hi, how can i get a list of upgrade packages available and write it to file using python? when i run "apt-get upgrade > output" it works in bash, I think i have to send the trap signal (ctrl-C) in python program any suggestions? on how to achieve this... -krisdigitx i tried this on the code now, #!/usr/bin/env python import su...
hi, whenever you install a package in ubuntu, it is added to manual install and the system will make sure it is updated and configured correctly. but i cannot find a way to remove the packages from the manual install list. i want to do this so i let the package system to take care of that package and remove it when it is unnecessary to...
Hello, I've just migrated to Zsh from Bash, but I have a bit of a problem in it. In bash on an Ubuntu system, when I type the name of a command which does not exist, Bash searches the apt database for a matching command name and prints out the package names that provide that command. It's a really useful feature, so I was wondering if so...
My usual command for keeping the machine up to date is rather verbose, and it can result in more than one password prompt if any command takes a long time: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean I'd like to shorten this down to one command (preferably without using a globa...
Macports is the only packaging system I have checked out on the Mac and I dont like it.(it needs all its applications installed in a particular location. Thats probably the reason why it showed Python2.5 as a dependency which needs to be installed even though I already had it.) For a person who has moved over from Ubuntu, I sorely miss a...
Trying to learn how to work with packages in Ubuntu (and have Gentoo experience). This command is already known: (1) sudo apt-get install pkgname Looking for counterparts of these: (2) emerge -s pkgname (3) equery files pkgname (4) equery belongs filename (5) cat /var/lib/portage world Which useful (console) package commands do yo...
The page http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ only says 1.9.1 for Linux. Right now I am using RVM to do an rvm install 1.9.2 and it needs compilation. There is no apt-get install way to install it? Is there a way to list all Ruby version apt-get can install? ...
I have (or soon will have) a puppet script that installs a number of packages via apt-get. I need them to be accessible from inside a chroot. Is there an easy way to set that up? My first thought is to run apt-get from inside the chroot but that seems both messy and to be a potential problem as how can I be sure I've completely removed ...
I can't find the emacs package to install on debian. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like: I am using apt-cache search [emacs*+] . I get a list of packages which depend on emacs, but not emacs itself. Any thoughts? I installed the Debian base system only. ...
I try to install jdk and jre by using 'apt-get' command, but something wrong occured: ...... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-bin: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6.2...
How to download openssh package using apt-get? The problem is that the package is already installed so I get only: sudo apt-get install openssh -d Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done openssh is already the newest version. Because of being already installed, I don't get the debian package. I should remove it...
What is the difference between apt-get vs aptitude. Which one is better? pros/cons? ...
I know there are other applications also, but considering yum/apt-get/aptitude/pacman are you core package managers for linux distributions. Today I saw on my fedora 13 box: (7/7): yum-3.2.28-4.fc13_3.2.28-5.fc13.noarch.drpm | 42 kB 00:00 And I started to wonder how does such a package update itself? What design is...
I have booted my system from a live Ubuntu CD, and I need to fix some package problems. I have mounted my hard drive, and now I want to run apt-get as if I booted normally. ie change the working directory for apt-get so it will work on my hard drive. I have done this before, but I can't remember the syntax. I think it was only some flag,...
Hi , when trying to install application using apt-get, I always get /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found for example: $sudo apt-get install libssl-dev [sudo] password for camino: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done .... Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING:...