Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > > certainly a change. I remember when I got Hel

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > > certainly a change. I remember when I got Hel

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. that's the stupid part about all this: x

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: :: Ross Boylan :: > Is this a bug with anything, or just an inevitable result of trying to put > unlike things (ximian and debian) together? If you are running unstable (sid), you should not be running Ximian's Gnome. Purge their packages (they have xim

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread joeytsai
> Since I've been running "sid" and Ximian's Gnome packages, until I did > an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday, I saw no problems. Then, I ran into > a similar problem as the original poster -- there was a debian package > newer than the ximian one and it caused a brief headache. > > Why exactly s

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
> If you are running unstable (sid), you should not be running > Ximian's Gnome. Purge their packages (they have ximian or > helix in their version) and use Debian's. Since I've been running "sid" and Ximian's Gnome packages, until I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday, I saw no problems. Then

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a similar problem, but slightly different packages: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but > 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed > libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-d

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread joeytsai
:: Ross Boylan :: > Is this a bug with anything, or just an inevitable result of trying to put > unlike things (ximian and debian) together? If you are running unstable (sid), you should not be running Ximian's Gnome. Purge their packages (they have ximian or helix in their version) and use Debian

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a similar problem, but slightly different packages: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
> dpkg --purge gnome-control-center gnome-panel > > then do the rest of the ximian/helix purging as described earlier. > > also make sure your sources.list do NOT contain ximian or helix > sources and run apt-get update. Thanks for your help, that did the trick. I think I'll try Windowmaker

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > this may only affect the woody dpkg but setting COLLUMS (that looks > spelled wrong) will adjust this. Very nice! I had no idea. Thanks. Oh, it's COLUMNS. :) > i think apt has a --force-downgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]$ apt-get --force-downgra

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:20:16PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of > "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers t

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers tend to be quite long, and "dpkg -l" offers no way to specify a field width. I (mos

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +0100, Simon wrote: > I cannot remove any of the packages. Whatever I attempt to remove I > just get the following error:- > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
On (15/04/01 14:45), Ethan Benson wrote: > purge every gnome package. removing task-* packages does not remove > anything. > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > then try a apt-get install task-gnome with your sources.list NOT > including ximian/helix. > I cannot remove a

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:36:52PM +0100, simon wrote: > I cannot apt-get -f install out of it as that fails with the same > error. I thought I would remove helix completely and then reinstall > gnome, but apt is telling me I do not have task-helix-gnome > installed. I'm at a bit of a loss. Am I r

newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread simon
I'm new to Linux and even newer to Debian. I am running woody, and today (15th) I did an apt-get upgrade that's messed up Gnome. I was running Helix Gnome, although I did plan to remove it and go back to plain Gnome...whatever the update did today it seems to have replaced parts of Helix Gnome wit