Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:57:59PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:41:14PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr insinuated: > > run: > > > > cat /etc/debian_version > > > > A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is > > 2.2. > > woah, so according to this, i'm ru

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
problem solved after taking couragous leap of faith - debian rules, i am so very impressed i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0700, darrell wrote: Is this in potato? i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing? yes run: cat /etc/debian_version A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is 2.2. If you

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:41:14PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr insinuated: > run: > > cat /etc/debian_version > > A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is > 2.2. woah, so according to this, i'm running woody. heh, and i didn't even know. what is this classification dependent

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0700, darrell wrote: > Is this in potato? > > i am still a debian newbie - havent quite figured out how to tell where > i am getting my packages / package lists and if there are > multiple versions, > ( i ahve edidted the apt-get sources file, but, there > is

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
Is this in potato? i am still a debian newbie - havent quite figured out how to tell where i am getting my packages / package lists and if there are multiple versions, ( i ahve edidted the apt-get sources file, but, there is no clear indication with those urls if i am in testing stable or wha

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-16 Thread Craig Dickson
darrell wrote: > in the past i tried to learn lyx and latex, was interested, so thought i > would try again ( after reading some thread from debian list on word > perfect, if i may say so, i have known many many people to be very > attached to that program too! ) > > > lyx depenends on libfor

wrestling with dselect

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
in the past i tried to learn lyx and latex, was interested, so thought i would try again ( after reading some thread from debian list on word perfect, if i may say so, i have known many many people to be very attached to that program too! ) lyx depenends on libforms libforms dep xpm4g xpm4g c