Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Adobe provides a .deb package: >  Seems to install fine.  I'll test it when I get back to my X console > at home.  :) For those playing along at home: It works. :) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> Anyway, today at least, Adobe provides a .deb package: > > But there you've still got the `doesn't automatically update via APT' > situation, don't you ... Yup, yup. It's just cleaner than the "fire and forget" approach the flashp

Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > Hmm again. Okay, so I've just found something which makes me even > less thrilled with Debian's approach (although this may be a new thing > Adobe is doing so not really Debian's fault). Anyway, today at least, > Adobe provides a .deb package: > > > http://fp

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> IANAL, but I believe that's an open question.  It prolly doesn't >> comply with the license document, but license documents do not have >> the force of law (much to the dislike of software publishers >> everywhere).  I haven't agreed t

Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: > Either get the modules installed or remove the > kernel from /boot ... > update-initramfs doesn't actually care where or how the kernel/modules > were installed.  It just iterates over the kernels it finds in /boot > building initramfs's.  ...

Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Jeffry Smith writes: >> dpkg is failing because update-initramfs is trying to build >> an initramfs for a kernel that doesn't have modules installed. >> >> You can also run update-initramfs manually (sudo update-initramfs -k >> all),

Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jeffry Smith writes: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Lori Nagel wrote: > > > > > > jastiv@localhost:/var/log$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 > > dpkg: /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 not found. > > > > then I tried on a file I know was installed by the package manager. > >

Re: Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Lori Nagel wrote: > > > jastiv@localhost:/var/log$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 > dpkg: /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 not found. > > then I tried on a file I know was installed by the package manager. > > jastiv@localhost:/var/log$ dpkg -S /u