I'm new to debian - actually Knoppix on a hard disk. The sources.list was just the woody 3.0r2 cdroms. I installed Sylpheed from those disks since that is the email client of choice for my wife.
I wanted to upgrade to a later version of Sylpheed. Added an internet source to sources.list: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib apt-get update apt-get install sylpheed produced a list of packages to download: over 28mb. Too much for my dial-up connection this morning. Downloaded the latest .tar.bz2 file, 2+mb ./configure, make, make install worked a treat. My question: Why did apt-get think I needed so much additional material? Is there some different command I should use? etc, etc, etc. Thanks, Alan -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
