VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Beartooth Testbedder]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:22:15 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Beartooth Testbedder wrote:
[...]
> OK, so you're using the really, really, old release (which also explains why
> you have nothing in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/).  So maybe alpine doesn't
> even exist there.  

What I installed was 6.06 LTS *alternate* (because CentOS was hogging the
whole hard drive, and I didn't want to blow it away, but end up with a
triple boot. I couldn't make regular 6.06 do that -- much to my surprise.

But when alpine wouldn't take, I went looking for more repos; I think I
ended up adding all in the US -- and it still didn't take.

> Your choices: install a more recent Ubuntu; download a copy of alpine from
> packages.ubuntu.com; install with dpkg, and then do "aptitude -f install"
> to fix the dependencies; 

Went there, looked under Edgy, then under Mail; no Alpine, nor even Pine.

> or reinstall the alpine .deb you tried before, 

I've just tried that again. I get : 

btth at SblzUb:~$ dpkg -i alpine_1.00_i386.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
btth at SblzUb:~$ sudo dpkg -i alpine_1.00_i386.deb
Password:
Selecting previously deselected package alpine.
(Reading database ... 87209 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking alpine (from alpine_1.00_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alpine:
 alpine depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5.
 alpine depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1); however:
  Version of libssl0.9.8 on system is 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.5.
dpkg: error processing alpine (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alpine
btth at SblzUb:~$

(I'm pretty sure that's the error message I omitted before.)

> and run  "aptitude -f install".  

Oops! I get :

btth at SblzUb:~$ aptitude -f install
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing tagcoll (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

So, just in case :

btth at SblzUb:~$ sudo aptitude -f install
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing tagcoll (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing tagcoll (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
btth at SblzUb:~$

... and qtparted assures me Ubuntu is using only 4.24 GB of the 11.58 GB
in its partition! Wrong error message somehow??

> My preferences would be in that order -
> the first is initially time consuming, but guaranteed to work, either of
> other options might not work anyway (if it can't resolve the
> dependencies from the dapper release).

My guess is there must be some way to get into that repo list, dump the
extraneous ones I shouldn't've added, and enable the universal. 

Btw, here is a result from either an earlier post, or more likely a draft
for one that I'm still working on; it seems to say that the universal, but
*not* the source code part (if src means that) *is* enabled. Doesn't dpkg
default to most recent??

btth at SblzUb:~$ grep -r universe /etc/apt/sources.list*
/etc/apt/sources.list:## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
/etc/apt/sources.list:## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
/etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
/etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
btth at SblzUb:~$ 

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Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : F8, C5.1, U6.06;
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.