Apt-get / dpkg tutorial

[vulcanidiot]

Tom,

Haven't read your book; looks interesting.

Dave Coventry
(Nothing Yet Published!)

They also translated it into Chinese ... lol

-t-

[j.drake]

BTW, is there anyway to use apt-get to install something to the ramdisk temporarily while running off the KNOPPIX CD, maybe to tmp?

AJ, I was just poking around the new release of 3.6, and encountered KNOPPIX -> Utilities -> "Install Software (while running from CD)". One of the menu choices is apt-get. Looks like Fabian left you an easter egg.

This is news to me. I don't recall seeing anything about this before.

I've been trying to update the WIKI a little, and came across this thread. As far as I can tell, not much has been put there about apt. Does anyone know of other resources that would be good to integrate?

jd

[j.drake]

Oh, man. Just did apt-get update with poor man's. 2damcool

jd

[Radagast]

yet another dpkg/apt-get tutorial

[mimes]

I believe from other help i have gotten from this forum that you need KNoppix to be installed on the harddrive to install any packages, or at least .deb pckages.

[JPsDad]

Superstoned said:
Code: man apt-get
gives manual of apt-get. you can use this for every command!
but when I enter it:
# man apt-get
it returns the following:

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
man: command '/bin/gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz> /tmp/zmanGYqwiN'
failed with exit status 256
No manual entry for apt-get

I need more than "good luck..." I need a teenage geek
The man entries that I have seen are rather cryptic and presuppose knowledge that this newbie does not have. Is there a manual on how to understand the manual??

dad

[sakiZ]

Thanks for this tutorial.

I've been having my own apt-get issues. I recently installed Abiword, a very nice word processor. I can even create PDF files with it.

My problem is that now when ever I want to install quite a number of packages including:

KDE 3.4
Mplayer

just to name two,

I get an apt-get message saying that it will now remove the 7 Abiword packages that make up that installation in order to complete the installation of whatever it is I'm installing.

I can get around this by installing programs as Deb files. But it is getting frustrating.

I don't want to remove Abiword.

What to do? And why is this happening?

sakiZ

[JPsDad]

yet another dpkg/apt-get tutorial

This link did not work for me. And I certainly need another tutorial, because I am still trying to install the AdobeReader 7.0 RPM. I was told to use alien and see README.deb which I was not able to find. I finally typed alien [path&file name] and created a .deb pkg, but Kpackage does not install it.

I need this for my Online Tax Forms, so my time is getting tight!!

Help I need a Dummies Guide.

dad

[bab_fast]

have a problem : i want to upgrade mai os with this command : apt-get upgrade
when it finnish the download status it write this ...

Unpacking libx11-6 (from
.../libx11-6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite
`/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2',
which is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Unpacking libxext6 (from
.../libxext6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxext6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.4',
which is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Unpacking libice6 (from
.../libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3',
which is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:

/var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb

/var/cache/apt/archives/libxext6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb

[wavesailor]

yet another dpkg/apt-get tutorial

This link did not work for me. And I certainly need another tutorial, because I am still trying to install the AdobeReader 7.0 RPM.

I found that document on this link http://www.bglug.ca/articles/how_to_...l_software.pdf

-jj