apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
When I try to install Maemo's man-db, which I thought might
let me view man-pages, on my N900, apt-get says it's going to remove 283 MB of what looks like around 300 programs, including adobe-flashplayer, busybox, calendar, clock-ui, dbus, maemo-launcher, microb-engine, mplayer, opera-mobile, rootsh, upstart, and udev. What's going on? "apt-get -f install" checks OK. My sources.list looks OK. Should I go ahead and try? No! (Incidentally, please name some man-page viewers). TFJ |
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
Yeah go ahead if you like to break your device completely.
Post a bit more info. I have man-db without problems on my device. You know about repo mirrors and use them? |
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
I believe I'm using the basic maemo repos. apt-get just says this is what it's going to do. It also lists a bunch of 'osso', 'hildon' and the like programs for deletion.
man-db's apparently in the SDK repo. apt-get wants to remove 380 files. I sometimes prefer apt-get to the manager apps. The N900 has seemed vaguely buggy (slow, occasionally freezing) lately. |
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
Basic maemo repos are okay.
But Nokia repos are gone (search here for maemo-repos.com or maemo.muarf.org). Nevertheless I should read questions here really more thoroughly before answering. Do NOT install man-db from SDK but install package man-db-n900. |
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
Not sure about the details and I have little time to search my own posting history but I've had the exact same problem with man-db on my N900. At some point, it must have been close to midnight, I decided to remove it, and without looking closely I had apt delete everything it found on it's way.
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Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
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Correct, the man-db-n900 package, in the extras-devel repo, installed fine (but with lots of "dangling symlink" warnings, dang it) and seems to work great. What happened is, when I searched (with apt-cache) for "man page" or such, I had left the SDK repo open in my sources.list file, and grabbed at "man-db" (apparently I missed seeing "man-db-n900"). So this may be a good example of why you should stick to the Extras repo, and be real cautious with the others; this problem was pretty obvious, but others might not be. |
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
Perhaps you could put the 'Solved' tag to the title thread as well?
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Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900
And please, for forms sake, let us note that apt-get IS NOT A RECOMMENDED way to install things on the n900.
It can bite you HARD, unless you know wots wot and are attentive. |
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I do install almost everhthing via console ... Quote:
But having HAM deciding in the background is not an option either ( for me). |
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I believe my advice is that recommended for most users of the n900. |
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