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Comment on Forcing win32-loader to use i386? by Didier Raboud

Didier Raboud — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:58:16 +0000

Years after…

That’s reasonably easy to add to win32-loader; please file a bug against src:win32-loader if you still see a need for it.

Cheers, OdyX, win32-loader maintainer

Comment on Can aptitude show older versions of packages if available in /var/cache/apt/archives? by Josh Triplett

Josh Triplett — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:51:47 +0000

Not directly. However, you could make this work locally with a bit of configuration.

First, add a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local-archives-apt-source containing the following:

DPkg::Post-Invoke { “cd /var/cache/apt && /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages –multiversion archives | gzip -c > Packages.gz”; };

Second, add a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-archives.list containing the following:

deb file:/var/cache/apt ./

You’ll also need to manually run the command in the DPkg::Post-Invoke hook initially, as well as any time you clean up the apt cache; unfortunately, I don’t think any hook exists to catch the latter and handle it automatically.

Comment on Query Google Scholar using Python by fanouria

fanouria — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:38:02 +0000

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Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Anonyme

Anonyme — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:45:26 +0000

I noted that aptitude removes the M(anual) tag on some packages when there are conflicts and part of the solution is to not upgrade them.

It happened for a all bunch of libs in july/september in Sid: libsmoke* waiting for qtruby to be updated.

As it is applying (with ‘!’) the chosen solution that removes the tag, I suspect the conflict management to be (a) culprit .

Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:45:23 +0000

I’d suggest something like this instead:

?installed ?not(?automatic) ?reverse-Depends(?installed)

That’ll show you all non-automatic packages depended on by other things you have installed. You want to mark most of those as automatic.

Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Lachlan

Lachlan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:16:07 +0000

If you apt-get a package thats already installed it removes auto status.
I’m not sure if aptitude does the same.

Also I really needed that aptitude command! I’m testing out multi arch today.

Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:13:45 +0000

I think pressing “+” on “Upgradable Packages” sometimes marks auto-installed as manually installed (afaik it behaves like a “foreach p in list: {upgrade(p), resolve conflicts}”)
“Mark Upgradable” (shortcut “shift-U”) is the better one, and keeps “hold” marks intact.

Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Kint

Kint — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:49:38 +0000

I take my own command back; the aptitude way shows more meaningful packages than deborphan.

Comment on How to get a list of manually installed packages (and remove the other ones) by Kint

Kint — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:38:57 +0000

I guess deborphan doesn’t do exactly what you need?

Comment on No sound with Gnome 3 and pulseaudio? by me

me — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:27:49 +0000

Any .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf modifications blocking your fun?