{"id":262,"date":"2007-05-09T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-06-30T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T23:37:28","slug":"apt-get-install-sucks-so-much-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/apt-get-install-sucks-so-much-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"apt-get install sucks so much sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was given an old debian machine to do some stuff. I had some networking problems so I thought I could install tcpdump to see what’s happening. Take a _good_ look at the result…<\/p>\n

# apt-get update
\nGet:1 http:\/\/security.debian.org stable\/updates\/main Packages [62.2kB]
\nGet:2 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main Packages [5638kB]
\nGet:3 http:\/\/security.debian.org stable\/updates\/main Release [97B]
\nGet:4 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main Release [95B]
\nGet:5 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main Sources [1653kB]
\nGet:6 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main Release [97B]
\nFetched 7353kB in 38s (191kB\/s)
\nReading Package Lists... Done
\n# apt-get install tcpdump
\nReading Package Lists... Done
\nBuilding Dependency Tree... Done
\nThe following extra packages will be installed:
\n libc6 libc6-dev libpcap0.8 libssl0.9.8 locales tzdata
\nSuggested packages:
\n glibc-doc
\nThe following packages will be REMOVED:
\n base-config initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:
\n libpcap0.8 libssl0.9.8 tcpdump tzdata
\nThe following packages will be upgraded:
\n libc6 libc6-dev locales
\n3 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 3 to remove and 266 not upgraded.
\nNeed to get 14.9MB of archives.
\nAfter unpacking 21.5MB disk space will be freed.
\nDo you want to continue? [Y\/n] n
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

# uname -a
\nLinux XXXXXX 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU\/Linux
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Does it want to remove the kernel I am using??? Why ?<\/p>\n

D0h!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was given an old debian machine to do some stuff. I had some networking problems so I thought I could install tcpdump to see what’s happening. Take a _good_ look at the result… # apt-get update Get:1 http:\/\/security.debian.org stable\/updates\/main Packages [62.2kB] Get:2 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main Packages [5638kB] Get:3 http:\/\/security.debian.org stable\/updates\/main Release [97B] Get:4 ftp:\/\/ftp.ntua.gr stable\/main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t