On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > this may only affect the woody dpkg but setting COLLUMS (that looks > spelled wrong) will adjust this.
Very nice! I had no idea. Thanks. Oh, it's COLUMNS. :) > i think apt has a --force-downgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]$ apt-get --force-downgrade install rep E: Command line option --force-downgrade is not understood [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]$ apt-get -v apt 0.5.3 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 7 2001 19:25:55 ...maybe on a newer version? > ximian packages are not binary compatible with debian's so that is not > a good idea. better option is to install the missing packages from > debian unstable. use of apt's pinning feature can aid this. Okie dokie. Thanks for the advice. I'll get on it (I'm still keeping my theme packages, though). :) -- David Steinberg -o) Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v