"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on shopping for packages, I like gnome-apt. It's Xwindows based so if
> X is hosed you can't use it. I tend to avoid GUI's if I can, but
> this one I like :)
>
I would like to suggest stormpkg: has a very useful filter option...
Andrea
Joey Hess wrote
> Chris Palmer wrote:
> > Should I now abandon the settings in dselect and no longer run
> > it? I had attempted to flag things that I wanted to add to my
> > system in there (and I have no idea what they were now).
>
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with using dselect. Just lea
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:55:36PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> A long, long time ago I responded to a Usenet post asking whether or not
> GNU/Linux had any features to prevent users from making an absolute hash
> of things. My response then still stands: bitter experience.
>
> Which
Chris Palmer wrote:
> > According to the usenet this one ("tree connect failed: code 0")
> > almost always has to do something with a mismatch between an older
> > Linux kernel and a newer glibc.
>
> I bet I'm experiencing this problem.
I'd put my money on it as well.
> Do I simply need to
> rec
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:49:15PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Chris Palmer wrote:
> > ok, so I've heard now from a couple folks that I should avoid
> > dselect. It's pretty much been the only way that I'd ever done
> > any package maintenance on my system (I guess I'm behind the
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:57:14PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote
> > on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > Wow, was I surprised when a number of packages were removed from my
> > > system at the en
Chris Palmer wrote:
> ok, so I've heard now from a couple folks that I should avoid
> dselect. It's pretty much been the only way that I'd ever done
> any package maintenance on my system (I guess I'm behind the
> times). It's also the only way I've know about availability of
> packages, and it w
Hi,
on shopping for packages, I like gnome-apt. It's Xwindows based so if
X is hosed you can't use it. I tend to avoid GUI's if I can, but
this one I like :)
-Jon
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote
> on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Wow, was I surprised when a number of packages were removed from my
> > system at the end. I had a fun time getting perl back on my system,
> > and a really cool guy from work crea
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I just joined the list, in hopes of finding a solution to a problem I
> had some time back with upgrading my Debian system via APT/dselect.
>
> I had installed 2.1 from CD, and then used dselect to install nearly
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