Bug#284648: Fwd: R: Bug#284648: Configuration problems with aptitude
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Subject: R: Bug#284648: Configuration problems with aptitude
Date: Thursday 09 December 2004 08:32
From: "Patrick Zanon - Isolcell Italia S.p.A." <patrick.zanon@isolcell.it>
To: "Frans Pop" <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
Thanks for the fast reply.
> > 1. The boot loader has made some problem on the other disk to
> > pre-existent Windows XP (which cannot boot anymore). Any
>
> solution for
>
> > that?
> > See our FAQ [1], question 27. Maybe that applies to your problem.
ok, thanks, I'm going to try...
> > 2. It was not possible to find "cvs" into aptitude: there was some
> > "corruption into the files" (the message of aptitude) and I had to
> > launch dselect to update the package list and to find cvs again.
>
> What do you mean by "cvs"? The package cvs?
Yes I do.
> Sounds like something not related to the installation system.
I do not know what you mean for installation system problem: aptitude is
the default package handler used by the installation process; it has
showed this problem about the selection of cvs; I do not know if it is
due to erroneous downloaded informations or to other things. What I can
say about the installation procedutre is:
1. the autoconfiguration of the computer for the download was ok (except
XP failure...)
2. I selected in the "task selection" (formerly) the items "Desktop
application" (or something like that) and "Select single applications"
(or something like that).
3. aptitude started, after some dowloads, and I tried to select "gcc"
4. then I de-selected "gcc" which disappeared from the entrire list (!)
as well as "cvs" which was the most important package I have to install
on this computer
5. I had to close aptitude and to finish the installation procedure;
6. in order to achieve my targets I had to log as root and to use
dselect which worked fine...
Thanks for any information
Patrick Zanon
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