is to look like, so
I suggest you get writing, rather than leaving it up to someone else
to second-guess what it is you want.
> this will act as a readme for all
> debian based distros to use apt as their only package manager.
> then distros can just say read "man apt" upon inst
hi
please add the most necessary and common examples of package management
with apt to the synopsis of "man apt". this will act as a readme for all
debian based distros to use apt as their only package manager. cli package
management is way better than ubuntu's software package mana
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:39 -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> I've heard people advocate the newbie-kindness of distros like Ubuntu
> and Mepis.
>
> If ultimately they use the same set of packages, then what's different
> at a technical level between these and plain old Debian? Do they
> differ
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:39 -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> I've heard people advocate the newbie-kindness of distros like Ubuntu
> and Mepis.
>
> If ultimately they use the same set of packages, then what's different
> at a technical level between these and plain old Debian? Do they
> differ
I've heard people advocate the newbie-kindness of distros like Ubuntu
and Mepis.
If ultimately they use the same set of packages, then what's different
at a technical level between these and plain old Debian? Do they
differe merely in the set of initially installed packages and what they
do u
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:09:08PM -0400, stan wrote:
> What distribution would you point apt-sources to to upgrade a Progeny
> machine? stable?
At this point, Progeny is so far gone, taking the sources.list from a
stable machine should work. I recom
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote:
> stan wrote:
> >
> >A general wor of wisdom here, for what it's worth.
> >
> >I once made the mistake of allowing myself to be sucked in by the siren
> >song of these offshot distors. As a result I am stuck with 2 machines (one
> >at
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On Monday 06 October 2003 10:38 pm, Mental Patient wrote:
> > Mental:
> > I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar
> > to me. How do I remove it?
>
> Its in the apt howto. For the sake of brevity, here's a url:
> http:/
Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
On Monday 06 October 2003 08:49 pm, Mental Patient wrote:
I also removed the apt-pinning that was going on.
Mental:
I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar to
me. How do I remove it?
Its in the apt howto. For the sake of brevity, here's a u
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On Monday 06 October 2003 08:49 pm, Mental Patient wrote:
> I also removed the apt-pinning that was going on.
Mental:
I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar to
me. How do I remove it?
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Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
Mental:
Please forgive me jumping in here, I have just finished a Knoppix hard disk
install, and need guideance in how to convert to unstable. The last time I
tried I ended up with several version of hotplug and several essential files
went missing, It was a horrible mess
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On Monday 06 October 2003 08:06 pm, Mental Patient wrote:
> Sure, knoppix jumped the gun on packageing X 4.3 and I had a couple
> minor problems with it, but it was easily fixed. Further the
> dist-upgrade to sid was a little bumpy, but thats to be ex
stan wrote:
A general wor of wisdom here, for what it's worth.
I once made the mistake of allowing myself to be sucked in by the siren
song of these offshot distors. As a result I am stuck with 2 machines (one
at home, and one at work), bith of which I still actively use, but can't,
in any reasona
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:09:15PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >> So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going
> >with
> >> a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at
> >> Knoppix's site right n
Hall Stevenson wrote:
I sent this before I actually started *reading* Knoppix's page... :-) I
guess I was thinking of Libranet instead, not Knoppix, espcially being
that it normally runs off of a CD. I sure don't want that.
indeed it runs off of a CD - nevertheless you can copy it to your hd
usi
At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going
with
> a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at
> Knoppix's site right now...
Knoppix aims to produce a bootable, runnable, fairly complete desktop
s
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:51:59AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> I've recently built a new box for myself and would like to put Linux back
> on it. I started with RH back between their 5.0 and 5.1 release, switched
> to Mandrake for a while, and have been running Debian (u
I've recently built a new box for myself and would like to put Linux back
on it. I started with RH back between their 5.0 and 5.1 release, switched
to Mandrake for a while, and have been running Debian (unstable) for a
couple years or more. I'm tempted to take the easy way out and just add the
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