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John-Paul Stewart snip
To the OP; I just did a Debian 3.1r1 install, and I am missing 'some' things still, but I have installed some using 'apbreastude' and some using login as root)
$ apt-get install coreutils E: Could not open lock filevar-lib-dpkg-lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (-var-lib-dpkg-), are you root? (note; I am logged in as a User who hasn't yet obtained root permissions)
02-25-2006 There is none. There are a number of good distributions, tailored to different niches, an we'd need to know a good deal about what you're doing to guess which is best for you, buttuming...
$ sudo apt-get install coreutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done coreutils is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. (note; Here I used 'sudo' to obtain superuser and installation permissions)
Hi, All I have a very strange behaviour in just one computer, other different ones were tested and everything works just as it should. On this one sometimes it works, sometimes not...
$ sudo apt-get install less Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done less is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. (note; I did not need 'less' - already newest version is installed)
$ sudo apt-get install most Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: most 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 42.2kB of archives. After unpacking 147kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp:--ftp.de.debian.org stable-main most 4.9.5-1 42.2kB Fetched 42.2kB in 2s (17.7kB-s) Selecting previously deselected package most. (Reading database ... 71639 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking most (from ...-archives-most4.9.5-1i386.deb) ... Setting up most (4.9.5-1) ... (note; I did need 'most' and installed it)
$ sudo apt-get install bash Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done bash is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. (note; I did not need 'bash' - already newest version is installed)
$ sudo apt-get install fileutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: fileutils 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9042B of archives. After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp:--ftp.de.debian.org stable-main fileutils 5.2.1-2 9042B Fetched 9042B in 1s (4681B-s) Selecting previously deselected package fileutils. (Reading database ... 71649 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fileutils (from ...-fileutils5.2.1-2all.deb) ... Setting up fileutils (5.2.1-2) ... (note; I did need 'fileutils' - and installed it)
Douglas Mayne Well, other than failing the badblocks test, I have had no failures from the Diamond Max 9s. I certainly...
$ sudo apt-get build-dep fileutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: autoconf automake1.8 autotools-dev dh-buildinfo help2man libacl1-dev libattr1-dev 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1040kB of archives. After unpacking 3785kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? Y-n n Abort. (note; Here, I test for Build-Dependencies for fileutils, and aborted)
You can also use the -s for simulation mode 'apt-get -s install Nothing actually occurs in simulation mode (a 'dry-run' so to speak). hth
To anyone willing to reply;
iforone I have to object to the term "modulename" as used above. "Module" often has connotations of a kernel...
Q. What do we need the 'build-dep' files for? -- to build modules? Q. Do we need 'build-dep' files to use the modules-tools? Q. What do we need 'source' files for? Q. How and why would I want to do this? (just an overview will suffice ;-)) Thank you in Advance
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