Many thanks to all. I've got a clean, working version of gnome now.
Joe
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:11:36PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> > Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> > spare time (HA!) and I
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a
>
> dpkg -l | grep ximian
>
> and
>
> dpkg -l | grep xim
>
> yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> I could be wrong (I often am), but try:
>
> apt-get install gnome-session
>
> This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line
> 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more
> preferred way?
>
oe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:03 AM
> To: 'Anand S'
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
>
again,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: 'Anand S'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 20
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mind, that there's plenty of documentation out there to help you through
your upgrade troubles.
-Andy
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> &g
(a
la apt-get install task-gnome)?
Jeremy
-Original Message-
From: Joe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:10 AM
To: 'Anand S'
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
Uh boy. So how to I rectify this
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:09, Joe Biron wrote:
> Uh boy. So how to I rectify this? I do have several packages that are
> not installing correctly, such as libgnomeprint-data and other packages
> that are in its depends tree.
>
> Should I remove the Ximian sources from my sources.list and then
> "
do a dist-upgrade after that,
will I get the Woody-compatible gnome?
Thanks,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or tes
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
> My \etc\apt\sources.
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> Eventually (in fact it may have already happened, I can't remember)
> woody will be frozen, outstanding bugs will be fixed as well as may be
> and then woody will become the stable distribution.
Woody is almost completely frozen, nothing
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:21:15AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> > Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
>
> I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
Yes, or "Still In Development", depending on whom you believe. :)
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> [ big big snip ]
>
> Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
> When woody is released as stable, then all the packages in sid are
> migrated into the new testing distribution, which
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote:
> Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie,
> and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but
> nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and
> GNOME, after hours of playing with
On 0, Joe Biron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
Yes.
> My \etc\apt\sources.list is
Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm
> > wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato
> > or woody?
>
> I find that the biggest problem with woody is the update process.
> Packa
Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm
> wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato
> or woody?
I find that the biggest problem with woody is the update process.
Packages are often installed with broken
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering
> if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody?
>
> The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and
> "offic
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering
> if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody?
>
> The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and
> "offic
%% "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cwa> I see all of the code names "Potato & Woody" mentioned in
cwa> a lot of the discussions. Who is newer, Potato or Woody?
cwa> How do I know which version that I just got in the mail?
cwa> My "official" CD's indicate that I have Ve
Woody is the development version
Potato is the stable version, also called version 2.2.
If you're looking for stability and reliability for a production machine
(high-availability webserver), go for potato. If you want the "bleeding edge",
go
for woody. Or, if you're completely insane, like me,
Debian 2.2 is potato. Woody is the current "unstable" version, which
will receive a number when it is released.
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> I'm obviously a Debian newbie, although I've been using
> Linux and FreeBSD for several years as a "home workstat
woody is newer, but it is "unstable"
potato is the current stable(only a few weeks old)
i'd highly reccomend sticking to potato and only installing individual
woody packages if they are not in potato unless you want to get into
some testing, as woody is evolving all the time. right now woody/potat
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