Mike MacCana wrote:
up2date -u
To update the entire system
up2date -i (package)
To install a package, and any dependencies it requires.
Its been this way since 6.0
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website
quote who=Mike MacCana
I find most people who bitch and moan about Red Hat (or Linux, as RPM is
the standard packaging format for that OS).
This is inaccurate, and you've said it before.
To clarify, the RPM format was chosen as the standard format for LSB
packages, rather than as the standard
John Ferlito wrote:
...snip.
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every
2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are
managing 5+ machines. It's a bit of a pain.
b) pay for the
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having said that, Mandrake's urpmi is a big leap in the right
direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of apt-get/dpkg/dselect
in both operation and configuration.
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please
-cache, graphical package managers (storm) etc etc.
Brett
: -Original Message-
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
: Stewart
: Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 1:45 PM
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately
:
:
:
: On Thursday, March 27
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:44:36PM +1100, Stewart wrote:
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly
what the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work
together? to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one
rpm one. :-)
dpkg: the
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately
:
:
:
: On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM,
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Having said that, Mandrake's urpmi is a big leap in the right
: direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of
: apt-get/dpkg
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly
what the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work
together? to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one
rpm one. :-)
.deb is the standard debian package file (equiv is .rpm file)
dpkg
neat things
like apt-cache, graphical package managers (storm) etc etc.
Brett
: -Original Message-
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
: Stewart
: Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 1:45 PM
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately
quote who=Tim White
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
Probably better to look at apt-rpm repositories, such as freshrpms.net. The
GStreamer guys distribute their own packages this way, as do many others.
Not sure the RHN stuff is built to do this in such a
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:22:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Tim White
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
Probably better to look at apt-rpm repositories, such as
freshrpms.net. The GStreamer guys distribute their own packages this
way, as do many others.
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:18, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Mike MacCana
I find most people who bitch and moan about Red Hat (or Linux, as RPM is
the standard packaging format for that OS).
This is inaccurate, and you've said it before.
No it is not. I think you've just chosen to interpret
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:46, Terry Collins wrote:
John Ferlito wrote:
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every
2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are
managing 5+ machines.
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:06, Brett Fenton wrote:
apt is cutting out a step. in the simplest case with an rpm you might
visit rpmfind.net for example, locate your package, download and then
install.
Er, no. That's not the simplest case.
up2date -i package
apt is great, but as we've said
quote who=Mike MacCana
Of course, the ability of those packages to integrate with the rest of the
system is fairly limited if they're turned into dumb archives by a program
such as alien, which, when run on an rpm based system, will turn rpm into
effectively dumb archives in dpkg format -
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
current, as I mentioned earlier.
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Hi All,
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian packages
gone pear shaped lately?? Seems people (including myself) have had problems doing
stuff like an apt-get dist-upgrade - even in Woody. Latest glitch was last night
when I upgraded KDE to 3.1.1 on
The backported packages are NOT officially supported in Debian, you use
them at your own risk.
Also I have two words for you line wrapping...
Adam.
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or
have some Debian packages gone pear shaped lately?? ...
... Dead Rat/RPM is the exceptionman does that blow.
Not a particularly helpful comment unless you're deliberately
asking for another distro
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian
packages gone pear shaped lately??
Not hugely for me, using stable and unstable on a few archs. Unstable has
warts every now and then, but nothing major.
Latest glitch was last night when I
This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote:
I was wondering if there was any resolution on an earlier post about
using apt-get to retrieve and install rpms?
I didn't read the earlier post, but the short answer is you can use apt-rpm
to install RPMs on RPM based systems, such as Red Hat,
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7 Mar, Mike MacCana wrote:
Its possible, people have done it before.
But personally I'd rather just do an upgrade, and I don't see what there
is to `fix'. An hour or two scheduled maintenance once a year isn't a
big deal for me.
On 7 Mar, Mike MacCana wrote:
Its possible, people have done it before.
But personally I'd rather just do an upgrade, and I don't see what there
is to `fix'. An hour or two scheduled maintenance once a year isn't a
big deal for me. Remember, Red Hat aim to keep binary compatibility
On 5 Mar, James Gregory wrote:
Louis I googled for this apt-rpm and I did not see a version that runs for
red Hat 7.1. Or any version will work ??
apt-rpm sounds great!
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat-7.1/apt/
Ah ha, so it actually works with 7.2 too, I see.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5 Mar, James Gregory wrote:
Louis I googled for this apt-rpm and I did not see a version that runs for
red Hat 7.1. Or any version will work ??
apt-rpm sounds great!
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat-7.1/apt/
Ah ha, so it actually works
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:21, Jeff Allison wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't know that!
# rpm -qa | grep raidtools
raidtools-0.90-24
raidtools-0.90-23
You can erase one or both of these packages. man rpm.
I hate to think what it'll say when it sees what my (working) XFree86
Hi All,
I have tried over the last few weeks to install various packages from
unstable and although some packages download, most of them give me the
following errors:
Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libc6-dev 2.3.1-11
404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main locales
Adam == Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam Hi All, I have tried over the last few weeks to install various
Adam packages from unstable and although some packages download, most
Adam of them give me the following errors:
This happens when the mirror is not quite up-to-date. The Packages
-
From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 8:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] apt failure
Hi All,
I have tried over the last few weeks to install various packages from
unstable and although some packages download, most of them give me
Hi all,
Using Debian stable.
I have downloaded vim sources via 'apt-get source vim' and wanted
to get all the dependencies to build it so I used 'apt-get build-dep vim'
but I got this...
# apt-get build-dep vim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some broken
I was trying to setup hotplug a few weeks ago to connect my ipaq to my
linux host which i eventually gave up on and uninstalled hotplug etc.
apt worked fine since then up until today when i went to install another
package. Now whenever i try to install or remove any package with apt or
dpkg i get
At 8:00 pm, Monday, October 28 2002, Anthony Lucre mumbled:
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libvncauth0_3.3.3r2-21_i386.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `hotplug' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 8:00 pm, Monday, October 28 2002, Anthony Lucre mumbled:
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libvncauth0_3.3.3r2-21_i386.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `hotplug' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while
At Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:56:14 +1000 (EST), Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, David wrote:
I decided to do:
apt-get remove postfix
and for some reason, apt decided that it would also remove apache!
To prevent these sorts of problems when removing MTAs, add ssmtp+ to your
I decided to do:
apt-get remove postfix
and for some reason, apt decided that it would also remove apache!
Can anyone explain the logic of this? How should I have made it remove
ONLY postfix. The message from apt-get listed several postfix specific
packages that were to be removed, and
anyone know either a list of apt repositories for woody in Oz or know of any
on the primus network??
I've tried mirror.aarnet and planetmirror and even pacific.net.au and all
three keep timing out.. at this stage some of the OS mirrors are as quick as
ones here in Oz
Thanks,
Dan.
--
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 22:43, Dan Treacy wrote:
anyone know either a list of apt repositories for woody in Oz or know of any
on the primus network??
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.html
I've tried mirror.aarnet and planetmirror and even pacific.net.au and all
three keep
Note: this is being re-sent after bouncing. AFB.
Hi, I have successfully installed 'task-ximian-gnome'
but when I try 'apt-get install evolution' I consistently end up with
a complete
or near 100% download (time and size depending on line congestion)and
the message
Failed to
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +, Herbert Xu wrote:
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah they have an rpm_4.0.2-10_alpha.deb !
Thanks - I'll pull it down tonight when my Alpha connects.
This package will not work for you unless you're using testing or unstable.
So you need to
Hey I have the same question as Mike Lake but i can't see the answer for
him:
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2001/April/msg00732.html
THanks,
Dave
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Hi,
I have rpm 3.0.3 on my Debian box and want to update to 4.0
(to alien a RH7 mozilla binary for the Alpha).
But apt-get update rpm does not update it as it thinks thats the most
recent - pooh.
Does anyone know what section rpm might be in?
Mike
--
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said:
Hey I have the same question as Mike Lake but i can't see the answer for
him:
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2001/April/msg00732.html
This is 'cause no-one answered it ;)
Mike Lake wrote:
The percent will rapidly go from 0 to 99% as it
This one time, at band camp, Mike Lake said:
I have rpm 3.0.3 on my Debian box and want to update to 4.0
(to alien a RH7 mozilla binary for the Alpha).
Which version are you running? I have sid on this machine, and
apt-cache show rpm tells me that the current version is 4.0.2-9.
You might be
Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Mike Lake said:
I have rpm 3.0.3 on my Debian box and want to update to 4.0
(to alien a RH7 mozilla binary for the Alpha).
Which version are you running? I have sid on this machine, and
apt-cache show rpm tells me that the current
This one time, at band camp, Debian User Adam Bogacki,,, said:
Thanks, it worked. I immediately updated my distribution and downloaded
mozilla 0.9.
How do I get rid of the handle Debian User ... ? Which file do I edit ?
You saying you're trying not to advertise your Debianness? :)
I see
Thanks, it worked. I immediately updated my distribution and downloaded
mozilla 0.9.
How do I get rid of the handle Debian User ... ? Which file do I edit ?
Adam Bogacki.
John Ferlito wrote:
What does your
/etc/apt/sources.list look like? Mine is something like this
# PI Unstable
quote who=Debian User Adam Bogacki,,,
How do I get rid of the handle Debian User ... ? Which file do I edit ?
There'll be a blank field in your Mozilla mail preferences somewhere. :)
Fill that in.
- Jeff
--
From my observation, when it comes to porting Linux to a particular
* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
quote who=Debian User Adam Bogacki,,,
How do I get rid of the handle Debian User ... ? Which file do I edit ?
There'll be a blank field in your Mozilla mail preferences somewhere. :)
Fill that in.
And the GECOS field of your password
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Debian User Adam Bogacki,,, wrote:
How do I get rid of the handle Debian User ... ? Which file do I edit ?
/etc/passwd.
- Matt
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Hi,
when I use apt-get it works successfully getting stuff off the
installation CD-ROM's but not when it comes to the internet,
eg. from http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9/
I remember that during the install, the program asked me for the base
URL of the Debian distribution.
I did
What does your
/etc/apt/sources.list look like? Mine is something like this
# PI Unstable
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# UnStable
deb-src
Dear Sluggers,
I need to burn a cd containing a mirror of this instalation so that I can
duplicate it on another machine without connections.
So far with apt-move I've got a /mirrors directory, and in each node, for
instance
/mirrors/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/
there is a
Hi,
When I apt-get update and it says...
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages [55.1kB]
99% [Waiting for file]
The percent will rapidly go from 0 to 99% as it downloads info but then
after it gets to
99% it will wait for some time. Mostly it's this
I sucked down Sid the other night, and along the way one file
failed to download, I was using 'apt-get -d' so I could monitor
the update later. So I grabbed this file, and a couple of others
on a 'doze box at work and put them on a floppy, with the intention
of using 'apt-cache add'. But when I
--8-
E:The package cache file is corrupted.
--8-
Did you hear that?
Hear what?
I think it's the sound of all the apt-get fans running for cover! ;-)
Martin Visser
Technology Consultant - Compaq
Steven downing was once rumoured to have said:
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This seems (to me!) to imply some kind of lack of memory (MMap??)
So I made sure nothing much was running and tried again, but every
subsequent apt-cache add came up with..
E:The package cache file is corrupted.
Which made
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Steven downing was once rumoured to have said:
[Details snipped]
E:The package cache file is corrupted.
Which made me think the .deb was corrupted via Windows
stoopidnes (It might still be I guess), but closer reading leads
me to think the
Steven downing wrote:
'Apt-get update' updates the list of available packages yeah?
And I was thinking that the packages cache file
(/var/cache/apt/packages.bin??), was an index of files which had
been downloaded from a network source (and possibly not
yet installed on the system)
Read
Well it appears that Connectiva 6.0 is now out and "Conectiva is a
Linux distribution with full support for apt-get with RPMs."
So it looks like apt is achieving cross-distribution success too
now.
Anyone on large bandwidth care to check it out:
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/
I'm not game to try this, as the file seems pretty cryptic to me.
I have tried this:
incursion:/home/rob# dpkg -r --force-confold mysql-server
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Hello all,
I have tried to remove mysql-server, but dpkg said
that there was an error, and i should reinstall it,
then try again to remove it. When I do, i get:
(Reading database ... 44897 files and directories
currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mysql-server 3.23.25-4 (using
ok basically when you remove any debian package theres a script called
prerm that gets run. In this case it's probably trying to shutdown the
database or something. But for some reason it's seg faulting which is
not a good sign ( Is this the bit where I get to bag out mysql and carry
on about
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