dselect question
Hi! I did not 'select' any package in dselect, but when I select 'install' carelessly. It shows a bunch of packages I need to install. How do I solve this issue? Is it because I am using 'stable' release with some testing packages? Best regards, Terence ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect question
Hi! I did not 'select' any package in dselect. But when I select 'install' carelessly, there is a bunch of packages requested to be installed. Why? Is it because I am using 'stable' with some 'testing' packages? How do I solve this issue? Best regards, Terence ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect question
On one of my woody machines, when I do an Update, and then go into Request Packages, all teh new packages are presented to me at the top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem to figure out how to change dselect to make it so. What am I missing? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect question
On 13-Apr-2002 stan wrote: On one of my woody machines, when I do an Update, and then go into Request Packages, all teh new packages are presented to me at the top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem to figure out how to change dselect to make it so. What am I missing? does the other machine list the same package tree? Perhaps it is pointing at potato or some other non changing tree. Look at the help, the other possibility is you changed the sort order by hitting the wrong key combo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect question
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:16:49 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my woody machines, when I do an Update, and then go into Request Packages, all teh new packages are presented to me at the top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem to figure out how to change dselect to make it so. dselect, right? You probably hit a few keys by mistake and changed the order of the packages on the screen. See dselect's help on its keys, it's easy to re-establish the newer-first order. Can't tell you which keys to press 'cause I've stopped using dselect a long time ago... Good luck. -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect question
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try and install every time I run dselect even though the original package has been deselected. Oops, you should have pressed 'R' or 'X' instead of 'Enter'. Now you've committed all the selections you made with dselect's interactive package selections management screen. Is there a file somewhere that I can purge that has all the pending for install packages so I can just wipe it out and start fresh again? How about marking the relevant packages for removal or purge in the dselect package selections list? It sounds intuitive enough to me that if you can select packages in dselect, then you can also unselect them. Admittedly, you'll have to look them up in the list, but that is not so hard, and you can play with the 'o' and 'O' keys for sort options if you like. And if you press '?', there is help at any time. When you are finished altering the selections, simply run install. Generally, walking the installed packages list in dselect once in a while and removing packages you don't see a need for, is a good thing. If you happen to try to remove something unexpectedly important, and a large list of packages is marked for subsequent removal in the dependency resolution screen, you can simply undo the removal request and all of the consequences, by pressing 'R' and 'Enter' (or 'Q' or 'X'). Try it. This way, you quickly get to know what packages are on your system for what reason. Cheers, Joost
dselect question
I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try and install every time I run dselect even though the original package has been deselected. Is there a file somewhere that I can purge that has all the pending for install packages so I can just wipe it out and start fresh again? -- Lance Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (817) 289-2800 x1142 - voicemail/fax __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com
Re: dselect question
Hi There Lance, I think one of the best ways to solve this problem would be with the 'dpkg --set-selections' command. Get all the names of the packages you want to have it quit trying to install. Then you can the above command on a command line and it will be waiting for your entries, there will be no command prompt at this point. Type in the name of the first package on your list, then hit tab, then type purge, then hit enter. Then keep doing that for all the problem packages until you're done, then hit CTRL-D to finish it and get back your command prompt. An example follows... c243491-a:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep zgv xzgvinstall zgv install c243491-a:~# dpkg --set-selections zgv purge c243491-a:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep zgv xzgvinstall zgv purge c243491-a:~# HTH, Jimmy Richards On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try and install every time I run dselect even though the original package has been deselected. Is there a file somewhere that I can purge that has all the pending for install packages so I can just wipe it out and start fresh again? -- Lance Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (817) 289-2800 x1142 - voicemail/fax __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect question
Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JD When I enter dselect and go to [I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages, JD dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do JD I go about flushing the list of packages that dselect believes should be JD installed ? Go to the [S]elect screen, and change those packages' status from install to remove or purge (with - or _, respectively). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
dselect question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I enter dselect and go to [I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages, dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do I go about flushing the list of packages that dselect believes should be installed ? I seldom use dselect. It's always apt-get for me. But from time to time I like to browse available packages and install via dselect, but I don't feel like installing the extra 59 packages, especially since it's stuff I never asked for (telnetd for instance). Thanks ! Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.71b Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOcbSOpiq2Gf2udcfEQKUhwCgle4Nvp5BhhvT0keyHe9NOi8/CmUAn2Vo ESRm48sX2nDtm3IZM+8A2MFx =3yXj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box
Hello, Just a quick Dselect question. I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I have installed now over to the new box ? .. so that when i run dselect on the new box .. all the packages that i now have will be selected .. and it will just start downloading and installing them etc. Im going to just use loadlin / deb install from dos partition method to install deb on the new box .. get the base up and running and then setup ppp and then hopefully just download all the packages from the net. One thing i just thought about is that apt may not come with the base package so i may need to install from the .deb package seperately first. Everything needed for PPP / internet connectivity comes with the base doesnt it? Im also using ipfwadm / maasq'ing etc .. so think i'll be sticking with 2.0.38 for the initial install .. and move to 2.2 when all my current ipfwadm masq'ing commands are worked out in ipchains language =) Thanks in advance. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony Green
Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Green) wrote: Just a quick Dselect question. I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I have installed now over to the new box ? .. so that when i run dselect on the new box .. all the packages that i now have will be selected .. and it will just start downloading and installing them etc. You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg --set-selections' on the new one. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box
Quoth Colin Watson, You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg --set-selections' on the new one. I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself without much luck... What on earth are you supposed to do after --set-selections? Is the idea that you can then go into dselect and just hit [i]nstall? My impression is that you can't use apt with it (which may be wrong), and there doesn't seem to be any command you can pass to dpkg without going through dselect (which I try and avoid). If someone could fill me in on this, it'd make my backups/resores a hell of a lot easier. Sorry again for the newbie question! cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) - pgpIKDJJdXb1j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box
* Damon Muller | | Quoth Colin Watson, | You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and | 'dpkg | --set-selections' on the new one. | | I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not | really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it | once | or twice myself without much luck... | | What on earth are you supposed to do after --set-selections? dpkg --get-selections will write package database info to standard out. you will have to do dpkg --get-selections nice_file on the old box, then copy `nice_file' to the new box (via scp, for instance) and do dpkg --set-selections nice_file there. you can then run dselect or apt-get to your heart's content. -- Q: Is C an acronym? A: Yes, it stands for ``C''. It's another of those funky recursive acronyms. -- Peter Seebach, The C Infrequently Asked Questions List
small dselect question
Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. Thanks, Jeff
Re: small dselect question
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:46:02PM -0600, jh wrote: Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. You *could* do that. But, it would be easier to use apt-get. For instance: $ apt-get update # Get the latest package listing $ apt-get -s install bind # Tell me what would be done if # installing bind $ apt-get install bind# Actually install/upgrade package -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: small dselect question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, jh wrote: Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. That's not necessary. Unless there's a new version of the package available, dselect will realize that nothing needs to be done for the package and therefore will do nothing with it. If there is a new version available, [with the default layout] it will show up at the top under a heading Updated packages, and unless you take action (hold, for example) it will download and install the new version for you. This is generally considered a good thing. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOA6nir7M/9WKZLW5AQHjKwP7BSWmb1a9N3xAuAILvQ9RUKVe7TJiAnfM xb6aSoF6g9DBu9oYiFmj+OCVGSiyTipl24Vn6U3OvNmav6Q/s119oC9ByMCnZX4J VJmOUu5RLp9WYnpEZQIVHo2KmXIU8ZwU7dILgeEOl25JIAzPw7RRupf5eOLONiPP v1gSzpa/oZs= =z1lJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: small dselect question AND X Window problem
Hi, You might not realize yet that CASE matters on Linux/Unix.. /etc/X11/XF86Config I think it can be in a couple other places, and in fact I got hosed this way a few times, as I had files in two places and couldn't figure out why the changes I made were not being seen. I think the apt-get install mechanism only works over the net, which I can't use. I get the impression from your previous posts that you use a different computer to get to the internet. (I use the same computer, different OS!) If I want to install just one (or even more) packages from the CD I run dselect. After satisfying the questions about ACCESS and UPDATE, I choose (the next default) SELECT. I immediately hit spacebar and return, to get to the main list. Then a v to get into verbose mode. Then an uppercase) I, to get the whole screen. I then navigate down to the package(s) I want with the down arrow. I use a + which selects the file for installation (if it isn't already). Assuming no dependency problems, after you have selected the package(s) you want, hit return. The next steps are INSTALL, then CONFIGURE, then REMOVE (won't do anything unless you used - to ask for packahes to be removed), then QUIT. It will walk you through these last steps by default. Good Luck, John From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: small dselect question Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:46:02 -0600 Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: small dselect question
jh wrote: Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Wouldn't that mean that should a newer and better version of any ='ed file be available you would not install it? Sounds like a bad side effect. If you know you just want to install one thing and dont want to wait for dselect to run for an hour, try dpkg. Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690
Re: small dselect question
Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. If you know exactly where the .deb package is, you can skip making it have to go through all the programsGo to the directory where the .deb file is, and type: dpkg -i debianpackagefilename.deb and it should install the package. If it comes up with errors, then I reccmmend using dselect, otherwise, it should be fine. HTH, Brant __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
dselect question
Hi all, I use dselect for (un)installation of Debian Slink/Potao and I wonder how the message dpkg -warning: while removing directoty `/usr/doc/' not empty ...' can be avoided i.e., how can I obtain that doc directories of removed packages will be removed too? Thanks, Alberto Maurizi
Dselect question
Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for installation, but not yet installed? I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system. I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to find out which have astrixes and which do not. If displaying only the files I want installed is not an option how do i clear the entire list of selected packages without scrolling through one by one to unselect them? I've already tried clearing the choices with Q and X and R and D and ctrl-C. When I re-run dselect and do a search for those I know I selected, they are still selected. Obviously I'm entering the wrong commands... I just don't know what the correct keystrokes are. Thanks Andre'
Re: Dselect question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for installation, but not yet installed? I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system. I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to find out which have astrixes and which do not. If displaying only the files I want installed is not an option how do i clear the entire list of selected packages without scrolling through one by one to unselect them? i don't know of a way to get dselect to show only the non-installed packages selected for install. But, this command will show them to you: grep Status: install ok not-installed -B1 /var/lib/dpkg/status To clear the entire list of selected packages, go to the line --- Available packages (not currently installed) --- and press '_'. This will deselect all not-currently-installed packages. You can do something similar to the --- Up to date installed packages --- line to make sure none will be removed. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8BWA77M/9WKZLW5AQGr8wQAnzGPxCs5pzhtmouk30yn4BCu82lr+/GV hMCwa1RDNtOMgGcinCZu2PtR9RN4DR8QaPtDKbDyVNcXIidxm0PWin2cuYfke7xk YpP3qyy15Mt8s3foIETYZCGcNMRABbv0ypcpqZJcpYb+jauCvTDiQIYEzrkI2uXH BvFef3wCfkg= =btXJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
initial install using ftp dselect question
Greetings, I'm trying to get Debian 2.1 (slink) installed on my system, via ftp. I get to the point where I successfully download all the packages I selected. However, they aren't installed. I find them all in /var/cache/apt/archives... Dselect finishes up at this poing, (runs thru config remove) but doesn't install the files. Am I missing something? Do I have to actually go into the archive dir and do a dpkg -I *??? Suggestions very much appreciated. Thanks, Francis
Re: initial install using ftp dselect question
Francis J. Bruening wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to get Debian 2.1 (slink) installed on my system, via ftp. Are you using the 'apt method' with dselect. I can't remember whether apt is in slink (I've been running potato for a long time now). If it is, get the apt deb and install it, then set it up for use with dselect. I get to the point where I successfully download all the packages I selected. However, they aren't installed. I find them all in /var/cache/apt/archives... If an error occurs during the download or the install process, dselect/apt will not delete the deb files just downloaded. There must be an error occuring somewhere (or something is very broken :-( ). When you run 'install' from dselect watch the messages on the screen; see if there are any error messages printed out. Dselect finishes up at this poing, (runs thru config remove) but doesn't install the files. Am I missing something? Do I have to actually go into the archive dir and do a dpkg -I *??? Suggestions very much appreciated. Thanks, Francis -- Ed C.
installing slink and dselect question
So, I installed slink on my machine, and got to the dselect phase. I read the docs and ran dselect, and got to the Install phase, whereupon it took about 20 hours to download all the selected packages, which seems about right. I got back to the machine, and it was back to the dselect main menu, with Quit dselect highlighted. So I did. And none of the packages were installed. Thinking I did something wrong, I ran dselect again, this time going into the Select phase for some time and removing large packages that I didn't want and adding packages that I did want, and then on to the Install phase, and it went just like before, with nothing installed. I found the directory where it downloaded all the package files, they all seem to be there. What did I do wrong? I had no problems or error messages from dselect, except for a hand full of non-essential packages that failed to download because, over 20-odd hours, some resets and timeouts will occur. No big deal there. Can I install the packages that were downloaded using some other tool now? Has this happened to anyone else? a
Re: dselect question
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the access part I selected Harddrive and I put in the directory where I put the packages.gz file it said it found it but then after I selected the packages I wanted it gave me a ton of errors When you say you put the packages.gz file this indicates that you've gotten the file from a CD or from an FTP site, etc. The location of the .deb packages is relative to the location of the packages.gz file, so if you've copied/moved this file, you'll need to point dselect to where the packages.gz file came from (or close thereby; I'm not sure of the exact relationship). The packages.gz file is merely a table of contents for the many .deb packages. Pointing dselect to a packages.gz file won't do you much good unless you can also get to the actual .deb packages. Let's make this easier; what tools do you have? Do you have a Debian CD, or do you have network access? If you have network access, probably the easiest way to install is to tell dselect to use the ftp method. It'll ask for a site to connect to; although ftp.debian.org is pretty busy, it's the one I always choose, simply because as a relative beginner myself I take the smooth road; also since I'm in the US, it seems to be the closest site to me that I know of. Then it'll ask about the path; mine is simply: debian I answer the next couple of questions as stable; then main, contrib, and non-free. Then I'd do an Update, then go into Select and mark the packages I want to install, then Install, then Quit. If you don't have network access but you have a CD, you do a similar sort of thing, but you tell it to use the CD access; I've only tried this once and, being a newbie, didn't have a whole lot of success, but I'm sure if you have a CD and you reply to the list instead of just to me you'll get someone's help who knows what they're doing on this issue. If you don't have either, you're getting into territory I'm not at all familiar with. But just as you can't install Netscape on a Win95 box if you don't have access to the Netscape installer via network or CD, or etc, you can't install Debian packages unless you have access to those packages via network or CD or etc. As I said, just having the packages.gz file only gives you the listing of available packages; it doesn't actually give you the packages. So let us know what kind of tools you have (network access, Debian CD, etc), and we'll go from there. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought
Re: Dselect question again
WuArMy490 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WAM then it asks me what partition I want but then it goes filesystem WAM type and I pick msdos, but in an msdos filesystem the change all WAM the - and the _ to ~1 and so on Try using a vfat filesystem instead; it's just like an msdos filesystem except that it understands the Win95 filename weirdness. -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_/
dselect question
When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want ArmY
Re: dselect question
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 07:07:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need them if You plan to compile the sources Yourself, or for interest -- Cheers Peter
Re: dselect question
When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need them if You plan to compile the sources Yourself, or for interest Ok I thought so, but when I go into dselect and I choose to install the packages from my hard disk and I pick the packages I want then I click install it goes Skipping package name.deb Quitting because too many errors how do I fix this?
Re: dselect question
ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says Package: whatever.deb and so on but then it says filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so dselect runs correctly? thanks Army
Re: dselect question
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need them if You plan to compile the sources Yourself, or for interest Ok I thought so, but when I go into dselect and I choose to install the packages from my hard disk and I pick the packages I want then I click install it goes Skipping package name.deb Quitting because too many errors how do I fix this? I *think* this happens when dselect can't find the file. I'm a bit confused. Are you installing from your hard drive or CD or ftp or what? It sounds like maybe you made a typo, etc when you were in the 0 [A]ccess option of dselect. But this is more a guess than a definitive answer. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
Re: dselect question
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says Package: whatever.deb and so on but then it says filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so dselect runs correctly? thanks Army If I understand what you're asking, yes. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
Dselect question again
Ok when I go into [A]ccess I do Harddisk then it asks me what partition I want but then it goes filesystem type and I pick msdos, but in an msdos filesystem the change all the - and the _ to ~1 and so on so do I have to change all my .deb file packages to whatever~1.deb for it to work? thanks Army
Dselect Question
Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. I updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the program name at all. The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Thanks in advance. Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
Yo- The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Download the .deb packages you want from the web (i.e. Pine and Pico) and type (as root): dpkg -i (your .deb file goes here) This should unpack and install any package you want. -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461 Pgr: 817.901.0255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. I updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the program name at all. The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 10:20 AM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote: Download the .deb packages you want from the web (i.e. Pine and Pico) and type (as root): dpkg -i (your .deb file goes here) This should unpack and install any package you want. -Ian Ian, Thanks for the info. Will try it tonight. Appreciate your quick reply ___ Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob Bob, I tried to get the package list for non-free, but it kept giving me an error. I don't think I was in the right directory to update the non-free package list. I tried to FTP to the site, but could only find the bo -stable package list. Where would I set the dselect to point to the non-free package list. No problems with the stable package list. What I mean is what directory is the non-free list in. I know how to set up the Access on dselect, just didn't know which directory to point to. Thanks for the reply. ___ Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: I tried to get the package list for non-free, but it kept giving me an error. I don't think I was in the right directory to update the non-free package list. I tried to FTP to the site, but could only find the bo -stable package list. Where would I set the dselect to point to the non-free package list. No problems with the stable package list. What I mean is what directory is the non-free list in. I know how to set up the Access on dselect, just didn't know which directory to point to. Relative to /debian, when asked Enter space seperated list of distributions to get, you should respond: stable non-free contrib HTH, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 10:09 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Relative to /debian, when asked Enter space seperated list of distributions to get, you should respond: stable non-free contrib HTH, Bob Bob, Thanks, that's the one's I needed. I kept trying to put the full path name and kept getting errors. I hadn't updated any other the non-stable lists since I had installed debian, this last weekend. So this will help me a lot. Thanks again for the info and reply. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect question
I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped here. Is there a way to find this out ahead of time? Yes, there is a way. dselect uses dpkg to find out about dependencies. With the dpkg --info package.deb command you will get a lot of info, among which a line starting with `Depends'. This line will tell you what the package depends on. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect question
is there a way to make dselect look at a directory and install .deb files from it. Say I download a few files to /usr/local/debian. How can I get dselect to give me the option of installing these new deb files? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect question
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote: is there a way to make dselect look at a directory and install .deb files from it. Say I download a few files to /usr/local/debian. How can I get dselect to give me the option of installing these new deb files? dselect is a front end for 'dpkg' just use it, ie, dpkg -i package.deb for example. *** dA' Phucilage Phactory*Yesturday upon the stair,* *I met a guy who wasn't there,* *He wasn't there again today, * [EMAIL PROTECTED]*I think he's from the CIA. * *** author unknown -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect question
Is it a must that you use dselect? Try just typing: dpkg -i /usr/local/debian/* Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote: is there a way to make dselect look at a directory and install .deb files from it. Say I download a few files to /usr/local/debian. How can I get dselect to give me the option of installing these new deb files? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect question
I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped here. Is there a way to find this out ahead of time? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect question
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped here. Is there a way to find this out ahead of time? I've done this, though as I'm not on my debian system, and it is a little while since I've used dselect, so I may not be quite accurate. Within access methods, you select the main, contrib, non-free sections. You can also select a local archive as well, and get dselect to automatically generate a packages file for it. In case it makes a difference, I NFS mounted a debian mirror (local to my university), and told dselect to use a mounted filesystem (ie I didn't get dselect to do the NFS mounting for me). I then had a directory (/root/debian-local I think) which contained various local packages. I'm not sure whether this will work for the FTP access method. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect question
Is there a way for dselect's ftp mode to be more verbose? I would like some type of download counter so I know I am downloading something and not locked up or dumped off. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect question
I open another virtual console and run du /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/ at intervals and watch it grow. If a large file is being downloaded, I do ls -l on the file /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/file_dir/file_name, or on the file_dir itself, in yet another console. Running ifconfig in another console will give a running count on packets received, errors, etc. Any one of these will tell you if your are locked up or dumped off. Bob On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:09:45 -0400 Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Is there a way for dselect's ftp mode to be more verbose? I would like some type of download counter so I know I am downloading something and not locked up or dumped off. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Jun 3, Alexander Stavitsky wrote On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch to turn this off. I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There No, what I have experienced is dselect trying to find all files mentioned in Packages and stop at the point where the package is missing. I'll try it again with when I have time and report if it is really happens. What access method are you using? (ISTR you saying one of the default methods, but otherwise you can ignore this :) I've just had a look, and they quite definitely use the command `dpkg -iGROEB mountpoint'. If you like, you can try this on a subtree with the command: dpkg -iGROEB /nfs-imports/debian1/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin or whatever it is on your machine; you will then find that only the packages in the admin directory are looked at. E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I only smile in the dark, My only comfort is the night gone black. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch to turn this off. Symlinks I have had NO problems with. I have a set of deb-packages on a zipdrive which I mount as vfat on /zipdrv and have a symlink to /zipdrv/debpack from /usr/local/ ... It works just great! /fax -- +- Fredrik Ax -+-- Snailmail --+- Where to reach me on the net -+ |\\|// | Kämnärsvägen 13 E:202 | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | @ @ | S-226 46 LUND, SWEDEN | WWW: http://www.df.lth.se/~fax | +-oOO-(_)-OOo--+---++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch to turn this off. I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There are a few reasons for this, but mostly I think it was easier to write! It's very annoying over NFS, where although it's not too slow a link, going through all the files can easily take half an hour or more. It also has other problems; for instance, if a package in the normal tree won't install, it won't even get as far as trying the non-free and contrib trees; think about (say) libmagick ... :( In unstable (but not, I'm afraid, in frozen/stable, cos I wasn't quite quick enough) is a package called dpkg-mountable, which finds the files in a different way, avoiding this time-consuming scan, as well as doing things like logging of the install. If you need it, you could install it manually, but it's mostly only for convenience; unless you're fairly sure what you're doing, you'd probably do better to steer clear of it, especially as unstable is going over to use libc6 fairly soon. Neither of these two methods, though, should have any problem with symlinks. E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I sing of you in my demented songs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch to turn this off. I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There No, what I have experienced is dselect trying to find all files mentioned in Packages and stop at the point where the package is missing. I'll try it again with when I have time and report if it is really happens. -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I sing of you in my demented songs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DSELECT question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site is so often busy. Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing whole sections with =? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to be, to don't download it, leave it alone? It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the creation of the dselect program and package system in the first place. What am I missing? Curt- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== =YK4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. This is the first I have heard of this. (Not being argumentative at all here) Thanks for the report. Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site is so often busy. Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing whole sections with =? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to be, to don't download it, leave it alone? The =, for those not familiar with dselect, is the symbol displayed under status for the packages that are on Hold. The key that does this is H. I have always been disapointed by the fact that this key (and for the most part all the other functionality) does not work on the heading All Packages as this would be very helpful. To cut a long story short, yes, putting packages on hold is the best way to get dselect to take no action. I do this all the time when I want just a few of the packages to be installed and don't want to upgrade anything that I don't have to. Dselect's dependency checking is usually adequated to the task, so you get told what additional packages may be needed for the ones you want to install and function properly It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the creation of the dselect program and package system in the first place. I think that this may be an artifact of the ftp method. What am I missing? The tools that will come out of the Deity development project ;-) 'Till then you seem to have a firm grasp on the problem. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are not correctly interpreting what you see.) Those packages which are already installed will show up in the uptodate categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed show up as available with the mark __ if never installed or ___ if installed but subsequently purged. I can't recall the marking for packages which are installed but for which a newer version is available, since I have updated everything where that applied, but it was obvious from the dselect display. When you select a package for installation, it will show --* To look at a verbose listing in dselect, hit the 'v' key. When you go to the 'install' action of dselect, you will be given a listing of those files which it wants to get. It is working as expected for me, at least. Bob On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site is so often busy. Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing whole sections with =? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to be, to don't download it, leave it alone? It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the creation of the dselect program and package system in the first place. What am I missing? Curt- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== =YK4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
I don't disagree with you at all. However, case in point: *** Perl 5.x shows up in the dselect list. Perl 5.xxx is then downloaded and installed. Again. What might I have misconfigured? Curt- In reply to 2 Jun message from Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are not correctly interpreting what you see.) Those packages which are already installed will show up in the uptodate categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed show up as available with the mark __ if never installed or ___ if installed but subsequently purged. I can't recall the marking for packages which are installed but for which a newer version is available, since I have updated everything where that applied, but it was obvious from the dselect display. When you select a package for installation, it will show --* To look at a verbose listing in dselect, hit the 'v' key. When you go to the 'install' action of dselect, you will be given a listing of those files which it wants to get. It is working as expected for me, at least. Bob On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site is so often busy. Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing whole sections with =? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to be, to don't download it, leave it alone? It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the creation of the dselect program and package system in the first place. What am I missing? Curt- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== =YK4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --- Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Priss.com The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith ISBN:0-812-53875-7 Available from Laissez Faire Books http://www.lfb.org/ 1.800.326.0996 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I had a slightly broken CD-ROM distribution and the only way around was to copy the whole distribution onto the hard drive. Symlinks from hd to cdrom were ignored and dselect wouldn't work if some package is missing. Perhaps this is already fixed, I've used stable(1.4.0.7)dpkg back then. --stuff deleted-- What am I missing? Curt- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== =YK4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian dselect question (solved)
Thanks! Problem solved. Trying the manual approach didn't work (dselect said the contrib directory didn't exist), but the soft links did work: mkdir /install ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8 /install/stable ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/contrib /install/contrib Robin There are two ways I can think of to work around the problem. 1) dselect will first ask you if you have a straightforward copy of the distribution available, and it will tell you to answer `none' if not. Answer none and answer all the following questions. 2) Make these links --- RD in Internet video and speech recognition using C++ and Java http://jumpsite.com San Diego, CA 619-457-1159 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian dselect question
Hi. In October I got Debian on the CD-ROM from Dale Scheetz, but had some problems getting it to work with my CD-ROM. I got sidetracked and have only recently gotten back to trying to finish installing Debian. I now have the base system installed but have a problem installing any packages. When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file. I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386, and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Robin --- RD in Internet video and speech recogition using C++ and Java http://jumpsite.com San Diego, CA 619-457-1159 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian dselect question
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file. I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386, and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian dselect question
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: ... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. I was just wondering if you had mounted your CD-rom before you ran dselect? /\ | Frisco Rose, | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.eosc.osshe.edu/~rosef/ | || | Webmaster, Secretary, | | CORE - Computer Operators and Researchers at Eastern | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| || | Webmaster | | SAO - Student Activities Office| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | A closed mind is a wonderful thing to waste. | \/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian dselect question
No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices. Sounds logical, but dselect still didn't work. The screen output is something like this: |- | Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] __/dev/sonycd__ | ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A | | All directory names should be entered relative to the root of the CD-ROM. | | I would like to know where on the CD-ROM the top level of the Debian | distribution is - this will usually contain the Packages-Master file. | | . | . [more text] | . | | Distribution top level? [none] __/cdrom/Debian-1.1.8__ | /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/stable/binary-i386 does not exist | | . | . [repeat of above] | . |- My input has the underlines around it. By the way, I also tried mounting the CD-ROM drive first, before loading dselect. How do I convince dselect I don't need the non-existant 'stable' directory on my CD-ROM? Robin On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file. I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386, and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. --- RD in Internet video and speech recogition using C++ and Java http://jumpsite.com San Diego, CA 619-457-1159 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
