dselect error

[toshiro]

Hi!

I've just upgraded to Kubuntu 12.10 (from 12.04)... I'm a big fan of dselect since it was added in Debian (that was SEVERAL years ago ) and use it quite a lot. The problem is, since I've upgraded to 12.10, deselect exits with an error every time I try to Select packages:

dselect: error: foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not supported

Anybody know how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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Toshiro
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[claydoh]

Dselect does not support the fancy modern multiarch setup available today in Debian and now fully implemented in *buntu. One can disable this, but it would make running 32-bit only programs such as wine or Skype extremely difficult, if at all.

[toshiro]

Dselect does not support the fancy modern multiarch setup available today in Debian and now fully implemented in *buntu. One can disable this, but it would make running 32-bit only programs such as wine or Skype extremely difficult, if at all.

Well, that's bad news for me Anybody know about any nice alternatives? (please don't mention aptitude, I've never liked it , I also prefer console applications, ubuntu GUI for managing packages are not for me either).

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[claydoh]

You still have ssd dpkg and apt, of course. Are you meaning a command line gui package manager?

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[toshiro]

You still have ssd dpkg and apt, of course. Are you meaning a command line gui package manager?

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Yes, but searching for packages are much better using dselect than apt-get commands; I'd like to know if there's a similar application (besides aptitude) that works in kubuntu

Regards,


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[claydoh]

I am not aware of any other package management tools for Debian based systems, outside of the non-terminal front end GUIs.

A nice thing about Muon is that it doesn't lock apt until you actually install or remove something, meaning you can use it to search and browse while still using the terminal to install or remove.

[toshiro]

I am not aware of any other package management tools for Debian based systems, outside of the non-terminal front end GUIs.

A nice thing about Muon is that it doesn't lock apt until you actually install or remove something, meaning you can use it to search and browse while still using the terminal to install or remove.

Yes, I also looked for another console package manager but couldn't find anything. I think it must be time for me to get used to aptitude

Thanks for the help!.


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[SteveRiley]

I'm rather a fan of Aptitude, especially now that it supports multiple architectures. What exactly don't you like about it?

[toshiro]

I'm rather a fan of Aptitude, especially now that it supports multiple architectures. What exactly don't you like about it?

Well, I had many issues with aptitude in the past (several years ago), specially when using it with Debian sid (it messed everything up a couple of times, maybe the culprit was sid itself and not aptitude, but I never had this problem with dselect so I decided to stick with it and drop aptitude; I never had to look back until now, so maybe aptitude works better now.

I also prefer the way dselect does searches, if, for example, I append '/di' in a search string in dselect, it looks for the string in both package name AND description without considering the case; I didn't found a way to do the same in aptitude in an easy way.

I also don't like the way aptitude list the packages (dselect aggregation is much more useful for me), don't like the curses menues either, etc.

I know that probably aptitude and/or apt-get/apt-cache will do the job, the problem is that I'm used to (and prefer) dselect


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[SteveRiley]

Aptitude search is now case-insensitive; but the search still looks only at package names, not descriptions.

Earlier versions of Aptitude didn't maintain sync with APT and also followed a different dependency resolution algorithm. However, the sync issues have been fixed, and from what I can tell now, it resolves dependencies the same way APT does. I haven't experienced any breakage with Aptitude in some time now. That said, the Kubuntu team does not test with Aptitude, so the proverbial YMMV applies here.

[weha]

Well, that's bad news for me Anybody know about any nice alternatives? (please don't mention aptitude, I've never liked it , I also prefer console applications, ubuntu GUI for managing packages are not for me either).

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Toshiro
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Wajig is very nice and fun to use. In the repos.

wajig

http://www.togaware.com/linux/surviv..._Packages.html