[PlanetCCRMA] One Big Mess...

[Eli Cantu]

good to hear it's fixed.

one of the things about apt that one will notice very quickly:

it's repository-centric

if i setup a machine to use the ccrma repository, i'm essentially ccrma-izing my
redhat system.

i could use the freshrpms repository and set my redhat system to the freshrpms
"flavor".

the other thing one will notice about apt:  it hates unresolved dependencies.

it will not let you procede with installs till you fix your dependencies. which
is done with the -f option.

the -f option is very powerful, with the "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" command, i've
completely un-ccrma-ized a machine and converted the system to another
repository.  that meant tons of packages got removed, and new ones replaced
them.

crazy. huh?

e









Quoting Brad Kligerman <bkliger@club-internet.fr>:

> 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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