On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:57:42 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> Well, after having been advised on the list, to upgrade to Debian 5, > from Debian 4, I have done it, on my laptop, to trial Debian 5. > > As Lisi pointed out, I too didn't find an overwhelming number of suggestions to do as you have chosen. We were trying to correct your misintrepretations. > It appears that it is against my better judgement. > > A piece of advice, do not do things against your better judgement. If you follow advice that breaks your system you get to keep the broken pieces. It is always a good idea to understand what advice is going to do by reading and understanding any documentation that you can find about it previous to entering commands. That being said, the upgrade 4.0-->5.0, from oldstable to stable, shouldn't be any kind of disaster. BTW, the system I'm typing this on is still running Etch and probably will for a while yet, Etch is still getting security upgrades and I don't require any new features or have any hardware that requires a newer kernel. > The Mozilla suite, whether you want to name it seamonkey or iceape, or > whatever, has apparently been removed from Debian, the last version > where it as present, being Debian 4. > > It is kind of like driving a car without a windscreen; it runs, but it > is not nice. > > And there are good reasons of principle that this happened. You may not agree with the principle or the Debian Social Contract or philosophy but you could investigate the reasoning and logic of the decision and thus understand it. In my opinion, it's useless to argue it here. > Also, at the recommeded mirror, .au.debian.org flightgear (one of the > reasons for the upgrade) is not present. So, I assume that that mirror > is not complete. > Well, I find this page on the Internet: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/flightgear And, if you mean ftp://ftp.au.debian.org then I find the package there. ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/flightgear If it isn't in the mirror you use, there would be other mirrors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
