vim won't install from selections
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Trying to install vim from selections fail on Precise:
From a fresh install our scripts perform
echo vim install | dpkg --set-selections
and then
apt-get dselect-upgrade
which produces
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
vim-runtime
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6,277 kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Selecting previously unselected package vim-runtime.
(Reading database ... 56537 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vim-runtime (from .../vim-
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up vim-runtime (2:7.3.
Processing /usr/share/
and I get no vim.
If then do
echo vim-nox install | dpkg --set-selections
and
apt-get dselect-upgrade
I get the humorous result
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
liblua5.1-0 libperl5.14 libreadline5 libruby1.8 tcl8.5 vim vim-nox
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,320 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Get:4 http://
Get:5 http://
Get:6 http://
Get:7 http://
Fetched 5,320 kB in 0s (6,080 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package liblua5.1-0.
(Reading database ... 58101 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liblua5.1-0 (from .../liblua5.
Selecting previously unselected package libreadline5.
Unpacking libreadline5 (from .../libreadline
Selecting previously unselected package libperl5.14.
Unpacking libperl5.14 (from .../libperl5.
Selecting previously unselected package libruby1.8.
Unpacking libruby1.8 (from .../libruby1.
Selecting previously unselected package tcl8.5.
Unpacking tcl8.5 (from .../tcl8.
Unpacking vim (from .../vim_
Unpacking vim-nox (from .../vim-
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up liblua5.1-0 (5.1.4-12ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libreadline5 (5.2-11) ...
Setting up libperl5.14 (5.14.2-6ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libruby1.8 (1.8.7.
Setting up tcl8.5 (8.5.11-1ubuntu1) ...
update-
Setting up vim (2:7.3.
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
Setting up vim-nox (2:7.3.
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Notice how vim now gets installed.
Asking for purge of vim-nox
echo vim-nox purge | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
vim-nox*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,133 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 59069 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vim-nox ...
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
goes well
and so does it for vim
echo vim purge | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
vim*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,061 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 59063 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vim ...
update-
update-
update-
update-
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
affects: | vim (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu) |