[Haskell-cafe] Re: Trouble trying to find packages for ubuntu linux

[Thomas Hartman]

I did actually get into some (not serious) trouble running this
"install them all and let god sort them out" approach. There were
complaints about some haskell gtk packages which hung during the
apt-get command, which I had to end with ctrl-c. Thereafter, these
packages would cause error messages whenever I used apt (even for non
haskell purposes).

I considered this not too too serious since apt continued to install
the stuff I needed, but the errors were annoying.

I was able to back my package repository into a non-error-printing
state by following the instructions in the "If It Hangs" section
(which I just wrote) at

  http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Repairing_apt-get_database

Basically use
  apt-get --autoclean
  apt-get autoremove

and then apt-get --purge remove package

 for every package causing problems

The errors then stopped. The above script did leave with a lot of
haskell stuff installed from packages, which is convenient, but I will
refine it so it completes without errors, time allowing.




2007/4/5, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> > and in more detail in
> > my other post linked above.
>
> I meant, linked below.
>
> 2007/4/5, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> > In the spirit of...
> >
> >   I hate package chasing, cabal doesn't do this automatically (yet),
> > and hard disk space is cheap...
> >
> >   Here is a script to just hit the deb/ubuntu repos and install as
> > much haskell-loooking stuff as possible.
> >
> >   If you're going to do this, I would recommend pulling at least from
> > the feisty repo, as described in pupeno's blog, and in more detail in
> > my other post linked above.
> >
> >   Basically, this installs all ghc6* packages, with ad-hoc blocking of
> > packages that cause aptitude to complain.
> >
> >   The basic approach seems sound though. If it gets stuck at some
> > point, I'll just add the offending package to the filter list.  (I
> > suspect there's a more intelligent way to do this if you know debian
> > package management better than I do.)
> >
> >  The script below has been cranking away for a pretty long time now --
> > so not only may your mileage vary, mine isnt' even yet.
> >
> >   I also wouldn't recommend doing this on a production server.
> > (When/if I hose my system, I can reload a virgin ubuntu in under five
> > minutes using my linode control panel.)
> >
> > *********
> >
> > apt-cache search libghc6 | ghc -e 'interact $ unlines . map (\l ->
> > head $ words l ) . lines' \
> >   | grep -ivE \(ghc6-hopengl\|libghc6-c2hs-dev\) \
> >   | xargs apt-get -y install
> >
> >
> > 2007/3/16, Chad Scherrer <chad.scherrer at gmail.com>:
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > > I had this exact problem, and I found this approach to work wonderfully:
> > >
> > > http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/
> > >
> > >
> > > Chad
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