First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine.
I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the archive. It can get involved... Bb -----Original Message----- From: Brian Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie Questions Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't work. When I look at it's properties I see "gnome-help-browser" however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine. Where do I get this? Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment. I added unstable to my sources.list file and did apt-get update apt-get install enlightenment It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest enlightenment? Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first? Thanks very much!!! Brian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
