dcopserver missing after upgrade

2009-01-02 Thread agou
I have just upgraded my system following these instructions: --- Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> 1. change distribution in your sources.list to 'lenny' or 'testing' (latter >> >>works until official Lenny release); >> >> 2. 'aptitude update' >> >> 3. 'aptitud

Command line problem

2008-12-31 Thread agou
I am running the latest stable Debian, and my shell is ksh. On all other UNIXes I am used to getting a message along the line of "No such file ..." from the shell when I issue an unknown command, whether I use ksh or bash; on this system it doesn't happen. No message, just a new prompt. I have

Re: Where do aliases come from?

2008-12-14 Thread agou
Kent West wrote: According to "man ksh": The following aliases are compiled into the shell but can be unset or redefined: Oh, one of those... Thanks for reading the man page for :-) But it didn't use to be like that; I suppose I can live with them, since I never use them anyway. The ones

Where do aliases come from?

2008-12-14 Thread agou
I have installed the latest stable debian (AMD64) not long ago, and I am baffled, to say the least by a thing - normally, one of the first things I do after installing Linux is to hunt down all the "helpful" aliases that are set up in /etc/profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile.d etc etc (I use ksh)

aptitude: No solution found within the allotted time. Try harder? [Y/n]

2008-12-13 Thread agou
Being fairly new to both debian and kde, I am trying to follow the instructions on: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html in order to install kde4. I am not new to Linux, only to debian; I used gentoo before, then ubuntu which I found intolerable because of the tendency to unnece