Re: Virtual Package list
On 2016-07-07 15:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > When aptitude is run in interactive mode, it shows a list of > Virtual Packages > virtual, which is 8267 lines long on my > jessie laptop. Where does aptitude get this list from? > Does it laboriously construct it from Provides:, Replaces:, > and Conflicts: lines in the Packages files and then cache > it to speed things up? Only from Provides, Replaces and Conflicts are not taken into account. Cheers, Sven
Virtual Package list
When aptitude is run in interactive mode, it shows a list of Virtual Packages > virtual, which is 8267 lines long on my jessie laptop. Where does aptitude get this list from? Does it laboriously construct it from Provides:, Replaces:, and Conflicts: lines in the Packages files and then cache it to speed things up? If not, where is there a list of such packages that dates from post-2012? Cheers, David.
Re: pick invalid ones from package list
On Lu, 26 iul 10, 01:20:10, T o n g wrote: Hi, I'm wondering what's the best way to pick invalid package names from a package list. I am keeping a package list of my installed packages, but over the time, package can be retired, obsoleted, or simple increase in version in its name. I just want to pick out all those invalid ones. How are you creating that list? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: dpkg package list
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Wayne Topalinux...@gmail.com wrote: Hinko Kocevar wrote: Hi, Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' listing? # dpkg -l libera* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===-===-== rn libera-gbeth none (no description available) pn libera-pll none (no description available) Sure is. You just have to read the dpkg | aptitude | apt-get man pages and look the the purge command. Right. I managed to get rid of the second line by issuing: # dpkg --forget-old-unavail But the first one changed status to (don't know for sure when): un libera-gbethnone (no description available) # dpkg -P libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. # dpkg --forget-old-unavail # dpkg -l libera-gbeth un libera-gbethnone (no description available) # dpkg --force-all -r libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. # dpkg -r libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. Thank you, HK -- .. the more I see the less I believe.., AE AoR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: dpkg package list
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:12:25 +0200 Hinko Kocevar hinkoce...@gmail.com wrote: ... I managed to get rid of the second line by issuing: # dpkg --forget-old-unavail But the first one changed status to (don't know for sure when): un libera-gbethnone (no description available) # dpkg -P libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. # dpkg --forget-old-unavail # dpkg -l libera-gbeth un libera-gbethnone (no description available) # dpkg --force-all -r libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. # dpkg -r libera-gbeth dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed. http://madduck.net/blog/2009.08.11:speed-up-dpkg-on-older-systems/ Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
dpkg package list
Hi, Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' listing? # dpkg -l libera* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersion Description +++-===-===-== rn libera-gbethnone (no description available) pn libera-pll none (no description available) Best regards, Hinko -- .. the more I see the less I believe.., AE AoR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: dpkg package list
Hinko Kocevar wrote: Hi, Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' listing? # dpkg -l libera* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersion Description +++-===-===-== rn libera-gbethnone (no description available) pn libera-pll none (no description available) Sure is. You just have to read the dpkg | aptitude | apt-get man pages and look the the purge command. WT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list
it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm trying to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is missing but with the current state of ia32-apt-get it doesn't seem to be installable. Any ideas on how to fix things? I really need it for a talk tomorrow thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list
On Mon,06.Jul.09, 18:55:25, Micha Feigin wrote: it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm trying to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is missing but with the current state of ia32-apt-get it doesn't seem to be installable. Any ideas on how to fix things? ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. I really need it for a talk tomorrow Are you using *unstable* for a production system? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:04:47 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,06.Jul.09, 18:55:25, Micha Feigin wrote: it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm trying to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is missing but with the current state of ia32-apt-get it doesn't seem to be installable. Any ideas on how to fix things? ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. I really need it for a talk tomorrow Are you using *unstable* for a production system? Of course. Stable is way too old for a desktop/laptop and my personal experience with testing is that it breaks a lot more often than unstalble and stays broken for a lot longer when it does. Appart for things that were my fault playing with seriously experimental stuff unstable broke on me maybe once in the last several years, and I like things updating often ... I also develop cutting edge things and thus depend quite a bit on cutting edge features. Regards, Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. I downgraded some packages to testing (ia32-libs, gcc, gcc libs, libc6, libc6-i386, a few other random libraries) and now everything including gcc -m32 works again. I really need it for a talk tomorrow Are you using *unstable* for a production system? Normally works fine of course, but obviously problems can and occasionally do crop up (this ia32-apt-get thing was _seriously_ botched), so doing an upgrade a day before an important talk is not a very good idea... :/ -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:56:38 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. I downgraded some packages to testing (ia32-libs, gcc, gcc libs, libc6, libc6-i386, a few other random libraries) and now everything including gcc -m32 works again. I really need it for a talk tomorrow Are you using *unstable* for a production system? Normally works fine of course, but obviously problems can and occasionally do crop up (this ia32-apt-get thing was _seriously_ botched), so doing an upgrade a day before an important talk is not a very good idea... :/ It was a few days ago, I was just so busy with other things that I somehow ignored it or didn't notice it ... not even sure how long it's broken -Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On my boxes I install a small Debian stable on its own partition for service and rescue purposes, an alternative to the many live-CD distros. I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many drivers, but no X. I have also tried to lift the package list from existing live-cd distros, but it did not work out - and would have contained distro- specific packages anyway, which is something I'd rather avoid. Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? TIA for all the wisdom I will receive! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
SpamHog wrote: Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel standard selection ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant # just in case :) less bzip2 # scripting usage python vim # my boss likes it I don't mc # monitoring - very nice zabbix-agent # killall is nice psmisc # networking screen ethtool iproute # we run on xfs xfsprogs xfsdump # misc stuff acl curl subversion # SSH Stuff openssh-client openssh-server i'm also open to suggestions - puppet is next on the list to be added as it can manage all those things centrally hth martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you have violated my licence and are required to urinate publicly. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would just do a wget and a dpkg. As an alternative, debfoster + a long install list. I could start from the app list of a live cd. Doesn't look too hard. Once I give it a try I'll post on whether I overrated the task.
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many drivers, but no X. Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? When I install, I do a minimal install (don't select any tasks, not even standard), then set up aptitude. For my spare box (used both for accessing the main box, but also as a reference box in case the main box goes down), I install a fair bit. I generally include X in case there are any pdf docs I need or if I need a graphical browser. For that purpose, I include links2. Since I may want to print out more than plain-text, I include apsfilter and gs-gpl in addition to lpr. I include the docs for most things. I didn't include the tar doc package since mc will handle it natively. I don't create a metapackage. It doesn't take me long to go down my usual list and select what I need. I hope this helps. Doug. Here's the list but I'll remove the X stuff from it. FYI, the list is created with # aptitude search '~i!~M' (installed not automatically) i adduser - Add and remove users and groups i anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time i apsfilter - Magic print filter with automatic file typ i apt-doc - Documentation for APT i apt-howto-en- example-based guide to APT (English) i apt-utils - APT utility programs i aptitude- terminal-based apt frontend i aptitude-doc-en - English manual for aptitude, a terminal-ba i bash- The GNU Bourne Again SHell i bwm-ng - small and simple console-based bandwidth m i cron- management of regular background processin i debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf i debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents i debian-reference-en - Debian system administration guide, Englis i dnsmasq - A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP server i doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format i doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free) i dosfstools - Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT f i ed - The classic unix line editor i exim4 - metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installa i fdutils - Linux floppy utilities i file- Determines file type using magic numbers i grub- GRand Unified Bootloader i grub-doc- Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader i gs-gpl - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter i gsfonts-x11 - Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 i hwb - The Hardware Book i icewm - wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window man i iptables- administration tools for packet filtering i less- Pager program similar to more i libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 opti i libpaper-utils - Library for handling paper characteristics i links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and t i linux-image-686 - Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PII i logrotate - Log rotation utility i lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system i lrzsz - Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transf i lynx- Text-mode WWW Browser i mailx - A simple mail user agent i makepasswd - Generate and encrypt passwords i man-db - The on-line manual pager i manpages- Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux syste i mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manag i menu- generates programs menu for all menu-aware i mime-support- MIME files 'mime.types' 'mailcap', and s i minicom
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would just do a wget and a dpkg. As an alternative, debfoster + a long install list. I could start from the app list of a live cd. Doesn't look too hard. Once I give it a try I'll post on whether I overrated the task. there is a terminal metapackage that i worked on a while back, may need some tweeking still (kind of left it orphaned for the time being) http://www.cli-apps.org/content/show.php/terminalphile?content=70610 let me know if it helps jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synaptic and the error message was that the gnustep-back-0.11 that terminal.app depends on is not available, and that is the reason why it can't be installed. Synaptic told me what I've written on the previous email. I ran those searches and no output resulted. The packages are not installed. Pardon my ignorance, but I usually upgrade packages without paying attention to the distribution they fit in. My system is currently a lenny/sid. How do I go about bringing it to a single distribution (the latest unstable is the preferred)? Daniel Santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On 09/14/2007 07:02 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synaptic and the error message was that the gnustep-back-0.11 that terminal.app depends on is not available, and that is the reason why it can't be installed. Synaptic told me what I've written on the previous email. I ran those searches and no output resulted. The packages are not installed. Pardon my ignorance, but I usually upgrade packages without paying attention to the distribution they fit in. My system is currently a lenny/sid. How do I go about bringing it to a single distribution (the latest unstable is the preferred)? Daniel Santos Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list only has unstable sources in it. Then do aptitude update In aptitude ncurses interface, you can find out what packages don't belong in unstable by going into the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Another option is to run aptitude search '~i!~Astable' . Don't uninstall everything you find using those methods. They just speed up the research of finding out what to remove. After you've removed any packages that clearly block your upgrade to Sid, you can do the traditional distribution upgrade procedure: aptitude upgrade aptitude dist-upgrade This page describes the old upgrade procedure using apt-get: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html You'll probably want to use aptitude instead, but the ideas are the same. After you've upgraded to Sid, you'll probably want to reinstall some of the Lenny programs that had to be removed during the upgrade. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : Did you try to 'apt-get update' first? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Package list problem
Yes. In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains there because some other package depends on it. Probably it is hiding the same package on one of the repositories configured. Is there some documentation on the package list format and how can I search it for the packages that keep the phantom package in the list ? Daniel Santos Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : Did you try to 'apt-get update' first? Regards, Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
On 09/12/2007 06:46 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : oraculo:/home/dlsa# apt-get install terminal.app Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: terminal.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.11 (= 0.11.0) but it is not installable Depends: gnustep-gpbs (= 0.11.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Then I ran a dpkg -C to get a list of broken packages and it showed me nothing I usually use synaptic to do package mgmt, and the error it shows me when I try to install it, is that this package is from a repository no longer in the list, and that some package that is installed depends on dependencies of it. Is it possible to know which packages are blocking the installation of this one ? Is it possible to clean the package list from these packages that have no know location but are on the list because of dependencies ? (maybe by uninstalling the ones that depend on them) Many thanks Daniel Santos I suggest going into aptitude's interactive interface as a normal user. Aptitude will let you see what packages depend upon gnustep-back and gnustep-gpbs. From the command line, you might do this: aptitude search '~i~Dgnustep-back' aptitude search '~i~Dgnustep-gpbs' But the curses interface makes research easier. Your difficulties probably stem from creating a mixed system. Try to make sure your system is fully Etch or Lenny or Sid--not a mixture of Etch, Lenny and Sid--and you'll have fewer headaches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package list problem
Daniel Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains there because some other package depends on it. Probably it is hiding the same package on one of the repositories configured. Sounds kind of strange to me ... (but I'm no expert either) Is there some documentation on the package list format and how can I search it for the packages that keep the phantom package in the list ? I think you mean reverse dependencies. Try apt-cache rdepends terminal.app Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Package list problem
Hello, I am running dpkg version 1.14.4. I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't know if dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories) When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output : oraculo:/home/dlsa# apt-get install terminal.app Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: terminal.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.11 (= 0.11.0) but it is not installable Depends: gnustep-gpbs (= 0.11.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Then I ran a dpkg -C to get a list of broken packages and it showed me nothing I usually use synaptic to do package mgmt, and the error it shows me when I try to install it, is that this package is from a repository no longer in the list, and that some package that is installed depends on dependencies of it. Is it possible to know which packages are blocking the installation of this one ? Is it possible to clean the package list from these packages that have no know location but are on the list because of dependencies ? (maybe by uninstalling the ones that depend on them) Many thanks Daniel Santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transfering installed package list to another computer
I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the same package list currently installed. Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some extent with dpkg but that looses the automatically installed flag). Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 22:10 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the same package list currently installed. Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some extent with dpkg but that looses the automatically installed flag). I use aptitude -F %p search \!~M~i~T to retrieve a list of non-automatically installed packages for this purpose. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:10:46PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the same package list currently installed. Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some extent with dpkg but that looses the automatically installed flag). Use `dpkg --get-selections somefile.txt` on the configured machine. Then do `dpkg --set-selections somefile.txt` on the target. Obviously, you need to get somefile.txt to the target. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer
On Sep 20, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:10:46PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the same package list currently installed. Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some extent with dpkg but that looses the automatically installed flag). Use `dpkg --get-selections somefile.txt` on the configured machine. Then do `dpkg --set-selections somefile.txt` on the target. Obviously, you need to get somefile.txt to the target. Also, then do an 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' -- J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to get package list
H0wdy... i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the progs (i need only the package list). all the configuration (/etc) i have allready copied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get package list
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:34:36PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the progs (i need only the package list). Debian makes it nice and easy to get a list of all installed packages: # dpkg --get-selections aalib1 install abcde install adduser install ... -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get package list
On Saturday 12 August 2006 10:34 am, Jabka Atu wrote:
H0wdy...
i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the
progs (i need only the package list).
dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' /path/to/output/dpkg-filelist
Sample output looks like :
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
Name
a2ps
a52dec
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Re: debian package list
Hello Simon, Simon wrote: Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the new install? dpkg --get-selections should bring up all you need. Mart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian package list
Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:01 +0200, Mart Frauenlob a écrit : Hello Simon, Simon wrote: Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the new install? dpkg --get-selections should bring up all you need. ... to be piped into a dpkg --set-selections on the new host, like in ssh old-host dpkg --get-selections | dpkg --set-selections ; apt-get dselect-upgrade ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com **
debian package list
Hi There, Im installing a new server to replace one of our old ones. Its a LAMP(PHP) server, so i am installing a nice fresh version of sarge. The old server was running sarge as well... Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the new install? Thanks Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian package list (dont worry - got it)
Simon wrote: Hi There, Im installing a new server to replace one of our old ones. Its a LAMP(PHP) server, so i am installing a nice fresh version of sarge. The old server was running sarge as well... Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the new install? Note to self, put on screen -read docs first. Sorry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Piped package list
I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could save a package list that could later be piped as input to return a system to an identical list of packages with one command. Am I crazy, and if not, how is this done? TIA, Aaron __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Piped package list
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:17:01AM -0700, Aaron Peters wrote: I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could save a package list that could later be piped as input to return a system to an identical list of packages with one command. Am I crazy, and if not, how is this done? One method of cloning debian installs is to take a current debian machine that is setup with the packages you want. Run the command dpkg --get-selections ~/selectionfile. Then, after the base install on other machines use that file and do: dpkg --set-selections ./selectionfile apt-get dselect-upgrade. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Piped package list
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Aaron Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could save a package list that could later be piped as input to return a system to an identical list of packages with one command. Am I crazy, and if not, how is this done? No, not crazy at all. It's a very useful feature. dpkg --get-selections /file/to/output.txt cat /file/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections apt-get upgrade (man dpkg for more information.) HTH HAND, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #12: Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. pgpo1dLVVSCp2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Piped package list
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: Please see my reply to this. dpkg --get-selections /file/to/output.txt There is no need to shunt stderr as well, since if anything is written to it (unlikely), it will taint the file. cat /file/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections apt-get upgrade No, you *must* do: apt-get dselect-upgrade. (man dpkg for more information.) Heh, yes, it *is* worth reading. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Piped package list
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:58:36 +0100 Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: Please see my reply to this. dpkg --get-selections /file/to/output.txt There is no need to shunt stderr as well, since if anything is written to it (unlikely), it will taint the file. True. Just a (potentially bad) habit I've gotten into for piping output from GUI stuff into a text file. cat /file/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections apt-get upgrade No, you *must* do: apt-get dselect-upgrade. Yep, thanks for the correction. Looks like I should have done man apt-get in addition to recommending man dpkg. :-) (man dpkg for more information.) Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #29: Do you remember when you only had to pay for Windows when *you* were the one that broke them? pgpyfgg1jlSgL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Piped package list
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:42:10 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could save a package list that could later be piped as input to return a system to an identical list of packages with one command. Am I crazy, and if not, how is this done? One method of cloning debian installs is to take a current debian machine that is setup with the packages you want. Run the command dpkg --get-selections ~/selectionfile. Then, after the base install on other machines use that file and do: dpkg --set-selections ./selectionfile apt-get dselect-upgrade. The dpkg --get-selections/--set-selections is a great way to save the energy that you've spent. Yet it is not enough. Go to the List-Archive http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ and follow the recent thread of Configuration DB, if you want to save more of your energy. Subject: Configuration DB Date:Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:20:53 -0400 tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving Package List
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 15:57, Sam Halliday wrote: hello, i know this is probably somthing which is discussed often on the list... but i was unable to find anything in the archives, the apt FAQ or several google searches... so i'm posting to the list. i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i am very happy with. i would like to move this configuration to another machine which i am performing a fresh install on. how can i get a list of all the packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one? also... can i keep the aptitude package states? it seems a bit of a hack, and cause all kinds of hell if i were to just copy over /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates Current machine perform this: dpkg --get-selections oldmachine.pkgs Move the file oldmachine.pkgs to the New Machine New machine perform this: dpkg --set-selections oldmachine.pkgs then: apt-get dselect-upgrade All should be well. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Moving Package List
hello, i know this is probably somthing which is discussed often on the list... but i was unable to find anything in the archives, the apt FAQ or several google searches... so i'm posting to the list. i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i am very happy with. i would like to move this configuration to another machine which i am performing a fresh install on. how can i get a list of all the packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one? also... can i keep the aptitude package states? it seems a bit of a hack, and cause all kinds of hell if i were to just copy over /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel pgpQmxRSZdzYk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Moving Package List
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:57, Sam Halliday wrote: i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i am very happy with. i would like to move this configuration to another machine which i am performing a fresh install on. how can i get a list of all the packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one? Old machine: dpkg --get-selections myselections copy 'myselections' over to new machine New machine: dpkg --set-selections myselections -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Moving Package List
Hello, From 'man dpkg': To make a local copy of the package selection states: dpkg --get-selections myselections You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with: dpkg --set-selections myselections Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the selection state on the requested packages. You will need some other application to actually download and install the requested packages. For example, run dselect and choose Install. Cheers, Shaun On Fri May 28, 2004 12h57, Sam Halliday wrote: hello, i know this is probably somthing which is discussed often on the list... but i was unable to find anything in the archives, the apt FAQ or several google searches... so i'm posting to the list. i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i am very happy with. i would like to move this configuration to another machine which i am performing a fresh install on. how can i get a list of all the packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one? also... can i keep the aptitude package states? it seems a bit of a hack, and cause all kinds of hell if i were to just copy over /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates cheers, Sam
Re: Explanation of package list at www.debian.org. (solved)
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at www.debian.org. Some packages have a red label, security, behind them. Does this mean that this package is security enhanced or that it is a security risk? It means that the package comes from the archive at security.debian.org, which in turn indicates that it's had an update to fix a security vulnerability since the last stable release. I just want to thank you Colin. Your help, and everybody elses help, is much appreciated by me (and I think I speak for all newbies here). /Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Explanation of package list at www.debian.org.
Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at www.debian.org. Some packages have a red label, security, behind them. Does this mean that this package is security enhanced or that it is a security risk? This might be a silly question, but I am confused because I can't find a key that explains what it means... non-free and contrib are selfexplaining, but security is not. Thank you in advance. /Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explanation of package list at www.debian.org.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at www.debian.org. Some packages have a red label, security, behind them. Does this mean that this package is security enhanced or that it is a security risk? It means that the package comes from the archive at security.debian.org, which in turn indicates that it's had an update to fix a security vulnerability since the last stable release. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get and gzipped Package list files
Antti Peltonen wrote: Hi, Our companys proxy server is pain in the ass.. all web access _must_ go thru it and on some really mind boglingly stupid reason it decompresses Gzipped files as default. And suprise suprise the maintaince crew is unwilling to change this behaviour. Because of this behaviour apt-get cant receive the Package files correctly since it pipes files thru gzip which returns an error because its no longer gzipped file since the proxy decompressed it allready. After reading several how-tos etc and man pages I still cant find any suitable configuration parameter for changing this behaviour of apt-get so that it would not pipe the data thru gzip. Has anyone _any_ idea howto get around this? I could allways make redirected sockets to one of our unix servers and thru there bypass the proxy but its ugly,ugly,ugly way to achieve this. If there is no ready wrapper or patched apt-get or that mystical config parameter which im not able to find anywhere I probably need to sacrifice few minutes for coding a patch + some CPU time for gcc -) Didn't you ask this last month? Well, your the judge of what is ugly, ugly, ugly but if you have access to one of your Unix servers, and if it has direct internet access (which I'm guessing it does by your proposal) and a perl parser and web server, you could run apt-cacher on it. (Anyone guessing by now that I like that program? ;) ) Then again, maybe it's ugly because you don't really have access to those Unix servers either. Your network isn't doing NAT and only proxied data passes to the internet? No ftp or ssh? If you are the person who asked this last month, then I guess you looked into that apt program that allows you to download on one system, save to removable media, and then upgrade off of that media from the other system. I hope then that someone else knows this undocumented param, or that it isn't difficult for you to hack it in so you can download the Packages instead of the compressed Packages.gz file. Before you do all that work, have you tried downloading a .deb package via http? If they also get killed by the proxy virus scanner, getting the Packages file down is not worth anything. I second the opinions stated last time. If the scanner is choking on a gzipped text file, how can it do better on a .deb? You've sent a scathing email to the virus scan company right? ;) http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/everybuddy/ (You may want to find a more local mirror.) -- Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get and gzipped Package list files
Hi, Our companys proxy server is pain in the ass.. all web access _must_ go thru it and on some really mind boglingly stupid reason it decompresses Gzipped files as default. And suprise suprise the maintaince crew is unwilling to change this behaviour. Because of this behaviour apt-get cant receive the Package files correctly since it pipes files thru gzip which returns an error because its no longer gzipped file since the proxy decompressed it allready. After reading several how-tos etc and man pages I still cant find any suitable configuration parameter for changing this behaviour of apt-get so that it would not pipe the data thru gzip. Has anyone _any_ idea howto get around this? I could allways make redirected sockets to one of our unix servers and thru there bypass the proxy but its ugly,ugly,ugly way to achieve this. If there is no ready wrapper or patched apt-get or that mystical config parameter which im not able to find anywhere I probably need to sacrifice few minutes for coding a patch + some CPU time for gcc -) -- - Antti Peltonen - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] on #hameenlinna, #projekti - - 31173 writing.. who needs it anyway? - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Review of Non-US package list?
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:04:06AM -0400, Frederick (Rick) A Niles wrote: Does the list of packages listed as non-US get reviewed from time to time? Looking over the list, it seems like all the SSL stuff is considered non-US. I understand why this was the case 5 years ago, but between RSA patent expiration and the export laws made less draconian in the past few years, it seems like many of those could be moved back in with the general population of packages. Packages are gradually being moved from non-US/main to main. Those still remaining in non-US/main in unstable are mostly there because either (a) the maintainer isn't very attentive or (b) they have licensing incompatibilities between the GPL and the OpenSSL licence which need to be resolved. Packages in non-US/non-free will probably stay there, as working out whether the new, less restrictive US export regulations can safely be applied to them is much more difficult. If you're talking about stable, then the new export laws were only implemented in Debian very shortly before the last release (and in fact that implementation was one of the things that held up the last release), so the state of non-US in stable isn't very representative. While you're at it, giving a justification for why a package in non-free license doesn't qualify as a free software license would be nice too. I'm not asking for a 500 word essay per package, but I'm sure most of the non-US packages fall into one of 3-6 reasons and the license failures are probably for about the same number of reasons as well. /usr/share/doc/*/copyright will often say. Failing that, it's usually straightforward to compare the licence found there against http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines and spot the parts that don't fit. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Review of Non-US package list?
Does the list of packages listed as non-US get reviewed from time to time? Looking over the list, it seems like all the SSL stuff is considered non-US. I understand why this was the case 5 years ago, but between RSA patent expiration and the export laws made less draconian in the past few years, it seems like many of those could be moved back in with the general population of packages. I'm sure this has got to be a FAQ. So perhaps, you should give a justification for each package in non-US. While you're at it, giving a justification for why a package in non-free license doesn't qualify as a free software license would be nice too. I'm not asking for a 500 word essay per package, but I'm sure most of the non-US packages fall into one of 3-6 reasons and the license failures are probably for about the same number of reasons as well. Having a short web page describing the issue and which packages fall into that catagory wouldn't take too much time. Of course, perhaps this is all already outlined somewhere and I just need the link to the page. (if that's the case, perhaps it should be easier to find. :) Thanks, Rick Niles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and install it on another machine?
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:50:05AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: There's a --set-selections, but it says that does nothing to actually do installing. Right, cause that's the first half. Finish up with dpkg --pending --install -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and install it onanother machine?
I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto another machine - how do I go about doing this? I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've filtered out. How can I get apt to recognise the contents of the file as being a list of packages to install? Is there a better tool for the job? TIA, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and installit on another machine?
Mark Janssen wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:35, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto another machine - how do I go about doing this? I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've filtered out. How can I get apt to recognise the contents of the file as being a list of packages to install? Is there a better tool for the job? Source machine: dpkg --get-selections /tmp/some-file.txt Dest machine: dpkg --put-selections /tmp/some-file.txt --put-selections doesn't seem to be in the man page. There's a --set-selections, but it says that does nothing to actually do installing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Hi and thanks for your help, The machine that i want to install the packages onto does not have an internet connection, my internet is 56k modem dialup through aol/compuserve -nothing against them, its free for a year!- but i prolly wouldnt want to d/l anything of any real size that way, you know like over a meg or two. mw -Original Message- From: Stefan Janecek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:44 PM To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:21, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi, Am 09:17 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. What about deselect - Access method - CDROM No. Nowadays, you should really use APT. (and, as far as i can remember, dselect's cdrom method does not maintain a cache of what's on your CDs) mw: do you have internet connection on the machine you want to install the packages to? if yes: no need to download them to CD first - use 'apt-get install' instead. cheers, Stefan. Thanks in advance, mw. Michelle -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Hi, well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to download there than at home. what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then tie into the connection at work and ... (maybe one day) thanks for your help i going to make sure i have alien installed, that is one cool proggy! mw -Original Message- From: Levi Waldron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:38 PM To: Wathen, Metherion Cc: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? Just curious, why did you make up a CD of .debs and other programs, as opposing to installing directly from a debian online source using apt (ie, apt-get install package-name? If you don't know what I'm talking about, fess up and we'll point you in the right direction. The easiest way to install debs directly from your cd would be: mount /cdrom dpkg -i /cdrom/packagename.deb For non-deb files, alien /cdrom/packagename.tar.gz will convert it to a deb to be installed as above. On November 26, 2002 02:53 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, What kind of info goes into a Packages.gz file (hate to be such a newbie but I'm transferring from the windows world). I looked at 'man apt-cdrom' and got really confused so any help you can offer is appreciated. thanks, mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi, well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to download there than at home. what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then tie into the connection at work and ... (maybe one day) thanks for your help i going to make sure i have alien installed, that is one cool proggy! mw You could download some Debian installation discs from work, then have all the packages and dependencies and be able to add each entire disc in one fell swoop with apt-cdrom add Check the jigdo program from debian.org for the downloading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
hey thanks that's a good idea, im planning on upgrading soon anyway, other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software is available as a downloadable iso or something? thanks, mw. -Original Message- From: Levi Waldron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:25 AM To: Wathen, Metherion Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi, well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to download there than at home. what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then tie into the connection at work and ... (maybe one day) thanks for your help i going to make sure i have alien installed, that is one cool proggy! mw You could download some Debian installation discs from work, then have all the packages and dependencies and be able to add each entire disc in one fell swoop with apt-cdrom add Check the jigdo program from debian.org for the downloading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Hello, Am 14:53 2002-11-26 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Thanks, What kind of info goes into a Packages.gz file (hate to be such a newbie but I'm transferring from the windows world). I looked at 'man apt-cdrom' and got really confused so any help you can offer is appreciated. You need dpkg-scanpackages (already installes with the Base). Please read the manpage for the exactly Syntax. thanks, mw. Michelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
i did some digging around the debian site and found what youre talking about - jidgo. i'll give it a shot after the holiday, however i'd like to know what is a .raw file and what do you do with it after downloading it? --how do you make it into a cd, is my question? thanks in advance, Happy holidays everyone, mw. -Original Message- From: Levi Waldron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:17 PM To: Wathen, Metherion Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: hey thanks that's a good idea, im planning on upgrading soon anyway, other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software is available as a downloadable iso or something? No jigdo iso, just download the program directly - it's small. It's ported to linux and windows. Check the download section of debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: hey thanks that's a good idea, im planning on upgrading soon anyway, other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software is available as a downloadable iso or something? No jigdo iso, just download the program directly - it's small. It's ported to linux and windows. Check the download section of debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
This one time, at band camp, Wathen, Metherion said: i did some digging around the debian site and found what youre talking about - jidgo. i'll give it a shot after the holiday, however i'd like to know what is a .raw file and what do you do with it after downloading it? --how do you make it into a cd, is my question? thanks in advance, Happy holidays everyone, mw. Rename it to .iso - they're the same thing. -- -- | Stephen Gran | Why does a hearse horse snicker,| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | hauling a lawyer away? -- Carl| | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Sandburg| -- msg15772/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Hi, Am 09:17 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. What about deselect - Access method - CDROM Thanks in advance, mw. Michelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Thanks, What kind of info goes into a Packages.gz file (hate to be such a newbie but I'm transferring from the windows world). I looked at 'man apt-cdrom' and got really confused so any help you can offer is appreciated. thanks, mw. -Original Message- From: Michelle Konzack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:25 AM To: Wathen, Metherion Cc: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? Hi again, Am 10:11 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Thanks, The CD's prolly are not in the correct directory structure - where do I go to find out about the correct structure? These are CD's I just burned myself with .debs, tarballs, and such. 1) Make a Packages(.gz) file and put it onto the cdrom... 2) mount the CD-Rom 3) Run dselect 4) Access method - mounted ... Thanks again, mw. Michelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:21, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi, Am 09:17 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. What about deselect - Access method - CDROM No. Nowadays, you should really use APT. (and, as far as i can remember, dselect's cdrom method does not maintain a cache of what's on your CDs) mw: do you have internet connection on the machine you want to install the packages to? if yes: no need to download them to CD first - use 'apt-get install' instead. cheers, Stefan. Thanks in advance, mw. Michelle -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:11:42AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, The CD's prolly are not in the correct directory structure - where do I go to find out about the correct structure? These are CD's I just burned myself with .debs, tarballs, and such. Ah. You can't just tell apt to use any old pile of debs, they need to be in a particular directory structure with certain special files. Copy the debs somewhere, then run apt-ftparchive on them to generate the Packages files that you need, or use debian-cd to build a bunch of Debian cds from a huge pile of .debs. -rob msg14369/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:55:02PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:11:42AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, The CD's prolly are not in the correct directory structure - where do I go to find out about the correct structure? These are CD's I just burned myself with .debs, tarballs, and such. Ah. You can't just tell apt to use any old pile of debs, they need to be in a particular directory structure with certain special files. They don't really need to be in a particular directory structure; that's just convention. As long as you have the certain special files (i.e. Packages.gz, and Sources.gz if necessary), then the Filename: fields in those .debs will sort it out. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Thanks, The CD's prolly are not in the correct directory structure - where do I go to find out about the correct structure? These are CD's I just burned myself with .debs, tarballs, and such. Thanks again, mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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uuups. forgot to CC the list ... -Forwarded Message- From: Stefan Janecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wathen, Metherion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? Date: 20 Nov 2002 16:01:47 +0100 On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. If your CD is a Debian archive (i.e. correct directory structure, Packages.gz files and the like) just do 'apt-cdrom add'. (I suppose you use the apt access method in dselect, which you really should use...) HTH, Stefan. Thanks in advance, mw. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 15:17 schrieb Wathen, Metherion: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. man apt-cdrom Thanks in advance, mw. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
I believe the instructions are here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-cdrom Peter Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. Thanks in advance, mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
man apt-cdrom On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:17:37AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. Thanks in advance, mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package list screen at installation
Hi! When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not install for one reason or another, is it possible to display that list of packages in the same form? Thanks, Luda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list screen at installation
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:51:09AM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not install for one reason or another, is it possible to display that list of packages in the same form? Run dselect. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list screen at installation
hiya, dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds of wacky situations with your system. if you're looking for packages that do specific things, i'd recommend apt-cache search. the format is pretty straight forward. like bash$ apt-cache search nintendo emulator note that spaces between search terms means OR, so use double quotes if you don't want that, and be prepared to pipe to less. after you find the packages you're interested in, bash$ apt-cache show packagename will give you all the details you'd have seen in dselect hth, sean msg13707/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: package list screen at installation
also sprach sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.18.1616 +0100]: dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds of wacky situations with your system. or ditch dselect and use aptitude, which has Undo and other fine features. note that spaces between search terms means OR, i don't think so. from the manpage: Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiple search patterns that are and'd together. -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg13723/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: package list screen at installation
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:06:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: note that spaces between search terms means OR, i don't think so. from the manpage: Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiple search patterns that are and'd together. yeah, my bad. what i meant to say was that using multiple terms would produce more results than the terms combined as a single string, as in apt-cache search encryption library vs. apt-cache search encryption library where the former would produce more results, i just got my binary operators mixed up :) --sean msg13744/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: starting dselect with predefined package list
Osamu Aoki, 2001-Nov-20 20:50 -0800: On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:59:54PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: basically. You should only set selections on a fresh install. Otherwise you have packages from set A the other machine is set B and thus machine A gets the union of the set (i.e. more packages than B and a chance at conflicting packages). True if you do it as described without pattern match. What about using 'dpkg --get-selections \* packages' Then you get all packages listed (non-installed packages as purge) Thus you will get the exact same setting. (someone mentioned on this list) Bloating system can be avoided by this, I think. The package list lists packages that have been removed but not purged, on hold, set for purge but not purged, attempted to install and stuck, as well as simply installed. You should probably change all holds to installs, purge the packages marked deinstalled, fix any half installed packages and then save the output. I did not understand this. Fixing half installed sounds good to me :-) Thanks alot. I look forward to testing this out. And yes, this is for installing a new system that will be a s/w duplicate, and I figure this will shave a little time off the process. thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
starting dselect with predefined package list
Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. Just a thought...I have them once in awhile. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: starting dselect with predefined package list
Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. dpkg --set-selections -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
RE: starting dselect with predefined package list
dumb shell tricks: Well, I frequently use lists of packages (just the names separated by spaces, no line breaks) and do: apt-get install `cat packagelist.txt` -Original Message- From: Jeff [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:06 PM To: debian user list Subject: starting dselect with predefined package list Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. Just a thought...I have them once in awhile. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' DebianAdmin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting dselect with predefined package list
Brian Nelson, 2001-Nov-20 10:32 -0800: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. dpkg --set-selections Okay, after looking this up in man, lemme ask: If I use 'dpkg --get-selections packages' and then 'dpkg --set-selections packages' on another system, and finally run dselect, my selects will be set to those listed in 'packages'? thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: starting dselect with predefined package list
On 21-Nov-2001 Jeff wrote: Brian Nelson, 2001-Nov-20 10:32 -0800: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list loaded properly and then let it start installing. That way, I could pre-build the package list(s) for systems to help stream-line the installation. dpkg --set-selections Okay, after looking this up in man, lemme ask: If I use 'dpkg --get-selections packages' and then 'dpkg --set-selections packages' on another system, and finally run dselect, my selects will be set to those listed in 'packages'? basically. You should only set selections on a fresh install. Otherwise you have packages from set A the other machine is set B and thus machine A gets the union of the set (i.e. more packages than B and a chance at conflicting packages). The package list lists packages that have been removed but not purged, on hold, set for purge but not purged, attempted to install and stuck, as well as simply installed. You should probably change all holds to installs, purge the packages marked deinstalled, fix any half installed packages and then save the output.
Re: starting dselect with predefined package list
Hi, On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:59:54PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If I use 'dpkg --get-selections packages' and then 'dpkg --set-selections packages' on another system, and finally run dselect, my selects will be set to those listed in 'packages'? basically. You should only set selections on a fresh install. Otherwise you have packages from set A the other machine is set B and thus machine A gets the union of the set (i.e. more packages than B and a chance at conflicting packages). True if you do it as described without pattern match. What about using 'dpkg --get-selections \* packages' Then you get all packages listed (non-installed packages as purge) Thus you will get the exact same setting. (someone mentioned on this list) Bloating system can be avoided by this, I think. The package list lists packages that have been removed but not purged, on hold, set for purge but not purged, attempted to install and stuck, as well as simply installed. You should probably change all holds to installs, purge the packages marked deinstalled, fix any half installed packages and then save the output. I did not understand this. Fixing half installed sounds good to me :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
Re: dselect: Package list totally Wrong
Gerd Wilhelm wrote: Hi Debianiens, the third time i have got the following Problem: I tried to install a Package vie dselect, but found out that the Dependencies where not met. One or to wrong keystrokes and dselect wants to _deinstall_ 142 Packages. Does anyone know a way I can tell dselect to adapt the its List to the true state of my system? The Key R for Go back to the state before this List does not help, because i had endet dselect. Thank You for your Help Gerd Hi Gerd- Have you been installing a great many tarballs in your system? I ask this because unless you alien -d x.tgz the packaging system will not recognize the stuff you just installed. HTH. Henry
apt-get package list problem
Hello, I added the line for security updates to my sources list as mentioned on the security web site. Now I get the following message whenever I run apt-get: (voyager):/home/frank# apt-get install kde-base-crypto Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org potato/updates/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_potato_updates_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Couldn't find package kde-base-crypto Unfortunately running apt-get update does not solve the problem, I get the same error message. How do I get the package list for non-US? Here is my sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ potato non-free deb ftp://ftp.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/debian-stuff/KDE2 potato main crypto optional Thanx, Frank
Re: apt-get package list problem
Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ potato non-free deb ftp://ftp.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/debian-stuff/KDE2 potato main crypto optional It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib (well, it works). Greetz, Sebastiaan
Re: apt-get package list problem
Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib (well, it works). Greetz, Sebastiaan I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site http://www.debian.org/security/ So beeing new to debian I just thought follow the instructions on the Debian-site. Thank you, Frank
Re: apt-get package list problem
Thanks, Josip. - Forwarded message from Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Forwarded message from Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get package list problem Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, It should be: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib The web page says deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free And it works. deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib No, this is wrong, just because the non-US archive happens to be on the same site as the security updates, it shouldn't be referenced that way. Something like this should be used: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main non-free I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site http://www.debian.org/security/ So beeing new to debian I just thought follow the instructions on the Debian-site. Well I honestly don't see what went wrong, all of the sources.list lines on www.d.o have been checked and double-checked, you can be sure of that. :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification - End forwarded message -
Re: apt-get/package list troubles
Am 11. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Kurt Lieber so: I'm fairly new to Debian, so I apologize if this is really obvious. That said, I'm trying to install SSH2, which is available here: ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/binary-i 386/ssh2_2.0.13-5.1.deb So, I have the following line in my sources.list file: (among others) deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US non-free That looks good. If I do apt-get update all the package lists update fine and I get no error messages. When I try to do apt-get install ssh2, I get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list What the heck am I doing wrong? (and, as a side note, I know I can download the .deb package manually and install it that way -- but I really want to know why apt-get isn't working for me.) :) Try: apt-cache search ssh See if that pulls up ssh2. Also, OpenSSH, packaged as ssh, has support for the ssh2 protocol. I know that installs :). See the bug reports for ssh, http://bugs.debian.org/ssh, though ( specifically bug 95576 ) if you have IPv6 on your box. Last I checked you have to uncomment the entries for ssh protocol 2 and sftp in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Easy enough, though :). ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Practice socially consious hedonism. Do whatever you want, # as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. - der.hans
apt-get/package list troubles
I'm fairly new to Debian, so I apologize if this is really obvious. That said, I'm trying to install SSH2, which is available here: ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/binary-i 386/ssh2_2.0.13-5.1.deb So, I have the following line in my sources.list file: (among others) deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US non-free If I do apt-get update all the package lists update fine and I get no error messages. When I try to do apt-get install ssh2, I get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list What the heck am I doing wrong? (and, as a side note, I know I can download the .deb package manually and install it that way -- but I really want to know why apt-get isn't working for me.) Thanks. --kurt
automated install/re-install from status file or package list
Does anybody know of a good way of using an old /var/lib/dpkg/status file to quickly reinstall debian. I would like to be able to do this to reduce the amount of time it takes me to re-build a machine after an attack or for installing all the same packages as another web server instead of choosing all packages manually. I have tried the following (rather clumsy) method: # grep -B1 -e install ok /var/lib/dpkg/status \|grep Package: |cut -d -f2 installed.packages # apt-get install `cat installed.packages` This does not work as well as I first thought. plenty of broken packages This is a functionality of apt-get that would come in very handy I think. cheers, Andreas
Re: automated install/re-install from status file or package list
Andreas Hatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a good way of using an old /var/lib/dpkg/status file to quickly reinstall debian. I would like to be able to do this to reduce the amount of time it takes me to re-build a machine after an attack or for installing all the same packages as another web server instead of choosing all packages manually. I have tried the following (rather clumsy) method: # grep -B1 -e install ok /var/lib/dpkg/status \|grep Package: |cut -d -f2 installed.packages # apt-get install `cat installed.packages` This does not work as well as I first thought. plenty of broken packages This is a functionality of apt-get that would come in very handy I think. You're better off using 'dpkg --get-selections selections', and then later 'dpkg --set-selections selections; dselect install'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resetting installed package list?
When I installed Debian 2.2r0 a couple of weeks ago, I did the smallest install possible - I let dselect install the default initial set of packages. Over the past couple of weeks, I've done very small tailoring to the system: turned off all network services, switched a few programs (for instance, purged nvi and installed vim), and updated to the most recent security fixes. This weekend I'm planning on doing a lot of work to the system. I'd like to have a fairly minimal system - only those apps that are absolutely necessary, and little else. To that end, I'm going to be wandering through dselect quite frequently (apt-get is more powerful, but dselect provides a better overview of what is installed and what isn't). One thing that I've noticed about dselect is that if you mark a package (say, marking an installed package for purge), dselect remembers that setting even if you don't go through the process of actually removing that package. That caused me some consternation one evening when I somehow accidentally marked a dozen or so packages for uninstall that I really wanted to leave alone. Is it possible to rebuild the installed package list so that it reflects the actual status of the packages installed, rather than what you last marked them as?
apt-get problem (package list corrupted !)
When i run apt-get update i get a Segmentation fault. The last thing i see is Reading Package lists ... 0% I think my package list is corrupted. How does i reconstruct it ?? Knud
dump package list to file?
I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same packages? How do I do this? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
Re: dump package list to file?
I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same packages? How do I do this? dpkg --get-selections file
