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Re: [trinity-devel] Package renames and autoremove

From: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@...>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:31:43 +0900
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On 2014/12/11 06:58 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Thu December 11 2014 01:47:03 Michele Calgaro wrote:
>> I haven't (yet) tried an upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to r14.0.0 myself
>> (I will have to test on a VM sometime next week), but when you
>> are going for the dummy package removal, I suggest you try this:
>> run aptitude in interactive mode, select the dummy packages to
>> remove, press 'g'. You will have a screen with a summary of what
>> packages are going to be removed, which most likely will include
>> most of TDE packages (based on your mail) as "autodependency
>> (A)". Mark tdebase, tdelibs and all other "general" tde packages
>> as "keep". This should possibly keep most of TDE installed, while
>> allowing you to remove those dummy packages.
> 
> Hi Michele,
> 
> I've been trying to figure out a simple way to protect 
> inexperienced users.
> 
> The safest approach I've found thus far is:
> 
> apt-get update apt-get install tde-trinity apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> This is for Debian.  Ubuntu may need a different second step just
> as initial installs are different for Ubuntu.
> 
> I also tried this with aptitude but aptitude goes crazy.
> 
> --Mike
> 

If seems the download from the server/mirrors is more reliable now. I
gave up testing for a few days, but now it seems that the download is
(although slowly) progressing without timeout, 509 bandwidth
limitiation or error of sort. It is stalls occasionaly, but a stop-go
will resume it.
Cheers
  Michele

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