Re: dpkg error messages [was: dselect and apt-get error messages]

2002-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:56:24PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:25:31PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error messages: - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration - When I use

dpkg error messages [was: dselect and apt-get error messages]

2002-11-02 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:25:31PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error messages: - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration - When I use apt-get install dpkg apt debconf: Couldn't configure a

dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Dominique Arpin
J'ai installer tous mes programmes avec apt-get et j'ai aucun problème. Cependant avec dselect, il me dit que je dois installer des packages a causes des dépendances (36 packages) Qui dois-je faire confiance, le système de apt-get ou celui de dselect pour les dépendances et

Re: dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Charles Goyard
Ainsi parlait Dominique Arpin : Qui dois-je faire confiance, le système de apt-get ou celui de dselect pour les dépendances et l'installation des packages? Essaye aptitude. C'est comme dselect, mais en mieux, il fonctionne directement avec apt-get. Il a aussi l'avantage de ne pas bousiller

Re: dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Arthur
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:15:38PM -0400, Dominique Arpin wrote: J'ai installer tous mes programmes avec apt-get et j'ai aucun problème. Cependant avec dselect, il me dit que je dois installer des packages a causes des dépendances (36 packages) Qui dois-je faire confiance, le système

Re: dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Xavier Henner
Tu peux faire confiance aux deux, ils n'ont pas exactment la même méthode apt-get ne prend en compte que les dépendences « réelles » des paquets. dselect lui prend en compte en plus des paquets de dépendances les paquets recommandés et suggérés. Un bon moyen de le voir est d'afficher les

Re: dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Dominique Arpin
merci a tous Xavier Henner a écrit: Tu peux faire confiance aux deux, ils n'ont pas exactment la même méthode apt-get ne prend en compte que les dépendences « réelles » des paquets. dselect lui prend en compte en plus des paquets de dépendances les paquets recommandés et suggérés. Un bon

Re: dselect et apt-get

2002-07-30 Thread Frédéric Giquel
Le 30 juillet 2002 à 19:24 (+0200), Charles Goyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté sur son clavier : Ainsi parlait Dominique Arpin : Qui dois-je faire confiance, le système de apt-get ou celui de dselect pour les dépendances et l'installation des packages? Essaye aptitude. C'est comme dselect,

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote: my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have recently made the experience that dselect worked on a specifig

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-17 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote: my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have recently made

dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread tim
hello well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a comparison. I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly) just downloads the file and calls

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote: hello well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a comparison. I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly) just

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:01:10AM +0200, tim wrote: hello well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a comparison. I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a manual dependency

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:37:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: dselect will generally want to install Recommends while apt-get won't. True. I don't know the internals about when things are called. Both seem to use their own mechanism for initial dependency resolution and then dpkg will

Dselect vs. apt-get... thank you!

2001-07-01 Thread Jeremy
This isn't a question, but a 'thank you' to whoever it was that mentioned in one of the posts sometime this week about doing a dist-upgrade with dselect instead of apt-get dist-upgrade. I'd been trying to upgrade to Woody for about 3 weeks without any success by using the apt-get method. After I

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Thanks for the feedback... (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch2.html#s2.2). However, it only does this up until the first time you exit dselect's Select screen and accept the choices there. All you should need to do is run dselect, turn off all the things it selected for you ('D'

dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've always wondered... 1. equivalency of updating the system is dselect's update EXACTLY equivalent to apt-get update? does one of them update the other? if they're not equivalent, how are they different? 2. intelligence of dependencies and conflicts are dselect and apt-get equally

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Defresne Sylvain
-get method in dselect, then `dselect update' will call `apt-get update'. Nevertheless, `apt-get update' won't update dselect database ... 2. intelligence of dependencies and conflicts are dselect and apt-get equally intelligent when it comes to things like package dependencies

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
Defresne Sylvain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 3. status of the system and updates are dselect and apt-get's knowledge of installed packages, package status, available packages and provided files the same as each other? I guess, since they

dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread paul
Hi Guys, I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a better way? From time to time I drop in to dselect to be able to search and find packages, but if I try to select and install from

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a better way? I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
Please set your mailer line wrap to 72 characters. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Guys, I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: $ apt-get install apt-cache $ man apt-cache $ apt-cache search foo The first step should yield an error messages -- it isn't necessary, because apt-cache is part of the apt package (dpkg -S apt-cache). In addition, one could mention `apt-cache show