Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote: I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database? My hunch is that the

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Frank Church
On 13 December 2010 08:58, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote: I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Is that the

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-13 10:47 +0100, Frank Church wrote: == r...@heron01:/usr/src# apt-cache policy libgcc1 libgcc1: Installed: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 0 500

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Frank Church
On 13 December 2010 09:54, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-13 10:47 +0100, Frank Church wrote: == r...@heron01:/usr/src# apt-cache policy libgcc1 libgcc1: Installed: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 Version

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-13 11:50 +0100, Frank Church wrote: Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? Depends on the type of question. In any case, please mention that you are using Ubuntu, and which distribution. I thought that at this kind of low level Ubuntu and Debian are the same. Except that you would

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +, Frank Church wrote: Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? What is wrong with the ubuntu-user support mailing lists? -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 10:50:16, Frank Church wrote: Please ask on Ubuntu lists for help next time. Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here? Please don't take it the wrong way, it's not that we don't want to help Ubuntu users[1][2], it's just that some of our advices will not work, be completely

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:55:37 +, Frank Church wrote: I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Wow, gcc is an important package on every linux system: s...@stt008:~$

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 14:33:39, Camaleón wrote: Is the norm for base packages, like this. At least the package manager is smart enough to warn you against the operation :-) AFAIK this is warning is only done for packages with Essential: yes. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:55:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 13 dec 10, 14:33:39, Camaleón wrote: Is the norm for base packages, like this. At least the package manager is smart enough to warn you against the operation :-) AFAIK this is warning is only done for packages with

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:49:33, Camaleón wrote: But curious is that some of those packages are not essential but are selected to be unistalled as they were... from OP's log, apt and das, for instance :-? Don't forget OP is running Ubuntu ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among

What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-12 Thread Frank Church
I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database? r...@sys-1275:~# apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base Reading package lists... Done

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-12 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - I was paring down my installation and  the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-4.2-base Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package

Re: What are the dependencies of the gcc-4.2-base package?

2010-12-12 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Simon Hollenbach ionpowe...@googlemail.com wrote: - Original message - I was paring down my installation and  the command for gcc-4.2-base more or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base