On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:41:00PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I am new to Debian & am trying to figure out a few things. > > How do I solve the folloing error message? > > <snip> > (none):/home/haralambos# ./synaptic
The '(none)' means your machine doesn't have a hostname. Is that deliberate? > bash: ./synaptic: No such file or directory ./ means 'this directory'. I'm fairly sure synaptic isn't installed in /home/haralambos :-) > (none):/home/haralambos# synaptic > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > synaptic:could not open display Either use xhost as someone else suggested, or install 'sudo'. > Secondly, what is the easiest way to point Synaptic to a local Debian > mirror & download/install it? I'm fairly sure synaptic is Yet Another Apt Frontend, so you'll need to edit /etc/apt/source.list to point at the mirror you want. -rob
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