RE: Help with apt
Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt?
If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into
dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato.
Of course, I can always just go download the deb and run dpkg on it, but is
there a better way?
Pax.
-Jonathan
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jjlupa@jamdata.net
On Friday, May 07, 1999 11:05 AM, Wayne Topa [SMTP:wtopa@mindspring.com] wrote:
>
> Subject: Help with apt
> Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:04:48PM +0200
>
> In reply to:Daniel Mashao
>
> Quoting Daniel Mashao(daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za):
> > I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains
> > about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first
> > then remove it. I cannot install the said package (gnotepad+) as the
> > installer (dpkg) refuses. And finally I am in the chicken and egg
> > problem.
> >
> > I have experienced similar problems before and would apprectiate any help
> > to my specific problem. At the same time I would like to encourage all
> > Debian maintainers to think about these kind of problems. They make Debian
> > to look more like Windows (PLEASE take this in a good spirit. I like
> > Debian a lot. In fact I am the only one using it locally) to me. I cannot
> > understand why it does not work and I feel powerless to do anything. Apt
> > cannot install anything even if it is not related to gnome (I have given
> > up on getting it to work on my system) because it complains about the
> > state of that package (gnomepad+).
> >
> > I have tried purging and removing apt (which works well) but I cannot use
> > apt to install anything.
> >
>
> Daniel
>
> I would like to help but there wasn't much info given (above) to
> go by so....
>
> VT1 root-Deb-Slink:~# dpkg -S gnotepad
> dpkg: *gnotepad* not found.
>
>
> VT1 root-Deb-Slink:~# dpkg -s apt
> Package: apt
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 1168
> Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
> Version: 0.3.2
> [ snip ]
>
> The only problem I had with this version is that of half package
> installs ( Not apt's fault, mine). It wouldn't install a package
> because dpkg had only half installed it. I found a solution to that
> bu going to '/var/lib/dpkg/status', finding the offending program and
> chainging 'Status: install ok installed' to 'Status: purge ok
> not-installed'. Apt finally satisfied, then started to work.
>
> BTW apt-0.3.2 is in potato and works great!
>
> HTH
>
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