One quick comment on the script - in Ubuntu 10.10 the current libcurl
development package is libcurl4-openssl-dev - same as Debian Squeeze, etc,
so the libcurl3-dev from 10.04 no longer applies to 10.10.

Regards,
Lee - K5DAT


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Peter Gamache/KC0TFB
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Noted.  I've switched the script to use apt-get for now, since it's the
> "standard" way to do things in Ubuntu.
>
> I was unaware that the package databases were not synchronized.  That's
> not made clear but after a little Googling, it looks like this problem has
> bitten others as well.  Apparently the magic incantation needed is
> "aptitude keep-all", but I'm not willing to put that in the script, since
> it would tamper with the package database in ways most users wouldn't
> expect. Safer just to use apt-get, I think...
>
> Regards,
> -PG
>
> David A Aitcheson wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > On additional observation I see one big difference...
> >
> > You are using "Aptitude" where I use "apt-get" exclusively.
> >
> > They use separate package management databases that until recently could
> > not be synced with each other.
> >
> > That is why the major attempted delete was attempted by the script; also
> > anything that happens in a script is not logged, thus the lack of items
> > in the log.
> >
> > Dave
>
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