2011/10/14 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com
Carl-Valentin Schmitt cv.deb...@googlemail.com writes:
Hello Harry Putnam,
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
What is that?
lsb_release -a
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Hello Harry Putnam,
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
lsb_release -a
as command ? Try it as user.
Happy Hacking.
Greetings.
dschinn
cv.deb...@gmail.com
2011/10/12 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I
Carl-Valentin Schmitt cv.deb...@googlemail.com writes:
Hello Harry Putnam,
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
What is that?
lsb_release -a
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
What is that?
Sorry I suddenly realized you must mean inside the ncurses aptitude.
I rarely use that... its very confusing to work with.
I mostly use the cmdline aspects of aptitude.
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To
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get versions',
which is not suitable for copy/paste:
,
|aptitude versions xorg
| ihA 1:7.6+9
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
fact.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you.
The list is posted at the end. And how can I
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try dpkg -l|grep
'^i', though I'm not entirely
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
fact.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you.
The list
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try
Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
pkg at:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must
have that information somewhere.
dpkg-query can display the information in
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get
versions',
which is not suitable for copy/paste:
,
|aptitude versions xorg
| ihA
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
fact.
These are not different xservers - they're xserver-related (the main X.org one)
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It
appears the original installation routine has installed a heard of
them. 37 in fact.
These are not different xservers -
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
[...]
dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For
example:
dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n'
(package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous;
is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes:
aptitude search -F '%p %v' xorg
or for all installed packages
aptitude search -F '%p %v' '?installed'
Man, I'm really sorry for having just skated right over all that
information in man aptitude showing how the % operator can be used.
Thanks for point it
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl writes:
You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input
drivers.
Is the only way to tell which correspond with Video card, just picking
them out of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Or is there
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
pkg at:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must
have that information somewhere.
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl writes:
You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers.
I'm still managing to confuse myself.
When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need
with
On 2011-10-12 21:50 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl writes:
You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s)
corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers.
I'm still managing to confuse myself.
When I look at some of the
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:50:16PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm still managing to confuse myself.
When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need
with `aptitude why' It appears to be saying they are needed:
aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-mach64
i
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
[...]
i task-desktop Depends xserver-xorg-video-all
ihA xserver-xorg-video-all Depends xserver-xorg-video-ati
i A xserver-xorg-video-ati Depends xserver-xorg-video-mach64
Note that the output shows `Depends' rather than
Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl writes:
Answering your previous question, there's no way of automating the process
of auto-discovery of graphic card, therefore if you'd like to run
a desktop system and install 'task-desktop' (itself not a real package
but a virtual one, a task which installs
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 15:52:48 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Does it require a complete start over?
Here is the kind of confusing mess I run into:
sudo aptitude remove xserver-xorg-video-all
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg-video-all
[Snip]
Looks pretty
On 10/12/2011 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Darac Marjalmailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
Solution to your problem: mark the packages as having been manually
installed. I don't use aptitude but believe it is capable of doing it.
That looks promising and yes aptitude has that capability as I see it
in the man page.
Thanks for the handy tip. That
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