Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 01 August 2008 17:10, Bob Cox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 07:37:33 -0700, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vwaju: > > > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > > > > O'Reilly book

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 07:37:33 -0700, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vwaju: > > > > > > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > > > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The serve

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vwaju: > > > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is > > only for training (to learn Debian and networking). > If it's not publicly av

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is > only for training (to learn Debian and networking). If it's not publicly available, you could do that. But since lenny is already on its way, I re

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is > only for training (to learn Debian and networking). > > Therefore, maybe I could install the version of Debian that

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 1, 6:20 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jochen Schulz: > > > > > You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't > > install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you > > might get dependency problems when packages from etch with packa

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: > > You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't > install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you > might get dependency problems when packages from etch with packages from > sarge. I meant to write: ...when packages from etch *confli

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: > > Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ > sources.list and then say: > > # apt-get install xlispstat You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you might get dependency p

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But then again, you might want to look at R. OK, it seems that xlispstat has not been updated since 2003. (Cut & pasted from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/xlispstat/ if you browse to the Src mirror and then go to "current".) Re

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ > sources.list and then say: Not a good idea, because then you'd be mixing distributions, and sarge is Pretty Old Now. I haven't played with xlispstat in several years

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Vwaju
On Jul 31, 11:00 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xlispstat > > This shows that it was available in sarge (stable Debian version before > etch). You might have success fetching the .deb manually and installing > it with 'dpkg -i $package.de

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: > Here's the output: > > Reading package lists...Done > Building dependence tree...Done > wget is already the newest version > Package xlispstat is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is > only available

error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Vwaju
I have a good working knowledge of BASH, Linux tools, system calls, and something about internals. I'm trying to learn networking by building an internet server, using the O'Reilly cookbook "Linux System Administration" (Adelstein). I'm new to Debian, and the book is kind of light on explanation,