Re: synaptic problem?
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > >Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I
>
> use
>
> > > synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to
> >
> > generate
> >
> > > a package install script. So, I created a custom filter to show
>
> just
>
> > > installed packages and selected that filter. (cool) Then I
>
> selected
>
> > all the
> >
> > > packages for "reinstallation" (the only option). Then I selected
> >
> > "generate
> >
> > > package install script" from the File menu. The script that was
> >
> > generated
> >
> > > starts with
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > wget
> > > wget
> > > wget
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > with one "wget" line for each package that I selected, but there is
> >
> > nothing in
> >
> > > the script file after the "wget". Am I doing something wrong, or is
> >
> > there a
> >
> > > bug?
> >
> > At least you got wget's, I only got #! /bin/sh
> >
> > synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
> >
> >
> > Hugo
>
> Same. Just #!/bin/sh. I have the same version as well 0.62.1. That's
> odd.
>
> Anyway, looking at the file menu for synaptic, it has a "Add downloaded
> packages" and the hover text says "Add packages downloaded with the
> 'Generate package download script' feature to the system".
>
> I have never used this before, so this may be a wild guess, but is it
> possible that you run the script to wget the packages and then run the
> "Add downloaded packages" to install them? Have you tried that?
>
> Have fun!
> Chris Stackpole
I used to get the one line script and my version of synaptic is older 0.57.8.
After googling I found out that I need to select packages first. then I got
one line per selected package. But, only wget on each line.
Mark
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