2014-06-06 20:10 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
wrote:
Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, also. And
you were kicked out of them. So you had to find another place to troll.
Does
You're lying. Your social media friends say otherwise.
I'm happily married.
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On 6
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On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
Not true.
I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup
to be a very interesting
From: Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com
To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those
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On 06/07/2014 07:52 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-07 at 3:38, Raffaele Morelli wrote:]
Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those flames
are more and more frequent.
I can tell you who started them: Jerry Stuckle
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
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From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list? You seem
to use forum
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
LOL! Last time I was called that was in third grade or so. It shows your
and dependencies
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
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On 06/06/2014 06:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-06 at 1:51, Bob Holtzman wrote:]
BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list?
You seem to use forum as a catchall.
A forum is a website whose members can
Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus
'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart, even
if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea, maybe not,
but you need to use what todays people think of a forum to be correct..
Not
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On 06/06/2014 09:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote:
Ever heard of etymological fallacy?
No, but it's an idea that makes sense.
Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus 'taken apart', yet we use the
term for anything that's falling apart, even if it's not
On 6/6/2014 6:12 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
*From:* Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM
*Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files
On 6/6/2014 9:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote:
Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus
'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart,
even if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea,
maybe not, but you need to use what todays
, orphaned files and dependencies
Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told
this more than once yet he comes back with another question that
can be answered with a search.
I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian because
the former has an awesome forum
From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
In either case, the only thing to do would be to begin
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
No, it means you are still at the same mental maturity level as a third
grader
Poor old Jerry.
He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man.
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On 6/6/2014 2:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 6/6/2014 12:26 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
Poor old Jerry.
He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man.
ROFLMAO! I am happily married - unlike you.
But then your personal attacks show your level of maturity.
Jerry
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On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
Not true.
I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup
to be a very interesting case study for students of psychology.
Then why don't you go back to them?
Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there,
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, also. And
you were kicked out of them. So you had to find another place to troll.
Does this discussion really need to continue?
ChrisA
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Hi Horatio,
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian
Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list.
Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity
lenses spyware that
On 6/5/2014 1:13 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
*From:* Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
*Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:13:47PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Ralph, I
, orphaned files and dependencies
The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay
between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous.
Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and
dpkg -i package
followed by
apt-get -f install
From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
How do I learn it?
Learning by doing ;).
$ chown --help
Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
[snip]
Examples:
chown root /uChange the owner of /u to root.
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
snip
Before You Ask
Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a
website chat board, do the following:
1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told this more
than once
On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools are
front-ends for. It does no dependency checking,
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency
From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency
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On 06/03/2014 07:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-06-03 at 5:08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:]
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do
dependency checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to
install it will take
From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:20 PM
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That depends on a number of other factors.
Literally
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools
are front-ends for. It does no
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 19:00:46 +0100, Joe wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote:
Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to
'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool
From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay
between dpkg
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk
The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay
between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous.
Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and
dpkg -i
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
apt-get -f install
means a force install, am I correct?
No, you aren't!
-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. -
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get
dpkg -i doesn't
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 00:14 +0100, Brian wrote:
No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get)
A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of
a man(ual)page, but you need to learn it.
Btw. you could use a search engine to do research in the Internet.
https://startpage.com/
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual First hit:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get
JFTR for the search term: apt-get man
or for: apt-get manpage
The second hit is manpages.debian.net ;).
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From: Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
Thanks for your help, Jorg.
The aptitude command offers some help:
I read somewhere
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 05:49:24 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to
use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt'
command. Is that correct?
No. The context you probably saw that in is important.
$ aptitude
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 05:49:24 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote:
I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to
use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt'
command. Is that correct?
For the last few upgrades (to my
On 2014-06-01, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote:
Other than that, it is a matter of personal preference. Aptitude has
a command-line text mode and an interactive text-graphics mode, apt-get
is older and is purely text. Aptitude merges various tools under one
command, apt-get, apt-cache and
My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with
apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend
the one in the package debian-reference-en (or another language you prefer)
which of course is also available on the debian site.
The search option of
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 20:05:23 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with
apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend
the one in the package debian-reference-en (or another language you prefer)
which of
After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there are
unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around.
How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS?
Op Sat, 31 May 2014 09:09:22 +0200 schreef Horatio Leragon
hlera...@yahoo.com:
After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there
are unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around.
How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS?
Try the following commands:
$ sudo
The aptitude command offers some help:
$ aptitude search '~c'
searches for packages that were removed but not purged, i.e., their
configuration files are still present;
to get rid of these files order
$ aptitude purge '~c'
Next:
$ aptitude search '~g'
searches for packages not required by
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