* apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question
@ Nick Gawronski
` Sean M McMahon
` William Hubbs
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From: Nick Gawronski @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi, I am currently running debian etch and am reading the posts on
gentoo dropping speakup. Gentoo really sounds like a good version as
it is almost compiled entirely from source. Is there any way like in
debian to install gentoo and use a speakup modified 2.6.21.6 kernel
with a dectalk express as that is what I have? The issue I am having
with debian etch is that when I run apt-get install build-essential to
install the programs like gcc and other building programs a lot of
package names come up as rec amended and suggested packages. What I
want apt-get to do is install all of these packages with out telling me
about them. Of course I want to install the documentation or if I do
apt-get libc6-dev it tells me libc6-dev depends on libc6 but it is not
going to be installed. Really I don't think that is good package
management and should be looked into. What can I put in a file in the
apt.conf.d directory to tell apt to still prompt me but select the
suggested and rec amended packages when I want to install a package and
install dependencies for me?
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* Re: apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question
apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question Nick Gawronski
@ ` Sean M McMahon
` William Hubbs
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sean M McMahon @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Unless they've severely changed things in debian 4, apt-get install, or
now the recommended way, aptitude install will install a package +
dependencies. Of course if you already have these dependencies, apt won't
install them. A command like aptitude install --with-recommends
--with-suggests should install a package, its dependencies, recommended
packages and suggested packages. Honestly however, when I attempted to
upgrade by using --with-recommends, apt told me which packages were
recommended but didn't install them. You don't necessarily need every
recommended or suggested package. Look at the package description to see
if you want it. If you want to have a package but built it from source,
You should have a look at apt-build. There was an interesting article in
the debian news which contained this topic.
speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca wrote on 08/01/2007 03:52:46 PM:
> Hi, I am currently running debian etch and am reading the posts on
> gentoo dropping speakup. Gentoo really sounds like a good version as
> it is almost compiled entirely from source. Is there any way like in
> debian to install gentoo and use a speakup modified 2.6.21.6 kernel
> with a dectalk express as that is what I have? The issue I am having
> with debian etch is that when I run apt-get install build-essential to
> install the programs like gcc and other building programs a lot of
> package names come up as rec amended and suggested packages. What I
> want apt-get to do is install all of these packages with out telling me
> about them. Of course I want to install the documentation or if I do
> apt-get libc6-dev it tells me libc6-dev depends on libc6 but it is not
> going to be installed. Really I don't think that is good package
> management and should be looked into. What can I put in a file in the
> apt.conf.d directory to tell apt to still prompt me but select the
> suggested and rec amended packages when I want to install a package and
> install dependencies for me?
>
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> My web page is http://www.nickgawronski.com
>
> Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit
> www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere.
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* Re: apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question
apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question Nick Gawronski
` Sean M McMahon
@ ` William Hubbs
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: William Hubbs @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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Hi Nick,
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:52:46PM -0400, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I am currently running debian etch and am reading the posts on
> gentoo dropping speakup. Gentoo really sounds like a good version as
> it is almost compiled entirely from source. Is there any way like in
> debian to install gentoo and use a speakup modified 2.6.21.6 kernel
> with a dectalk express as that is what I have?
Yes, there is a way to install gentoo from within Debian, or any linux
distribution actually. Take a look at the following document.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5
You can also run any kernel you like with gentoo.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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* Re: apt-get issues in debian etch and gentoo question
@ Nick Gawronski
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Gawronski @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi, Is there any installation iso image for gentoo that comtains
speakup that works with a dectalk express or will I need to use debian
to install gentoo? Are there any plans to fix speakup so it works with
kernel 2.6.22?
Original message:
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> Hi Nick,
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:52:46PM -0400, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>> Hi, I am currently running debian etch and am reading the posts on
>> gentoo dropping speakup. Gentoo really sounds like a good version as
>> it is almost compiled entirely from source. Is there any way like in
>> debian to install gentoo and use a speakup modified 2.6.21.6 kernel
>> with a dectalk express as that is what I have?
> Yes, there is a way to install gentoo from within Debian, or any linux
> distribution actually. Take a look at the following document.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5
> You can also run any kernel you like with gentoo.
> Let me know if you have any questions.
> Thanks,
> - --
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh@gentoo.org
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