Re: Package list problem
Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synaptic and the error message was that the gnustep-back-0.11 that terminal.app depends on is not available, and that is the reason why it can't be installed. Synaptic told me what I've written on the previous email. I ran those searches and no output resulted. The packages are not installed. Pardon my ignorance, but I usually upgrade packages without paying attention to the distribution they fit in. My system is currently a lenny/sid. How do I go about bringing it to a single distribution (the latest unstable is the preferred)? Daniel Santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On 09/14/2007 07:02 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synaptic and the error message was that the gnustep-back-0.11 that terminal.app depends on is not available, and that is the reason why it can't be installed. Synaptic told me what I've written on the previous email. I ran those searches and no output resulted. The packages are not installed. Pardon my ignorance, but I usually upgrade packages without paying attention to the distribution they fit in. My system is currently a lenny/sid. How do I go about bringing it to a single distribution (the latest unstable is the preferred)? Daniel Santos Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list only has unstable sources in it. Then do aptitude update In aptitude ncurses interface, you can find out what packages don't belong in unstable by going into the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Another option is to run aptitude search '~i!~Astable' . Don't uninstall everything you find using those methods. They just speed up the research of finding out what to remove. After you've removed any packages that clearly block your upgrade to Sid, you can do the traditional distribution upgrade procedure: aptitude upgrade aptitude dist-upgrade This page describes the old upgrade procedure using apt-get: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html You'll probably want to use aptitude instead, but the ideas are the same. After you've upgraded to Sid, you'll probably want to reinstall some of the Lenny programs that had to be removed during the upgrade. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : Did you try to 'apt-get update' first? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Package list problem
Yes. In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains there because some other package depends on it. Probably it is hiding the same package on one of the repositories configured. Is there some documentation on the package list format and how can I search it for the packages that keep the phantom package in the list ? Daniel Santos Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : Did you try to 'apt-get update' first? Regards, Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On 09/12/2007 06:46 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : oraculo:/home/dlsa# apt-get install terminal.app Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: terminal.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.11 (= 0.11.0) but it is not installable Depends: gnustep-gpbs (= 0.11.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Then I ran a dpkg -C to get a list of broken packages and it showed me nothing I usually use synaptic to do package mgmt, and the error it shows me when I try to install it, is that this package is from a repository no longer in the list, and that some package that is installed depends on dependencies of it. Is it possible to know which packages are blocking the installation of this one ? Is it possible to clean the package list from these packages that have no know location but are on the list because of dependencies ? (maybe by uninstalling the ones that depend on them) Many thanks Daniel Santos I suggest going into aptitude's interactive interface as a normal user. Aptitude will let you see what packages depend upon gnustep-back and gnustep-gpbs. From the command line, you might do this: aptitude search '~i~Dgnustep-back' aptitude search '~i~Dgnustep-gpbs' But the curses interface makes research easier. Your difficulties probably stem from creating a mixed system. Try to make sure your system is fully Etch or Lenny or Sid--not a mixture of Etch, Lenny and Sid--and you'll have fewer headaches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
Daniel Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains there because some other package depends on it. Probably it is hiding the same package on one of the repositories configured. Sounds kind of strange to me ... (but I'm no expert either) Is there some documentation on the package list format and how can I search it for the packages that keep the phantom package in the list ? I think you mean reverse dependencies. Try apt-cache rdepends terminal.app Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Package list problem
Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : oraculo:/home/dlsa# apt-get install terminal.app Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: terminal.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.11 (= 0.11.0) but it is not installable Depends: gnustep-gpbs (= 0.11.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Then I ran a dpkg -C to get a list of broken packages and it showed me nothing I usually use synaptic to do package mgmt, and the error it shows me when I try to install it, is that this package is from a repository no longer in the list, and that some package that is installed depends on dependencies of it. Is it possible to know which packages are blocking the installation of this one ? Is it possible to clean the package list from these packages that have no know location but are on the list because of dependencies ? (maybe by uninstalling the ones that depend on them) Many thanks Daniel Santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get package list problem
Hello, I added the line for security updates to my sources list as mentioned on the security web site. Now I get the following message whenever I run apt-get: (voyager):/home/frank# apt-get install kde-base-crypto Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org potato/updates/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_potato_updates_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Couldn't find package kde-base-crypto Unfortunately running apt-get update does not solve the problem, I get the same error message. How do I get the package list for non-US? Here is my sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ potato non-free deb ftp://ftp.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/debian-stuff/KDE2 potato main crypto optional Thanx, Frank
Re: apt-get package list problem
Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ potato non-free deb ftp://ftp.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/debian-stuff/KDE2 potato main crypto optional It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib (well, it works). Greetz, Sebastiaan
Re: apt-get package list problem
Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib (well, it works). Greetz, Sebastiaan I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site http://www.debian.org/security/ So beeing new to debian I just thought follow the instructions on the Debian-site. Thank you, Frank
Re: apt-get package list problem
Thanks, Josip. - Forwarded message from Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Forwarded message from Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get package list problem Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib The web page says deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free And it works. deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib No, this is wrong, just because the non-US archive happens to be on the same site as the security updates, it shouldn't be referenced that way. Something like this should be used: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main non-free I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site http://www.debian.org/security/ So beeing new to debian I just thought follow the instructions on the Debian-site. Well I honestly don't see what went wrong, all of the sources.list lines on www.d.o have been checked and double-checked, you can be sure of that. :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification - End forwarded message -
