Many thanks to all. I've got a clean, working version of gnome now.
Joe
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:11:36PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> > Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> > spare time (HA!) and I
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a
>
> dpkg -l | grep ximian
>
> and
>
> dpkg -l | grep xim
>
> yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> I could be wrong (I often am), but try:
>
> apt-get install gnome-session
>
> This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line
> 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more
> preferred way?
>
oe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:03 AM
> To: 'Anand S'
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
>
again,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: 'Anand S'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 20
n
mind, that there's plenty of documentation out there to help you through
your upgrade troubles.
-Andy
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> &g
(a
la apt-get install task-gnome)?
Jeremy
-Original Message-
From: Joe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:10 AM
To: 'Anand S'
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
Uh boy. So how to I rectify this
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:09, Joe Biron wrote:
> Uh boy. So how to I rectify this? I do have several packages that are
> not installing correctly, such as libgnomeprint-data and other packages
> that are in its depends tree.
>
> Should I remove the Ximian sources from my sources.list and then
> "
do a dist-upgrade after that,
will I get the Woody-compatible gnome?
Thanks,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or tes
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
> My \etc\apt\sources.
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> Eventually (in fact it may have already happened, I can't remember)
> woody will be frozen, outstanding bugs will be fixed as well as may be
> and then woody will become the stable distribution.
Woody is almost completely frozen, nothing
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:21:15AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> > Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
>
> I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
Yes, or "Still In Development", depending on whom you believe. :)
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> [ big big snip ]
>
> Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
> When woody is released as stable, then all the packages in sid are
> migrated into the new testing distribution, which
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote:
> Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie,
> and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but
> nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and
> GNOME, after hours of playing with
On 0, Joe Biron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
Yes.
> My \etc\apt\sources.list is
Title: Message
Could someone point a newbie to
an explanation of the Debian release universe? A friend explained it to me
as "Woody is the newest... you want Woody". Well, is Potato then the
"stable" and Woody the "testing"? My \etc\apt\sources.list
is
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/deb
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