Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. Yeah, I

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 11:23, charlie derr wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console.

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. (i'm

gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly catch something I haven't) my working assumption at this point is that last night either

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 09:15, charlie derr wrote: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly catch

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Charlie, In this kind of situation, I would # apt-get --purge remove the problematic package(s), then # apt-get update and try again. as Daniel and Florian have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my problem is with libxml2 being completely borken at the moment (I think) and aptitude is

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. (i'm still in the same