In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found >>that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis.
I have installed them on three computers with different configurations and had no problems so far. Of course I removed most Debian Gnome packages before installing Ximian. I even might try downloading the 1.4 test release next sunday. > Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work > using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment. You can download the packages with wget and add a line pointing to their location on your harddisk to sources.list (that's what I did). Felix