On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:40:24PM +, James Allsopp wrote:
Hello,
Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from
Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of
aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst
and
aptitude install virtinst/wheezy
but with no joy, It goes through
On Jan 21, 2008 10:00 AM, Paul Csanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
I installed Debian Etch on a PC box with netinstall CD.
Now I want to remove CD driver from this box.
But I want before that to copy the netisntall.iso file
to HDD on that box.
So, when I have removed the CD drive, I
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:00:27PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
Hello!
I installed Debian Etch on a PC box with netinstall CD.
Now I want to remove CD driver from this box.
But I want before that to copy the netisntall.iso file
to HDD on that box.
So, when I have removed the CD drive, I
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Manually installed packages have status i while automatically
installed ones have i A.
They have a c next to them.
So what you did is you removed the
s. keeling wrote:
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Manually installed packages have status i while automatically
installed ones have i A.
They have a c next to them.
So
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:44:59PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
That was my opinion and why I asked the original question. So, I should
let aptitude know that I installed those packages myself? Even though
they won't be in the same directories that aptitude thinks they should
be in?
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Manually installed packages have status i while automatically
installed ones have i A.
They have a c next to them.
So what you did is you removed the Debian package and then ran make
install,
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:23:29 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
There are a few packages that I install directly from source onto my
system. On Aptitude I noticed the markauto option. Should I let aptitude
know that I have installed those packages manually?
That should not be necessary;
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:23:29AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
There are a few packages that I install directly from source onto my
system. On Aptitude I noticed the markauto option. Should I let aptitude
know that I have installed those packages manually?
The packages that I have
I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list.
Jeff
Original Message
Subject:Re: Installing Packages From Source
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Nov 01
I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list.
Jeff
Original Message
Subject:Re: Installing Packages From Source
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Nov 01
Brian Smith wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently trying to install a bunch of software to a flash-based
machine with a 1GB flash drive and 1GB ram. In order to save space, I
want to have most of the development packages I need for compiling in
a separate directory (say /usr/remote), which is
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:00, RAPPAZ Francois wrote:
Hi, I would like to install libgnomeprint-2.2-2.10.
On my sarge I got 2.8 and with Abiword, fill justified text using true
type font are ill printed.
I've read that upgrading libgnomeprint would solve this.
The next version of
RAPPAZ Francois wrote:
Hi, I would like to install libgnomeprint-2.2-2.10.
On my sarge I got 2.8 and with Abiword, fill justified text using true type
font are ill printed.
I've read that upgrading libgnomeprint would solve this.
The next version of libgnomeprint-2.2 I've found is
Martin Paraskevov wrote:
Hello,
I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I
have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but
when I search for mozilla-firefox with:
apt-cache show mozilla-firefox
I get an older version of the browser.
1. Can I
Hello
Martin Paraskevov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I
have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but
when I search for mozilla-firefox with:
apt-cache show mozilla-firefox
I get an older version of
name of the tool is Synaptic Package Manager. You can add also
repositories for testing distribution, but i thing, that than you
actualy upgrade to testing. If you choose package from testing
distribution, than dependencies will require also other packages from
testing. Not sure about this.
There is a section of the apt-howto reference that deals with keeping
a mixed system:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version
though you will end up writing to two different config files inside
/etc/apt, so if you aren't cool with that, then try this:
Martin Paraskevov wrote:
Hello,
I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I
have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but when
I search for mozilla-firefox with:
apt-cache show mozilla-firefox
I get an older version of the browser.
1. Can I
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:47:22 -0400
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, Tom Allison wrote:
I have two machines that I would like to have the second one
installed with the same list of packages as the first.
I know I can find out what is installed by
Bob Schlärmann wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:47:22 -0400
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, Tom Allison wrote:
I have two machines that I would like to have the second one
installed with the same list of packages as the first.
I know I can find out what is
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, Tom Allison wrote:
I have two machines that I would like to have the second one installed
with the same list of packages as the first.
I know I can find out what is installed by running
dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}' installed_list
But how can I
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0800, Number Six wrote:
Over on debian-devel,
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg00624.html],
a thread got started about running dpkg --force-not-root --root=`pwd`.
I asked the diff. between that and just extracting it, and
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with
apt?
I don't want to use dpkg -i once the packages are built (as suggested
in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the
system (it did in the past...).
On 2003-11-10 11:15:26 -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
dpkg does *check* dependencies, it just doesn't go out of its way to
*correct* them. That is, dpkg shouldn't let you install a package if
its dependencies aren't already installed. If you never use a --force
option and your packages work, it
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:42:02 +0100,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with
apt?
I don't want to use dpkg -i once the packages are built (as suggested
in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the
system (it did
On 2003-11-11 06:55:36 +0800, csj wrote:
You might try creating your own apt archive. An apt archive is just a
directory (or subdirectories) full of debs. To make them visible
to apt you create an index file called Packages (or gzipped to
Packages.gz) using a command like dpkg-scanpackages .
also sprach JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.06.09.2155 +0200]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2
try:
fakeroot apt-get install python2.2
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On Sunday 09 June 2002 03:02 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.06.09.2155 +0200]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2
try:
fakeroot apt-get install python2.2
Thanks, that works great with a little PATH modification, which I needed to
do
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 05:31:51PM -0500, JW wrote:
I'm not the least bit supprised that lilo fails (in fact I'm rather glad it
fails :-D ), because lilo can't -- and shouldn't -- be run from the chroot
environment.
The question then is why is lilo being tweaked at all -- I haven't
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and
apt.conf
To install Galeon from unstable the command is:
apt-get install galeon/unstable.
The one thing that I find particularly annoying with this setup is that
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
How can I install packages from the unstable version of the
distribution with apt-get?
Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and
apt.conf
To install Galeon from unstable the command is:
apt-get install
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
How can I install packages from the unstable version of the
distribution with apt-get?
For instance, if I type apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 or
apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable, I get an error
E: Couldn't find package
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the
proper package name.
$ apt-get install libgtk2.0
It doesn't work.
I've now modified the sources.list as I've been told (I've *added*
unstable versions of the
* Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:12]:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the
proper package name.
$ apt-get install libgtk2.0
It doesn't work.
I've now modified the sources.list
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 21:33:58 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and
apt.conf
Thanks, this is what I wanted. This is strange that apt.conf hadn't
been set when I installed the Debian/testing distribution.
--
Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the
proper package name.
$ apt-get install libgtk2.0
It doesn't work.
?
I've now modified the
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 20:26:09 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
Try doing apt-get -d install libgtk2.0 only. Don't do upgrade;
that's for updating all/most of your installed packages.
I know that. But as I sometimes to an upgrade, I wanted to see if
modifying sources.list didn't break things.
A 'dpkg --search Glob.pm' (it is case sensitive) gave me a:
perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/File/DosGlob.pm
perl-5.6: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/File/Glob.pm
perl-5.6: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/File/DosGlob.pm
So I guess the relevant package for you would be perl-5.6.
Is it possible that yours is
I had the same problem. For some reason, perl-5.6-5.6 was not
installing before the apps that needed it. I downloaded the .deb
manually, installed it, and the errors when away.
Kelly
Juergen Fiedler wrote:
A 'dpkg --search Glob.pm' (it is case sensitive) gave me a:
perl-5.005:
%% Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kc I had the same problem. For some reason, perl-5.6-5.6 was not
kc installing before the apps that needed it. I downloaded the .deb
kc manually, installed it, and the errors when away.
My understanding (perhaps incorrect) is that debs are
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:34:12 +1000 , Kenrick, Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB
Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first,
then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ?
No. The man pages are in the packages themselves. Your approach
wouldn't give
IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB
Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first,
then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ?
- Chris
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:34:42 -0500, Joshua Holland wrote:
I'm very new to Debian and Linux. I got Debian running fine on my
Mac IIci. I downloaded the Debian base system install files, but I
don't want to install packages by download (my IIci is not connected
to net yet and this seems slow
Tropeek wrote:
Hi
I would like to know how I can install packages that are in *.deb or
*.tar.gz format.
TIA
To install a .deb,
dpkg -i foo.deb
check out man dpkg or use 'dselect'.
I'm not so experienced with installing foreign packages but they mostly
should be installed in /usr/local.
Jason Errol Draut wrote:
I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install
some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff
that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base
system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pat Greenwood wrote:
IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up
stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99.
I have just the basic system installed.
Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dselect Install shows
I have to get 526k
Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pat Greenwood wrote:
IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up
stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99.
I have just the basic system installed.
Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dselect Install
Hello,
==
How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't
have .deb extensions?
If they are only gzipped, then there is only file inside the .gz file, and
you unzip it using gunzip, like :
gunzip name_of_the_file.gz
However, if the files end with .tar.gz or
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, ANDREW INFANTE wrote:
How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't
have .deb extensions?
Ouch! You can't just do that, you need to install Slackware first :-)
But IIRC Slackware is not available as a .deb yet. Maybe someone is
working on it.
If you have access to a debian system you can split files using
1) dpkg
or
2) The dd command.
I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is
not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How
do I install packages
Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the
sort of thing that rawwrite.exe does? If that is the case, then you
can copy the files in specified sized pieces and then use either
rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or dd under Linux (if dd is in
the base system).
I
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the
sort of thing that rawwrite.exe does? If that is the case, then you
can copy the files in specified sized pieces and then use either
rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or dd
I just 'poked around' looking for something that would describe the
command syntax for rawwrite.exe and nothing that I could find even
suggested that the program could 'skip' such as dd will do... if that is
true then of course it would be useless for what was wanted.
dd can copy from a rawwrite
Try pkzip/pkunzip (probably get it off the web) if that fails, there is a
dos version of tar .. I think you can get them from one of the simtel
archives (or find one using one of the archie sites )
For the nearest simtel site to you go to
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I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is
not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How
do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is
there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several
disks?
there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across
several disks? Thanks.
My meegar advise might be try to uuencode it and slip it into two files then
zip each, put it on the dos partion (assuming you have one) and uudecode.
Achaic, but it should work ;)
Of course, then you'd
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is
not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How
do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is
there a DOS utility that I
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's
why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system
running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run
dpkg-scanpackages on all of those packages. You can
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