Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:46:42PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > read on how to work with Linux fails because of other distros > proprietary changes. Debian seems to be the most "Linux-like" of the > distributions, and the community support, an

Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-31 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello Everybody, On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 01:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > Try using the update option in the menu. dselect's also pretty > cumbersome to deal with in general, I strongly reccommend aptitude > now. I installed aptitude, and ran it. It mentioned a few packages that had updates waiting.

Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:16:36AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > 1) Getting dselect (and whatever dependent listings it relies on) > consistent with the packages I have (and want) on my system. I am > afraid to turn dselect loose after selectin

Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello, I've just re-subscribed, and maybe this is just being discussed now. If so, I can't see it - I don't have any recent messages before today. I installed Woody on my Thinkpad last week, and then added sources in testing so I could install the later sane packages, to get my Memorex scanner w