On 2004-02-02, Marius Amado Alves penned:
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>>You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single
>>release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your
>>system quickly unless you really know what you're doing.
>>
> Now you tell me! ;-) Ok, I'll start over. Kee
You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single
release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your
system quickly unless you really know what you're doing.
Now you tell me! ;-)
Ok, I'll start over.
Keeping the faith :-)
Thanks a lot.
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On Monday 02 February 2004 11:26 am, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>>I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or
>>unstable.
> That's part of the problem. I had to try several versions to try to get
> e.g. kde and gnome (which failed). I whish there was some *really*
> stable n
How do I clean up?
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
Says debconf not installed. Is that grave? I wasn't able to understand
what debconf is yet.
Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice?
I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or
unstable.
That's part of the pro
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:44 pm, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of
> source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially
> failed (gnome, kde, cups-client...) Do I suspect right or can I trust
> apt-get to have done the
Peter Bonucci wrote:
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On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote:
I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used
Knoppix for the hard disk installation.
Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased
pr
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On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote:
> I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used
> Knoppix for the hard disk installation.
> Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased
> printing contro
Pigeon wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Marius Amado Alves wrote:
* Printing/CUPS *
I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web
interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the
applications. It's an HP DeskJet on
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:48:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Pigeon wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> >>Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> >>
> >>>* Printing/CUPS *
> >>>I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web
> >>>interface, but this p
Thanks all w.r.t. windows and printing systems. Slightly better now:
running icewm instead of twn, and lp seems to print PS files.
But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of
source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially
failed (gnome, kde, cups
Pigeon wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Marius Amado Alves wrote:
* Printing/CUPS *
I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web
interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the
applications. It's an HP Des
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> >* Printing/CUPS *
> >I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web
> >interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the
> >applications. It's an HP DeskJet on t
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> * Window/Desktop System *
> I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change
> to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with
> apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to p
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network
> of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach
> on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right
> archive
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:10 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Gnome 2.2 I get from the evilgeniuses backport
> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992
> There probably is something similar for KDE too
KDE for Woody is available from download.kde.org. Add this to your
sources.list:
deb http://
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:56, Kent West wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>
> > * Window/Desktop System *
> > I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change
> > to a more modern system? [...]
> You've probably installed stable, which is ancient. stable is suitable
> for
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote:
> I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art.
> I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years
> now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can.
> And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer
Marius Amado Alves wrote:
* Window/Desktop System *
I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change
to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with
apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put in my
sources.list? (I don't have CDs yet, jus
I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network
of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach
on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right
archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me
the old fas
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