Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Stephen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get, aptitude and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes and purges. I'm certainly no Debian linux expert, if anyone is. I

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get, aptitude and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes and purges. I'm

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Stephen
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:12:28AM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Simonelli wrote: On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote: 'aptitude search package' works for me. I have never really needed to use apt-cache or apt-file to search for applications. I've always used 'aptitude search

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Dave Kuhlman
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Allen wrote: Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find $package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but install it:

Re: Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Hey Guys, thanks for all the comments. I think I may have picked up a few tricks in your comments. However, my issue was not one of searching, it was one of not having the package downloaded and available to install(linux-image- 2.6.5-1-686). I was using sid only and unknown to me the kernel

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Katipo
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Hey Guys, thanks for all the comments. I think I may have picked up a few tricks in your comments. However, my issue was not one of searching, it was one of not having the package downloaded and available to install(linux-image- 2.6.5-1-686). I was using sid only

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote: Other responses in this thread give good suggestions for searching for packages. But, suppose your question is something like: What package contains file or application xyz? In effect, you are saying: I need file/app xyz? What

Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images To: debian-user

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Allan Wind
Leonard, On 2006-06-17T10:06:42-0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Would appreciate anyone telling me how to get all the kernel/linux-images back int my cache files so I can pick the one I want instaled. Plz copy my email-not subscribed. Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Wackojacko
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
--- Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: --- Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Allen wrote: Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find $package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but install it: `aptitide -d install $package_name` (latter need to be as root). Not

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: --- Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: snip Looks like you still want a mechanism for keeping specific versions of specific packages in cache. What I do is copy the .debs elsewhere, such