On Sunday 27 February 2011 23:08:17 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:27:49, Lisi wrote: > > I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been > > looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which > > mentions and gives hyperlinks to toher apt applications (apt-cache etc.) > > does nto mention it. > > > > Googling brings up the information that Potato users used to use it to > > configure their /etc/apt/sources.list, and the installer still uses it > > for the same purpose. But I could find no trace of any recent usage by > > users wanting to (re)configure their sources.list. Comments gratefully > > received! > > A quick Google search revealed a post of *mine* from 2007 stating it is > in the base-config package. > > AFAIR base-config was the second stage of the installer for sarge (you > had to run that at the console after the first reboot, to set-up the > timezone, apt, etc.) . Etch already had a one-stage install; base-config > was merged with the first stage.
Yes, the most recent mention that I have been able to find was in a book about Sarge - that was where I got the information about it being part of the installer -but even that was out of date! > What are you trying to achieve? I am doing a course - and if I have a problem with anything I look it up. apt-setup was in a list with apt-cache, apt-get and apt-cdrom. As I said, I had never heard of it, so I looked it up. The rest you know. I'm afraid that I didn't turn up your post. :-( > If you need some interface to change > sources.list try synaptic ;) Ouch!! ;-) Give me Kwrite or another good editor and sources.list itself! Thanks, Andrei, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102272334.45997.lisi.re...@gmail.com