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Re: How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?



Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I have installed vuze on my Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) system.
> 
> My sources.list is:
> 
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

That looks like Sid, not Wheezy.  Unless you take special care by
pinning your system is a Sid system.

> I have installed vuze but I can't to use it. I reported a bug here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23700090
> 
> I want to follow advice of Michael Gilbert:
> 
> "You have a mix of deb-multimedia packages, which often leads to
> problems.  Please try to reproduce this on a clean installation."
> 
> So I change my sources.list:
> 
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main
> #deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main
> 
> and did aptitude update and upgrade.

You cannot change your sources and then call it a clean installation.
(At least not if you are asking how to do it.)  The way to do a clean
installation is to do a clean installation.

A clean installation in a chroot with debootstrap should be
acceptable.  That is my typical way of doing things.

The problem is that packages outside of the official Debian repository
will have a later version numbers.  The apt upgrade tools will
determine that the system is up to date based upon those version
numbers.

> Mike sed: "You should remove all packages that you've installed from
> either." 

You can purge and re-install packages.  But that may not be the same
as a clean installation.  It is much easier to simply create a clean
chroot and install there.

> So how can I know now which debian packages are installed from these
> deb-multimedia repositories abowe?

You can use apt-show-versions.

  # apt-get install apt-show-versions

Then use it to display what is installed from where.

  $ apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate

Looking at the output will show what is what.  In particular you will
probably have many lines marked "newer than version in archive" and
other such interesting things.  But reverting the system by
downgrading many packages can be tedious.

Bob

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