apt/dpkg question

2003-09-05 Thread Corwin
Bonjour à tous, J'ai une petite question concernant la gestion de packages Debian. Y'a t'il moyen de supprimer les références à un package installé de la gestion de package sans toucher au fichiers concernés ?? Merci d'avance Thomas

Re: apt/dpkg question

2003-09-05 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Corwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-05 15:41] : Bonjour à tous, J'ai une petite question concernant la gestion de packages Debian. Y'a t'il moyen de supprimer les références à un package installé de la gestion de package sans toucher au fichiers concernés ?? Éditer directement les

Re: apt/dpkg question

2003-09-05 Thread Corwin
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: Re: apt/dpkg question * Corwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-05 15:41] : Bonjour à tous, J'ai une petite question concernant la gestion de packages Debian. Y'a t'il moyen de supprimer les références à un package installé de la gestion de

Re: apt/dpkg question

2003-09-05 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Corwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-06 00:51] : Merci pour la réponse et toutes mes excuses pour le post en HTML. (Outlook Express does not rule ;-)) [Aparté : il ne rule définitivement pas en te faisant commencer ta réponse au-dessus des réponses précédentes, ce qui n'est pas nétiquettement

Re: [newbie] - apt-cache / dpkg question???

2003-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:44AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: How do I get a list of packages including what distribution they came from??? Something like dpkg -l saying perl-5.8.0/unstable That's not generally possible, since packages are not tagged with their origin. 'apt-cache policy bleh'

Re: [newbie] - apt-cache / dpkg question???

2003-02-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:32:44 -0600 Jeff Hahn wrote: How do I get a list of packages including what distribution they came from??? Something like dpkg -l saying perl-5.8.0/unstable I've done just that a few days ago. Made my own script, don't know if there's any debian tool available for that

[newbie] - apt-cache / dpkg question???

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff Hahn
How do I get a list of packages including what distribution they came from??? Something like dpkg -l saying perl-5.8.0/unstable So I can tell what questionable packages I have on the system... Thanks! -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

dpkg question

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
what does this mean: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg --yet-to-unpack glide-v5 (no description available) lesstif-bin (no description available) abiword (no description available) libparted1 (no description available) gimp (no description

ssh dpkg question

2000-12-14 Thread Andrew Hall
Hello, This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os ssh due to the security announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its depends I see that it requires libz1 but I can not find that package anywhere on the debian site. I do have zlib1g installed. What's the

Re: ssh dpkg question

2000-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os ssh due to the security announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its depends I see that it requires libz1 but I can not find that package anywhere on the debian site. I do have zlib1g

quick apt/dpkg question

2000-02-04 Thread Ian Alexander
Does dpkg --get-selections report stuff that has been installed via apt? Ian J. Alexander email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 817-557-3038 Senior Software Engineer http://ija.eaze.net

Re: quick apt/dpkg question

2000-02-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ian Alexander wrote: Does dpkg --get-selections report stuff that has been installed via apt? Yes Jason

Stupid dselect/dpkg question

1999-11-16 Thread Iwan Vosloo
Hi, I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong places...). I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages... I would like to re-install from scratch, but would like to save my package selection

Re: Stupid dselect/dpkg question

1999-11-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:47:28PM +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote: Hi, I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong places...). I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages... I would like to

dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this package may not be installed on the system. Thanks. Regards, Shao.

Re: dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:55:10PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this dpkg -S file should show this. package may not be installed on the system. In this case

Re: dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/4/99 4:52:10 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this package may not be installed on the system. Search the

Re: dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:55:10PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this package may not be installed on the system. No, you have to zgrep in the Contents.gz

dpkg question

1999-01-12 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, If I know the package name(not the file name), how do I know what files are associated with this package. Thx. shao.

Re: dpkg question

1999-01-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 19:58:39 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: If I know the package name(not the file name), how do I know what files are associated with this package. dpkg -L|--listfiles package-name ... list files `owned' by package(s) HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: dpkg question

1998-10-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I am trying to build dpkg from source as provided with slink. The first | thing it tells you to do is cd to the directory containing the souce code | and type ./configure to run the configure script. | | The problem is that there IS no configure script! |

Re: DPKG question.

1998-04-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. You could use dpkg --contents filename.deb for this. It will list the files

Re: DPKG question.

1998-04-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. You may use dpkg -c package.deb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

DPKG question.

1998-04-04 Thread hospedales
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-98 Time:

dpkg question

1997-05-09 Thread Ryan Shaw
in redhat there are source packages and binary packages. one may download the source package and use `rpm --rebuild package name' to build binary packages from that. quite easy, and useful in my case. the gcc that shipped with redhat didn't function correctly on my AMD K5 so i had to recompile

Re: dpkg question

1997-05-09 Thread Igor Grobman
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Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
How about dpkg -l | less On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've got a full-blown

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Paul McDermott wrote: yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at this file and see if it helps you Paul Ps. Good luck.

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Richard Morin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Alexandre Lebrun wrote: about : listing installed unneeded packages Usually I do that with dselect. You go through the list (skipping the base package), and see every package that is installed. I find it convenient for 2 reasons : -You have a short description for the packages (in

dpkg Question

1997-04-28 Thread Jim Smith
I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've got a full-blown Debian system here and its probably time to look at it and see what I

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-28 Thread Paul McDermott
yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at this file and see if it helps you Paul Ps. Good luck. I hope this helps and let

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-28 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
about : listing installed unneeded packages Usually I do that with dselect. You go through the list (skipping the base package), and see every package that is installed. I find it convenient for 2 reasons : -You have a short description for the packages (in case you don't remember) -You can