Sid Blackley said:
> ie. small in stature, tremdously powerfull and fast as
> lightning!
Admirable, to be sure, but when the best tool for the job is slightly
larger than a far inferior and slightly smaller tool I'd say that a
little chubbiness is ok.
> Same problem as b4. leafnode is not finding the
> server.
Erm, why leafnode? I've not used anything but slrn for reading for years.
slrn -h [newshost]
> To remove newsx using deselect I encounter literally hours of work
> resetting deps!
Best thing to do, ditch dselect. While I found it quite useful when I
first installed Debian 5 or so years ago there's no way I'd use it now.
For the CLI:
apt-get -su install
s for simulate and u to show what packages will be updated. That way
you can tell what is going to happen before doing it and try to avoid
those massive deb dependancy blow outs.
For the console:
apititude
Tell it to ignore suggests and recommends and it is very simple to use,
tells you exactly what its going to do and lets you change or back out
of it before doing it. A breeze to use and the first console app to
wrest me away from apt-get install since I learned about apt-get instal.
OTOH I also just found out about apt-chache show/search so it is about
50/50 now.
> I am more at sea with the Debian + newsreader function.
Just install slrn and nothing else. Slrn and what it depends on,
period. It can access news servers just fine. Get that working and try
it out before tring to make a local spool. If you must go for a local
spool give slrnpull a try. Personally I'd like it if NOFFLE or
something similar worked ok.
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