Re: Re-installing lost package

2006-01-14 Thread Roby
Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Of course you should investigate why it was removed in the first place. > Maybe it was replaced by some other package or was too buggy. Just a > word of warning. Thanks for responding. Without gnofin, my checkbook reverts to order-of-magnitude approximations: a bit of bug

Re: Re-installing lost package

2006-01-14 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Is my "solution" safe and appropriate? Should stable be included in my sources.list permanently? It is pretty safe and I would recommend leaving Stable in "sources.list" because of security updates. You can set the default release in "/etc/apt/apt.conf" like this: APT::Default-Release "rel

Re-installing lost package

2006-01-14 Thread Roby
gnofin vanished from my Kanotix install a couple of weeks ago ... probably during one of those big dist-upgrades. When I apt-get install gnofin, apt said: Package gnofin is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is o