[PlanetCCRMA] One Big Mess...

[Brad Kligerman]

Eli/

I didn't blow up my system and what you suggested seems to have put
things in order. Thanks.

/brad.


On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:15, Eli Cantu wrote:
> how about
> 
> remove anything you manually compiled
> 
> then
> 
> #apt-get update
> #apt-get -f dist-upgrade
> 
> the -f option:
> *****
> --fix-broken
>     Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This
> option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to
> deduce a likely soltion. Any Package that are specified must completly correct
> the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first
> time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a
> system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt
> as to require manual intervention (which usually means using dselect(8) or dpkg
> --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option
> together with -m may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item:
> APT::Get::Fix-Broken.
> *****
> 
> this should straighten everything out, and get the latest ccrma/redhat rpms for
> everything.
> 
> good luck...p.s. if this blows up your system. i'm not responsible ;-)
> 
> e
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Brad Kligerman <bkliger@club-internet.fr>:
> 
> > ...that I've made.
> >
> > I installed the Planet kernal,alsa etc and got everything working. Then
> > I installed pd, gem etc... Wanting the latest version of pd, I tried to
> > install it over the one that is installed via Planet + apt-get... It
> > didn't work right. I uninstalled pd, gem etc... via synaptic,
> > reinstalled a newer pd via ./configure, make... and then tried to
> > install gem via Planet apt-get again. It installed, but I couldn't get
> > it to work. So I reinstalled pd via Planet + apt-get. etc etc
> >
> > Somehow, I now have pd installed in 3 places: /usr/local/lib/pd/,
> > /usr/lib/pd/ and /bin/lib/pd/.
> >
> > I just tried to install another library (PDP + PiDiPi). It was put in
> > one of the 3 locations, but I realize that I'm on the road to hell if I
> > continue like this.
> >
> > How can I clean up this mess? Should I just get rid of everything and
> > start over? Can't I just unite everything into one directory? Which one?
> > And how do I change the paths so that new installations see the good
> > directory? Can anyone help me on this one?
> >
> > /brad.
> >
> > BTW, when I did have the 2 versions (0.36 & 0.37) of pd running with
> > gem, I found the one tweaked with Planet much faster. A good sign
> > despite my heavy handed tinkering.
> >
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