Re: Dselect and obsolet packages
Hello, However, it's also got a lot of packages in Obsolete sections. What do I do with these? Obsolete/local packages is packages that: ... 3. in any other way is obsolete or local... ;) Actually, dselect uses Obsolete/local for anything that doesn't exist at the site it's looking at. This means that: *if you point it at a non-us server, it'll show most of the standard distribution as Obsolete/local *if you point it at a US server, it'll show all non-us packages as Obsolete/local *if you point it at the main CD, it'll show all contrib packages as Obsolete/local (and vice versa) et cetera What to do with them: if they're things you want, leave them as they are. If they're things you don't want, uninstall them. If they're libraries, I suppose you press - on them and see if anything pops up in the dependency screen (and then use R if it's something important). Just like any other package, I guess, with the proviso that you can't re-install them from the place dselect is looking at right now (so if you change your mind later, you'll have to find out where you got them from first.) Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect and obsolet packages
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:46:59AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote this: However, it's also got a lot of packages in Obsolete sections. What do I do with these? Obsolete/local packages is packages that: 1. is old and now removed from the distribution. Although some of the packages might still be using them if they aren't updated lately to use the new libraries or so... 2. is a package that you have installed as a deb-package but isn't part of the distribution to begin with. Like if you build a package from source and install it. 3. in any other way is obsolete or local... ;) Hope you are helped. Regards // Marwin -- | Björn Elwhagen aka Marwin Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Student at Wexio University for PGP public key. | | SwedenICQ: 356095 |
Dselect and obsolet packages
I upgraded to slink some time ago, via apt-get, and it's been running smoothly ever since. I hadn't even thought about using dselect again until recently and it upgraded a few thing apt-get hadn't caught. However, it's also got a lot of packages in Obsolete sections. What do I do with these? Here's a sampling of what dselect has: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *** Req base slang0.99.38 0.99.38-6 none --- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section devel --- *** Std develncurses3.4-d 1.9.9g-8.10 none --- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section utils --- *** Std utilslsof 4.28-3 none - Obsolete/local Optional packages - --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs --- *** Opt libs libwraster0 0.14.1-7none *** Opt libs newt0.21 0.21-8 none --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-free/graphics -- *** Opt non-free libjpeg-gif 6a-11 none --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-free/libs --- *** Opt non-free libglide22.4-3 none --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section x11 --- *** Opt x11 xfntbig 3.3.2.3-2 none - Obsolete/local Extra packages - --- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section net --- *** Xtr net opie 2.31-3 none - Obsolete/local Unclassified packages - --- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages without a section --- *** ? ?kernel-image homepc.16 none *** ? ?kernel-image homepc.17 none The last two are my home-brewed kernels built with make-kpkg (2.0.36 and 2.2.1) so I THINK I can just ignore those, but what about the others? Can I remove them? Thx, Gary
