Comments on: Things You Need To Know To Become An Apt Guru

By: Getting Started with Pardus Linux - Make Tech Easier

Getting Started with Pardus Linux - Make Tech Easier — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:18:42 +0000

[...] and impressed by the clean, clear, clever design. To me, the real gem was PiSi. As a long time APT fan I have high expectations in a package manager, and so far PiSi hasn’t let me down, its [...]

By: Kadimi

Kadimi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:27:34 +0000

Who said dist-upgarde was deprecated, it’s may be in future version…

me@computer:~$ man aptitude
[...]
full-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most recent
version, removing or installing packages as necessary.
This command is less conservative than safe-upgrade and
thus more likely to perform unwanted actions. However,
it is capable of upgrading packages that safe-upgrade
cannot upgrade.

Note
This command was originally named dist-upgrade for
historical reasons, and aptitude still recognizes
dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade.
[...]

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:10:44 +0000

Fantastic tip for server administration. +1 Internets to you sir.

By: JoshuaRL

JoshuaRL — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:13:57 +0000

@Jason

Just for my own wonderment, what’s so good about wajig? I installed it and played with it a bit, but so far this was the coolest part:

“wajig remove wajig”

Heehee. And it worked too!

By: Articles Collection of Feb’09 « Dako-Tux

Articles Collection of Feb’09 « Dako-Tux — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:12:19 +0000

[...] Things You Need To Know To Become An Apt Guru [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:43:28 +0000

See the following Google tech talk:
“Anatomy of a Debian package”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6726522426109060914

for more information about the .deb format. The .deb file itself is an ‘ar’ archive.

By: Get comfy with apt « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix

Get comfy with apt « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:42:10 +0000

[...] comfy with apt Filed under: Linux — 0ddn1x @ 2009-03-03 20:42:03 +0000 http://maketecheasier.com/become-an-apt-guru/2009/02/24 TrackBack [...]

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:34:47 +0000

Great tip, Jonathan, thanks!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:30:26 +0000

When you dpkg -i package.deb and it tells you that there are missing dependencies there is a very simple fix for this problem as well.

enter apt-get install -f

This will install the dependencies you were missing (assuming they are available in the repos) and then automatically continue with your failed dpkg install.

By: steaven

steaven — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:54:37 +0000

this is why i love ubuntu, for apt.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:27:18 +0000

Forget aptitude. Use wajig. It’s a python-based CLI front-end to all of the packaging tools. It’s great.

By: links for 2009-03-02 « Mandarine

links for 2009-03-02 « Mandarine — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:17:48 +0000

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By: Domina el apt-get, dpkg y aptitude :: ISSUX.com

Domina el apt-get, dpkg y aptitude :: ISSUX.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:31:34 +0000

[...] MakeTechEasier podemos encontrar una miniguia para conocer los parametros mas comunes de los comando apt-get, [...]

By: Getting to Know Apt | Support Wars

Getting to Know Apt | Support Wars — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:43:52 +0000

[...] a great article on Apt while browsing Digg. With APT, Linux gained the ability to install and manage software packages in [...]

By: LinuxClassicist

LinuxClassicist — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:07:43 +0000

The formatter of this reply area munged my reply.

The commands are: to create the text file: dpkg dash-dash-get-selections greater-than filename

to reinstall, using the list in the text file: as root, dpkg dash-dash-set-selections less-than filename semi-colon dselect

Hope this helps.

By: LinuxClassicist

LinuxClassicist — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:04:07 +0000

to create the text file: dpkg –get-selections >

to reinstall, using the list: as root, dpkg –set-selections < ; dselect

By: ernesto

ernesto — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:38:18 +0000

how do these tools know if a package is “no longer used”? i.e. in a dist-upgrade, which packages get deleted?

and: what is dselect good for?

btw: recently i have updated debian etch to lenny, and i had answer about 100 times the question “config file has local modifications”. very annoying.

By: Conviértete en un maestro del apt-get | MuyLinux

Conviértete en un maestro del apt-get | MuyLinux — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:36:19 +0000

[...] MakeTechEasier han realizado un recorrido por las principales opciones del sistema de gestión de paquetes apt-get, [...]

By: Bish

Bish — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:10:20 +0000

The first statement of this article is terribly wrong: the apt package tool is *not* unique to debian-derived distros. To those afraid to try RPM-based distros, don’t worry: apt is there if you want it.

I’ve never been on a debian-based system, just bad luck, and I’ve been happily using APT for probably a decade. In my case, ‘apt-get build-dep’ is the most helpful thing I could ever have learned.

By: Hadret

Hadret — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:08:04 +0000

If you’re upgrading system using Aptitude, you’d rather use those two commands:

# aptitude safe-upgrade

# aptitude full-upgrade

Dist-upgrade in Aptitude is deprecated.