Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:51:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree with those who've mentioned /usr/local. Trying to mix testing > > and unstable is likely to be confusing, particularly if you're new to > > Debian. > > like wha

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-31 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:51:10 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For what it's worth, mozilla should (finally!) be upgraded to 1.5 in > testing as of the next mirror pulse. Also for what it's worth, I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird 0.7 - it is so much faster than Mozilla that I ma

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 mozilla, and

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-31 Thread Akira Kitada
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:51:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages > > available from various sources there. But some things, for example > > mozilla, are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that have > > always "j

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
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 mozilla, and the alsa > aud

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:49, Anthony DiSante wrote: --snip-- > I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages > available from various sources there. But some things, for example mozilla, > are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that have always "just > worke

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:34:38 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > > [snip] > >> to know what things you can get is >> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages >> > > This is down at present. >

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Akira Kitada wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: 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 mozi

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-30 Ãs 16:34, Anthony Campbell escreveu: > On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > This is down at present. apt-cache does the trick, if you have the sources.list entries. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-30 Ãs 15:49, Anthony DiSante escreveu: > 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

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: [snip] > to know what things you can get is > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > This is down at present. A. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/D

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Akira Kitada
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > 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

"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