Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:52:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be
able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking
directly at where apt stores its files.
dpkg -l
or for just the package names:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
I would have used dpkg --get-selections and later piped that output
back into dpkg --set-selections.
Its not quite as robust as jdub's, since it will (pretty much) only
give you a list of the *installed* packages. So long as you're
starting from a minimal base system the second time round, it'll do
the right thing - and its nice and easy.
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Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Angus Lees wrote: At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:52:32 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: In sum, I'm starting to contemplate reinstalling Debian, something I am prepared to go to lengths to avoid because I would lose a lot of hard-won material, because I'm living with an 80 yr old who is only starting to get over her computer-phobia, and because I also have other things to do. Where/what is this hard-won material? Just copy your important data off somewhere temporarily (maybe just another partition) and reinstall. The alternative is going to be *weeks* of hand hacking stuff. If you'd simply reinstalled you'd be done by now. Probably right. It's a good idea to get a firm understanding of which parts of a system you do and don't modify from what the system sets up for you. Almost everything you want to keep should be in /etc and /home. On some systems you'd include /usr/local/etc in that. It's not a bad idea to make a note of any areas outside of that where you modify files. I know that it's possible under debian to get a list of where files come from (ie which package), and probably you can also get checksums. I'm not sure on the details though. You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking directly at where apt stores its files. The other thing is that while it can be time consuming, starting from scratch is typically not at all a disempowering thing once the new user gets going on it. All the stuff that was mystifying the first time round is at least somewhat familiar on a repeat run, and provides a sense that actually they have got the hang of a lot of this stuff. -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain traces of Nuts. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
quote who=Andrew McNaughton
I know that it's possible under debian to get a list of where files come
from (ie which package), and probably you can also get checksums. I'm not
sure on the details though.
dpkg -S file
dpkg -L package
You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be
able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking
directly at where apt stores its files.
dpkg -l
or for just the package names:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
:-)
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RE: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
Thanks Jeff, that's just what I need right now.
Cheers,
Adam Bogacki
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to
install.
quote who=Andrew McNaughton
I know that it's possible under debian to get a list of where files
come
from (ie which package), and probably you can also get checksums. I'm
not
sure on the details though.
dpkg -S file
dpkg -L package
You also want the list of installed software, which you should
normally be
able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking
directly at where apt stores its files.
dpkg -l
or for just the package names:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
:-)
- Jeff
--
linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia
http://lca2004.linux.org.au/
You know, the crunchy, folk-singer part of me wants to believe that
a
performance is a dialogue, but I can't hear a fucking thing you're
saying. - Ani DiFranco
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Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
Dude, you've hosed your system. At this point you can either: restore from backups (*ahem*) try to undo whatever you did (iirc you moved /usr and /lib somewhere else) try to duplicate exactly what Debian had put in those directories by hand (almost impossible) or save what data you can and reinstall. The choice is yours, but I know what I would have done by now. At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:52:32 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: In sum, I'm starting to contemplate reinstalling Debian, something I am prepared to go to lengths to avoid because I would lose a lot of hard-won material, because I'm living with an 80 yr old who is only starting to get over her computer-phobia, and because I also have other things to do. Where/what is this hard-won material? Just copy your important data off somewhere temporarily (maybe just another partition) and reinstall. The alternative is going to be *weeks* of hand hacking stuff. If you'd simply reinstalled you'd be done by now. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Perl5.8 installed; Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
Hi, thanks for trying to help. I kept reading the apt error messages and trying to fix them. I moved a number of Perl files and directories to where Apt wanted them but it kept preconfiguring pkgs but Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) /etc/apt/apt.conf currently has the line APT::Cache-Limit 4; that is 400Mb, so space is not likely to be an issue. 'apt-get install perl' gave me the response 'perl is the newest version' Tryng to remove perl threatened to remove half of the installed files, if not more. *** I am ready to continue the process of correcting apt's error messages but they now flash by too quickly to be legible and there is no way I'm aware of, in the absence of a WM in console mode, of scrolling back and reading in detail. Can they be viewed in a file somewhere? I downloaded 'stable.tar.gz. from www.cpan.org to /home and unpacked it to form 'perl-5.8.0' - to create space in /usr Following Andrew McNaughton's advice I had a look at /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin but the only version of perl available was 5.8.0 What I DO have is my previous system mounted in a removable drive as subdirectory 'cyberia' which contains 5.6.0 ... Eg '.cyberia/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm' I tried to run perl version -V Tux:/usr/local/bin perl perl5.8.0 -V Unrecognised character \x7F at perl5.8.0 line 1 I had the same response whether it was 'perl' or 'perl-5.8.0' or from within /home/perl-5.8.0 or /home, or /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin but using 'perl5.6.0' received Can't open perl script perl5.6.0: No such file or directory In sum, I'm starting to contemplate reinstalling Debian, something I am prepared to go to lengths to avoid because I would lose a lot of hard-won material, because I'm living with an 80 yr old who is only starting to get over her computer-phobia, and because I also have other things to do. Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Bogacki Address: 6 Rodrigo Rd., Kilbirnie, Wellington 6003, Home Phone: (04) 387 9866 Mobile: (021) 031 9193 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
