php modules problem - gd.so and mysql.so

2004-10-12 Thread Anthony DiSante
g ldconfig after just about every other command. I don't know why php would suddenly break itself after running fine for months without any change in the system's config (the apt-get upgrade that I just did installed ~200 packages)... and I can't seem to make it work now.

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony DiSante
Josh Robinson wrote: thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a shell command. when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that mi

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony DiSante
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mo

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
Josh Robinson wrote: Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your root partition, probably hda1. thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which is which of my various partit

"best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mozilla, and the alsa audio drivers, and gaim, and xfree86, either didn't get installed, o

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable for testing... Most of the time that isn't too much of a problem as "a

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hugo S. Carrer wrote: If the box has a connection to the internet all you need to do is the following: 1) Open as root the file /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor and uncomment or add if missing the folowing lines. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free deb ht

Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I've been using Slackware for a little over a year now, and have loved it except for one thing: installing programs. Most of the time it goes just fine, but the 10% or 20% of the time when it doesn't, it's incredibly frustrating. After spending an entire day last week trying to get Tux