Thanks for detailing your experience and for your patience. However, before moving, I decided to wait for the whole day, until a balanced view, which hopefully also takes into account the (problem ?) of /lib32.
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 09:15, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi > I hope I am not forcing my solutions to the list. I have had the problem > with kernel 2.6 14 and 2.6.15 (2.6.13 never installed) that the computer > froze, most often during heavy simulation but also without anything > happening. The same happened to some i386 machines as well. With kernels > 2.6.12 and 2.6.16 it hasn't crashed a single time. > I have decided several times to stick to Debian testing but unstable > seems to be more usable and less problematic in many ways. > After reading the incoming mails and talking to my Debian friends I > think I should recommend two things: > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > On this homepage, all of the debian packages and their contents can be > search in such a simple way that even I can do it. > The tool > dselect > is a very handy tool to install packages. I found it difficult to use, but it may be my fault. > You can see the whole list of > installed and available packages. A friend of min recommends aptitude but I > haven't had the time to check it out properly. I found it easier to use that dselect, and I use it. Probably, any such help is a limitation to what can be done if one knowns the system adequately. Which is not my case. I found #aptitude useful to get a broad view on the system. Cheers francesco > The only problem with > dselect is that sometimes (when large unresolved upgrades occur) it want's > to throw out several hundred packages at once and if I am not fast enough > pressing "x", then I need to press plus several hundred times. Pressing x > and using apt-get under such circumstances works perfectly. > > Regards > Gudjon > > > Ps my old mailing list thread > http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/02/msg00125.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]