Re: DSelect

2001-06-24 Thread patrick q
--- Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' > browse > the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed > that are > not currently installed, and I don't want. When I t

Re: DSelect

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
dpkg to > install htdig. Now dselect keeps complainig about it "install a bl##dy httpd > you [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$". In the documentation (yup i love 'RTFM') i read > 'dselect does > not handle recommends too well'. Ack. This is bloody annoying. But I

Re: DSelect

2001-06-23 Thread Paul Wright
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:30:05 EDT, Kevin Stokes wrote: > I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' browse > the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed that are > not currently installed, and I don't want. When I try

DSelect

2001-06-23 Thread Kevin Stokes
I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' browse the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed that are not currently installed, and I don't want. When I try to press the '-' key to not select them, many of them give m

DSelect

2001-06-23 Thread nico de haer
Dear Joost, (cc sent to debian-user@lists.debian.org) Reading the past few mail's you wrote, you expressed that you are a dselect fan and know your way arround in the program. I found myself in the following situation that dselect was unable to solve. (then again, i *might* not have made m

dselect (Re: Help!! gdm installation problem)

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
system. If you randomly pick package versions from different distribution versions, it might break. You are finding dpkg to be stubborn on you because it is trying not to break your system. BTW, always use dselect. Apt-get is great stuff, mostly if used properly, which usually means: as a dselect acce

Fw: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > > Ello > > > > that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ > > how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages > > that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > What are you trying to do? Are you trying to get lib6 or some other > package from woody or sid for your potato system? That will not work, > if that's what you're doing. dselect is trying to download all the > other packages because they depend on

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ > how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages > that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more > packages that are needed (i think ;])...

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > Ello > > that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ > how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages > that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more > packages that are needed (

downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread pReJkEr
Ello that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more packages that are needed (i think ;])... ...:: [ pReJkEr ] ::... ...:: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED

dselect and cdrom

2001-06-09 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just installed potato from the reiserfs boot diskette (switched from mandrake). everything seems very nice but I'm having a problem with dselect. it doesn't install from cdrom. if I run 'apt-get install gimp-manual' it will install it from the cd, but if I selec

dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Daniel Wagner
hello, since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the following errormessage came. |Reading Package Lists... Done |Building Dependency

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On 6 Jun 2001, Daniel Wagner wrote: > since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look > for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in > dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the > following errormessage came. >

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look >for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in >dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the >following errormessage ca

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages and apt did not download a new one on the next dselect update. I think maybe it compares timestamps and does not download a new packages file if the local one is newer. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH l

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Sass
e remote archive and fetches the files > > again -- first downloading them into /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. > > Actually, I fixed the problem yesterday for myself by editing > > > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > > and a

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Raja R Harinath
fixed the problem yesterday for myself by editing > > > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > > and apt did not download a new one on the next dselect update. I think > maybe it compares timestamps and does not download a new

dselect problem

2001-06-07 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, When I run dselect and select update, apt runs through my sources.list updating its Contents, and then I get the following error: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 7311 package `blt': `Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error

Re: dselect problem

2001-06-07 Thread Anthony Fox
As a followup to my last email, I believe the problem is in the way the version number of the package blt-dev is written in the depends of many other packages. In /var/cache/apt/available, the Depends: lines that contain blt-dev always list the version number as "2.4[ij]-1 ". dpkg is barfing on th

Re: mkisofs -- not in dselect

2001-06-01 Thread Lukas Ruf
I found it myself: www.debian.org -> packages -> search -> download -> dpkg --install nonethelss, quite strange to me --lpr On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I do not find mkisofs in my dselect. The system I am running: > woody/unstable. >

mkisofs -- not in dselect

2001-06-01 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I do not find mkisofs in my dselect. The system I am running: woody/unstable. my /etc/apt/sources.list: --- deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb http://www.realbodo.de

Re: dselect won't install gnucash

2001-05-29 Thread Mark P. Esplin
> Sounds like you've upgraded bits of your system to unstable at some > point, since libguile9 and guile1.4 are only in unstable (and so I > imagine that packages in stable won't have depended on them). What > does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? What does dselect complain

Re: dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Berthold Cogel wrote: > > Hello! > > Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). > After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get > dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages > about

Re: dselect won't install gnucash

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using debian potato. I have been using gnucash (I am not sure >which version). After updating my system with dselect, it deleted >gnucash. When I try to reinstall gnucash (version 1.3.4-3 is all that >is listed) with dselect it gives me

dselect won't install gnucash

2001-05-25 Thread Mark P. Esplin
I am using debian potato. I have been using gnucash (I am not sure which version). After updating my system with dselect, it deleted gnucash. When I try to reinstall gnucash (version 1.3.4-3 is all that is listed) with dselect it gives me a dependency problem. It says I need

dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-23 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages about unmet dependencies. All of them covered programs I have already

apt-get/dselect problem

2001-05-15 Thread Christoph Blank
I am using unstable, and someone told me to run a dist-upgrade because of some problems i had. I did a apt-get update and then upgrade first, but there were some unmet dependencies and apt told me to run apt-get -f install. but if I do this I get a very weird error message, never saw that before

Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +, Victor wrote: > Any suggestion? > I'm reproposing my previous message. > By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. > Vittorio > -- Forwarded Message ------ > Subject: Dselect chown: r

Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-29 Thread Victor
Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 + From: Victor &l

Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-27 Thread Victor
Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfi

Re: Not using dselect or the likes

2001-04-27 Thread
; not provided by debian is there any way to 'debianize' it in order to >> deal with it by means of dpkg or dselect? >> Ciao >> Vittorio > >Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. > >The 'equivs' package does this. You can also roll your own debian

Re: Problem when update 'console-tools' by dselect

2001-04-27 Thread sam
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:03:14 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > Liao Zhing-Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is the error messages > >Preconfiguring packages .. > >(Reading database ... 37745 files and directories currently installed.) > >P

Re: Not using dselect or the likes

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
. My question is > as simple as that: Needing for wahtever reason to compile a software > not provided by debian is there any way to 'debianize' it in order to > deal with it by means of dpkg or dselect? > Ciao > Vittorio Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. The &

Re: annoying Dependency/conflict resolution screen in dselect

2001-04-26 Thread Jorge Santos
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 01:48 schrieb Jorge Santos: > > > Whenever I exit the Select section of dselect normally I get an screen > > telling me that some packages suggest some others (that btw are > > already inst

Re: annoying Dependency/conflict resolution screen in dselect

2001-04-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 01:48 schrieb Jorge Santos: > Whenever I exit the Select section of dselect normally I get an screen > telling me that some packages suggest some others (that btw are > already installed) and I can't seem

Not using dselect or the likes

2001-04-26 Thread
ay to 'debianize' it in order to deal with it by means of dpkg or dselect? Ciao Vittorio - messaggio inviato con Freemail by superEva http://www.supereva.it -

annoying Dependency/conflict resolution screen in dselect

2001-04-25 Thread Jorge Santos
Whenever I exit the Select section of dselect normally I get an screen telling me that some packages suggest some others (that btw are already installed) and I can't seem to get rid of it. Any clues on why might this be happening (I just upgraded to woody). jorge santos

Re: Problem when update 'console-tools' by dselect

2001-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
Liao Zhing-Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is the error messages >Preconfiguring packages .. >(Reading database ... 37745 files and directories currently installed.) >Preparing to replace console-tools 1:0.2.3-22 (using >.../console-tools_1%3a0.2.3-23_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement cons

Problem when update 'console-tools' by dselect

2001-04-24 Thread Liao Zhing-Shin
//non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non- free And everytime i use dselect, when deal with it will first display this error messages. Then I can't do anythiny such as update other packages. If anyone can help me? Thinks.

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: > I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some > comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get > dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works. Erm ... dsel

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
rade. I > tried to remedy by using dselect, but that only caused more conflicts and > essential package removal like bsdutils. When I got into trouble upgrading , I installed some key files (libc and some perl things) manually using "dpkg -i" using cached packages in "/var/cach

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am also experimenting with upgrading potato to testing now that I have >some more bandwith available. I screwed up big time by doing apt-get update >&& apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I >tri

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Hans
I am also experimenting with upgrading potato to testing now that I have some more bandwith available. I screwed up big time by doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I tried to remedy by using dselect, but that only caused mo

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-21 Thread Joost van der Lugt
Colin Watson wrote: > > "Michael Novak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i've installed potato 2.2r2 and now i would like to have new version of qt > >library. > >so i added new source pointing on debian ftp unstable version into > >/etc/atp/sourc

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael Novak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i've installed potato 2.2r2 and now i would like to have new version of qt >library. >so i added new source pointing on debian ftp unstable version into >/etc/atp/sources.list and run dselect. after cache update dsele

upgrading with dselect

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Novak
i've installed potato 2.2r2 and now i would like to have new version of qt library. so i added new source pointing on debian ftp unstable version into /etc/atp/sources.list and run dselect. after cache update dselect automaticaly(!) selects about 50mb packages! i supposed that after

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
gt; > [*] Python Dev Full Python development environment > > [*] Python Web Python web application development environm > > [*] SgmlSGML and XML authoring and editing > > [*] Sgml Dev SGML and XML development environment

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
SGML and XML authoring and editing > [*] Sgml DevSGML and XML development environment I don't normally select any tasks, but just move on to the 1st dselect. > Everything seemed OK, judging from having installed slink/potato about > a dozen times before (sometimes j

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Cymbala wrote: > I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas > the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!" > message) did not? Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task system

After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
mes before (sometimes just for practice). After a reboot, I launched dselect and: - [S]elect - upon entering Select screen, pressed ENTER ("- All packages -") - [I]nstall It said: ... 65 newly installed; 89.8MB will be used ... I don't get it. Why does dselect "want&qu

dselect (help please)

2001-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone! Please I really need help. Installing archives via dselect doesn't work anymore and I am not willing to reinstall from scratch. Error Message: 82% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102,

Dselect ing

2001-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- --- Begin Message --- Hi there. Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work anymore for me but I have no idea were to start looking for clues, so I just post the output, with a few comments. I can provide further information if necessary. -- I already selected some packages and

Dselect ing

2001-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there. Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work anymore for me but I have no idea were to start looking for clues, so I just post the output, with a few comments. I can provide further information if necessary. -- I already selected some packages and went for install: -- Re

Re: dselect access default

2001-03-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, try restoring the original sources by using 'apt-cdrom'. I can't remember how to use it, but read the man page, and you should be fine. Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was happily using dselect to install things from a cdrom, using the default for th

dselect access default

2001-03-31 Thread c-blair
I was happily using dselect to install things from a cdrom, using the default for the access choice. Then, one day, I forgot to take the default and typed in something foolish of my own. Since then, I have not been able to get dselect to access the cdrom. Further, I think I may have

dselect won't read CD's

2001-03-30 Thread Abyss
I'm building a 2.2.15 kernel with potato (I386) and, on boot up, I can mount /cdrom with no problems and can access files on it. However, dselect won't recognize the Debian I386 install CD's. If I reboot with the old kernel 2.0.36, everything works fine. Same CD's.

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-28 Thread csj
On Tuesday 27 March 2001 23:15, Colin Watson wrote: > Those are the only tools I know of that will create the Packages > file. Note that you need to gzip the Packages file if you use > dpkg-scanpackages; I think apt-ftparchive will do that for you. I don't think so. All the programs in my syst

Re: GLUG: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Craig Balfour
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally > downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages > dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) t

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally >downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, >dpkg-scan-packages dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to >create the appropriate Packa

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally > downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages > dosn't do it - I don't know h

Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to create the appropriate Packages & Release files and directory structur

Re: How to clear dselect list?

2001-03-25 Thread R1chard Green \(1 \[one\] not I \[eye\]\)
jennyw wrote: > > For some reason, when I run dselect and select I for install (without > using S for select), I get a list of stuff I don't remember selecting > (this happened shortly after I installed Ximian Gnome using apt, per > Ximian's instructions). Some of the fi

How to clear dselect list?

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
For some reason, when I run dselect and select I for install (without using S for select), I get a list of stuff I don't remember selecting (this happened shortly after I installed Ximian Gnome using apt, per Ximian's instructions). Some of the files it says it's going to remo

dselect/dpkg-perl problem: method "value" cannot be located

2001-03-22 Thread Lukas Ruf
Folks, I have troubles with dselect/dpkg since I started an update of my Linux Box running Debian woody. This problem can be focused to the post-installation --configure process: dpkg complains: "Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debconf::Question" at

Re: dselect

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
worrying about the > dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't > install them. Thanks. -Jeff Disregard my immediately previous comment. It appears I'm wrong. I'll consult with the Universe on this shortly. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.n

Re: dselect

2001-03-18 Thread kmself
worrying about the > dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't > install them. Thanks. -Jeff libfoo-dev provides libfoo. There is no conflict. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand

Need expert help on default selection and dependencies in dselect

2001-03-17 Thread Onno
Hi All, I'm using Debian a few years now and it's the best distro around, but there are two annoying topics that irritate me when I'm installing debian and using dselect. 1) By default, the first time you use dselect it automatically selects a standard system. Using R do

Re: dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
16, 2000 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error > > resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How > > can I just force the installation without worrying about the

Re: dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
How > can I just force the installation without worrying about the > dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't > install them. Thanks. -Jeff -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3

dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How can I just force the installation without worrying about the dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't install them. Thanks. -Jeff

Re: dselect help

2001-03-10 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Check under /var/lib/dpkg. You'll find the files "status" and > "status-old". I believe status-old is the state of things one immediate > version prior. I also believe there was an earlier system in which > several prior states where kept. I have to admit I underst

Re: 'dselect'-like tool for Solaris?

2001-03-09 Thread hansen
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:29:01PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > This isn't really a debian question as much as a Solaris question, but I'm > not sure the Solaris people would understand what I'm trying to describe. > > Does anyone know of a tool like 'dselect&#x

Re: 'dselect'-like tool for Solaris?

2001-03-08 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, the pkgadd stuff is Solaris official, but if you're looking to manage GNU software checkout "stow" (which is also available as a .deb for your Debian box) I use it to manage /usr/local/ on every OS with a /usr/local, it's a perl script that allows orderly install and removal of software packa

dselect is not working

2001-03-08 Thread Tristan
when doing apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, apt has been reporting that base-config has been kept back, (it has been like this for several days), and the only problem i have is that dselect will not let me install any packages unless base-config is also installed, and when i select base-config

RE: 'dselect'-like tool for Solaris?

2001-03-08 Thread Brian Murphy
there is a pkgadd and pkgrm tool for Solaris. Might want to hunt google for a tutorial, but it is similar. Brian Murphy -Original Message- From: Joe Emenaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:29 PM To: Debian User Subject: 'dselect'-like tool for Solar

'dselect'-like tool for Solaris?

2001-03-08 Thread Joe Emenaker
This isn't really a debian question as much as a Solaris question, but I'm not sure the Solaris people would understand what I'm trying to describe. Does anyone know of a tool like 'dselect' (or even 'dpkg') that I could use on a Solaris box for adding/removi

Re: dselect help

2001-03-08 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:51:44PM -0500, paul j botelho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried using dselect to uninstall some packages. Unfortunately I did > not notice the various other packages that depended on it. Now dselect > wants to uninstall all these packages. Luckily I chos

dselect/apt-get problem

2001-03-07 Thread Dominique Rousset
Hello, I'm using woody from ftp.fr.debian.org. Since this morning update may obsolete/local list of packages has abnormally become large. In fact, there should be nearly only console-tool in it. Now every package beginning with a letter between m and z in th alphabetical order has become obso

dselect inconsistencies

2001-03-07 Thread Christian Schneider
Hi, I've got aproblem with dselect. I had apt-get dist-upgrade my system (unstable 2.2.17) and it installed perl 5.6 and deleted at least parts of 5.005. dselect now tells me that base-perl (apparently part of perl 5.6) conflicts with data-dumper which is part of perl 5.005 and suggests to r

dselect help

2001-03-05 Thread paul j botelho
I tried using dselect to uninstall some packages. Unfortunately I did not notice the various other packages that depended on it. Now dselect wants to uninstall all these packages. Luckily I chose "no" to this uninstallation. My question is: Is there a way to tell dselect to go b

Re: dselect problems

2001-02-27 Thread SamBozo Debian User
mike polniak wrote: > > SamBozo Debian User wrote: > > dselect says access method is already locked .??? > > how do I unlock it? > > deslect is still running. so find it and kill -9 > -- > LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve

Re: dselect problems

2001-02-27 Thread mike polniak
SamBozo Debian User wrote: > dselect says access method is already locked .??? > how do I unlock it? deslect is still running. so find it and kill -9 -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it ~~~

dselect problems

2001-02-27 Thread SamBozo Debian User
dselect says access method is already locked .??? how do I unlock it? this was due to my attempted installing bluefish from a .deb file on the hd not I can't get back in to make it look on the web sites? Sam Morgan

Upgraded to "testing" + 2.4.2 kernel, and dselect + SOCKS nit working

2001-02-27 Thread Stan Brown
sources-list to point at testing, went ito dselect, and did an "install". Then I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel, built and installed it using kernel-package. Now I have several problems, the bigest one of which is that dslect does not work anymore. Specificaly, I get messages like "Some

Re: dselect does not offer CD as an install choice, why?

2001-02-09 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi again, > Another candidate would be apt, if it's there. Try putting the CDs > in (no need to mount them) and issuing 'apt-cdrom add'. This should > put them into your apt sources.list. Then select 'apt' as access > metod from dselect. > > nfs

Re: dselect does not offer CD as an install choice, why?

2001-02-08 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi Stan, > Problem is now when I go inot dselect and take choice 1, I am not > offered the choice of installing from the CD's. Which choices *are* you offered. I get cdrom as the first option. Another candidate would be apt, if it's there. Try putting the CDs in (no need to

dselect does not offer CD as an install choice, why?

2001-02-08 Thread Stan Brown
CheapBytes (good service there). Problem is now when I go inot dselect and take choice 1, I am not offered the choice of installing from the CD's. I have tried this both with, and witout one of teh CD's mounted. What have I done wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:25:00PM -0200, Jose Gracia Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Calm down! If you want, you can use a simpler apt-get interface called > console-apt - it requires a ncurses package. Or aptitude, which I believe is an update on capt. Rather different n woody, potato, and s

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-02-02 Thread Jose Gracia Neto
Calm down! If you want, you can use a simpler apt-get interface called console-apt - it requires a ncurses package. Now, for dselect you'll get used to it quickly. If you want a graphical browser like Netscape, you'll have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following:

Re: Holding packages w/o dselect

2001-02-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
James Di Toro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've looked through the help screens and man pages of both dpkg and > apt-get and I can't find anything that will let me place a package version > on hold using these tools. I'd like to avoid using dselect if possible &

Holding packages w/o dselect

2001-02-01 Thread James Di Toro
I've looked through the help screens and man pages of both dpkg and apt-get and I can't find anything that will let me place a package version on hold using these tools. I'd like to avoid using dselect if possible since a) the structure of the categorys is at times unintutive,

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Casey Webster
gt; Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when > they made dselect? > I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., > /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is there any easy way? > Any

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > > Good people of the community- > > > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users > > when they made dselect? >

RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Alec Clews
Maybe you should use 'dpkg ' in this situation.   Yes deselect is awkward   And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-(((   -Original Message-From: hzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject:

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when > they made dselect? > I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g

Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread hzi
Good people of the community-       Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect?     I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is the

Re: help: Removing a package with dselect -- pre-removal fails

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Loga
t; >Thanks in advance for any help! > >Cheers, > >Lukas > >dselect - Install reports: >=== >Removing spong-client ... >Stopping spong client programs: spong-clientdpkg: error processing >spong-client (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned erro

help: Removing a package with dselect -- pre-removal fails

2001-01-26 Thread Lukas Ruf
What do I need to do to remove a package that was broken during the installation process ? Below, please find the trials I already run N-times. Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers, Lukas dselect - Install reports: === Removing spong-client ... Stopping spong client programs: spong

Re: package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
> Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't > because it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g. This > won't do, so I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up > with the dependancy problem screen, with them re-selected. Why

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