Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Oliver Elphick writes: >Does your /etc/apt/sources.list reference woody or stable? > >They used to be the same, but now there is a new stable, sarge. So if >you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as >obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete >u

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
Martin McCormick wrote: In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly wha

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:06 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Today, here at work, I was going to install bittorrent on ta > Debian system and I used dselect to list the packages in order to find > bittorrent. It found it and I started to install from there except I > saw that dselect was als

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/05 12:06), Martin McCormick wrote: > In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay > some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message > is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly > robust. Like anything, there are gotchas.

dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly what happened, but I last wee