I started with the company in February and at least since then the machine hasn't been updated. As I said I'm not really familiar with the package mechanism of Debian. Therefore I just surfed around and found that apt is the program so I just did 'apt-get install'. I investigated some more and I found that the sources.list has these entries:
deb http://ftp.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-freedeb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free That's probably why it tried to install the latest packages. If I replace 'unstable' with 'woody' or download the affected packages by hand, can't I do a forced install of them? The machine is still up and I've got a gnome-terminal and firefox running. Starting new stuff doesn't work but the things that are started seem to work ok. In the console most stuff doesn't work but I can start Midnight Commander and that seems to be able to do everything. The other poster suggested upgrading the kernel. That isn't a viable solution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
