Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything
On 15 September 2012 19:45, Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/15/12 21:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 12:53:46, Ed Jabbour wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace
>>> some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a
>>> bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53
>>> yields:
>>>
>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>
>>> I'm not up to reinstalling 190 packages. apt-get install that pkg
>>> just tells me that "libavcodec53 is already the newest version". Is
>>> there any way around this? Is it possible to easily replace the deb-
>>> multimedia pkgs with the Debian ones?
>>
>>
>> It's possible. I've done it with aptitude by looking up each package
>> from the list generated by the command below and selecting the Debian
>> version instead of the deb-multimedia version.
>>
>> aptitude search ~S~i~Omultimedia
>>
>> With apt-get you would have to build up a big command line like
>>
>> apt-get install package1/version1 package2/versions ...
>>
>> because there are lots of interdependencies which would get in the way.
>
> You can find packages from deb-multimedia without aptitude as well. Like so
>
> $ dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\n' \
> | xargs -d'\n' sh -euf -c '
> apt-cache showpkg "$@" \
> | sed -ne"
> s/^Package: //p;
> /^Versions:/,/^Reverse Depends:/{
> \_^[^[:space:]].*(/var/lib/dpkg/status)_p;
> };" \
> | sed -ne"N; /_deb.multimedia_/P;"
> ' sh
>
I tried this on a wheezy installation, and it failed, so I tried
sending it to a 'dpkg.txt' and I got a null output on it although I
know that I do have some files from that repository. I'd like to know
how to get it working on wheezy please?
Thanks
Sharon.
> Result of this command will be list of packages, which are installed
> (referenced
> from /var/lig/dpkg/status) and that are available from deb-multimedia. If
> this package
> version also available from other source (like squeeze repository), it
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