Does anyone know if there's an easy way to find a list of packages installed, sorted by date, when using aptitude (or apt-get)? I was installing a bunch of packages to try something new, and it didn't work out. I'd like to remove all of these packages, to get back some disk space. I've tried just looking at the list of .deb files down...
apt-get install devscripts What is the equivalent in centOS? ...
I did updatedb. I did locate my.cnf But I cannot find it? Nothing. (I installed MYSQL using aptitude install mysql-server, and mysql does work right now.) ...
Is there a way of getting dpkg, apt-get or aptitude to produce a list of the packages which need to be installed on a second machine to duplicate the packages installed on a first? i.e. If I've installed a plain Ubuntu server, chose the sshd option at install time, then installed build-essential I would expect the output to look somethi...
Hi. I've been struggling for quite a time now. Each time I build and install an app, after running aptitude, it wants to upgrade it even if it is on the same version. I tried to build with apt-src and apt-build too, but no luck. Here is my configuration : /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=apt-build Pin-Priority: 510 Ev...
Hi all, I'm a relatively new programmer (18 months on the scene), and I'm finally getting to the point where I'm comfortable accepting projects and developing solutions under minimal supervision. Unfortunately, this also means that I've become acutely aware of my performance shortfalls, the most prevalent of which is the amount of tim...
sudo apt-get install build-essential What else? ...
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...
How to do "sudo apt-get install " on OSX? ...
Hi there. I've a problem that seems quite simple, but I can't get it done. I have a package with many dependencies and I want to remove ALL of them, regardless wheather other packages also depend on them ( they get removed too ). How can I get a list of all dependencies of a package that I can easily send to xargs aptitude purge ? Thank ...
Hello. I recently setup an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS server for a client which uses a PHP based forum. It's all gone well, but now it seems I need to install a new php module to enable spell checking in the forum (the forum is Simple Machines Forum) So when I first setup the server, I installed like this: sudo aptitude -y install php5-c...
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...