Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
 

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: Synaptic Problems?< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
lwrver Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 1
Joined: Aug. 2006
Posted: Aug. 12 2006,18:05 QUOTE
I am new to DSL. I Successfully installed DSL to HD, and installed Synaptic OK from the menu. I then tried to download and install "Alien" via Synaptic, but it also automatically flags many files and programs for removal, even though all I selected was Alien and it's dependencies. If I allow it to proceed, it breaks the system, and will no longer boot. What causes Synaptic to decide for itself what to delete or keep. Do I have to manually flag everything I want to keep? I tried using apt-get first, and it couldn't even find the program I wanted from the repository.
Back to top
Profile PM 
brianw Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 245
Joined: Sep. 2005
Posted: Aug. 13 2006,02:06 QUOTE
dpkg/apt-get (Synaptic is a graphical front end for apt-get and apt-get is a console front end for dpkg) uses complex dependency and conflict information for this.  If things conflict then something can't be installed (or must be removed).  Synaptic assumes that you have checked the dependencies and what will be removed so when you say to proceed it assumes that you know what you are doing and you want something removed to be able to install what you are installing.  I think you can force apt-get to ignore dependencies but something will break doing that.

EDIT:  There is an aliensdeb.dsl in the system section of the downloads so you can install alien from a mydsl package.
Back to top
Profile PM 
1 replies since Aug. 12 2006,18:05 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

  		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: Synaptic Problems?

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code