On August 18, 2004 06:38 pm, Mel Broadhurst wrote:
> Graham Monk wrote:
> >On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:27, Michael Walters wrote:
> >>Hello All,
> >>
> >>I was wondering about the differences between Libranet Debian and generic
> >>Debian. I believe that Synaptic is a proprietary Libranet specific Debian
> >>upgrade tool.
> >>
> >>I have Libranet 2.6 and was wondering if on my next upgrade I might use
> >>Debian aptitude instead of libranet synaptic. I had a bad experience with
> >>synaptic recently and was wondering what my options are.
> >>
> >>The bad experience that I had with synaptic was an attempt to upgrade
> >>realplayer pluggin which broke my mozilla browser. I think it took me two
> >>weeks to fix my mozilla browser with a lot of help from the Calgary Linux
> >>Users' Group clug-talk. I ended up using aptitude which seems no harder
> >> to use than synaptic.
> >>
> >>I am not trying to start a flame war. I just think I might be interested
> >> in having a little more flexibility by going generic Debian rather than
> >> Libranet.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Michael Walters
> >
> >Further comment, On looking back through the posts on this topic I
> >have formed the opinion ( it is only an opinion and not very expert
> >one ) that your troubles stemmed from mixing 2 types of installation or
> >update mechanisms. i.e. apt-get/synaptic and RPMs. I may have got
> >completely the wrong end of the stick and am just muddying the
> >water further, if so I apologize.
> >My own experience trying to use apt4rpm on SuSE has convinced me
> >of the advice on the apt4rpm website, if you are going to do it
> >start with a clean install and don't mix and match.
> >
> >My $0.02
> >
> >Graham
> >
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> Michael; Your Libranet install is way out of date. There has been 2.7,
> 2.8 and 2.81. Version 3 is due at any time. Synaptic is a standard
> Debian package and is very simple to use. And foolproof. I have never
> had a problem with it. Aptitude is much more difficult to use and is
> best left for the very experienced. I am not familiar with version 2.6
> but, in 2.7 and later there is a tool called the admin menu which is
> only availabel to Libranet users.
> The basic difference between Libranet and the standard Debian is that
> the latter is always outdated being based on the stable branch. Libranet
> on the other hand is basically based on the testing branch, so is quite
> up to date as far as packages go. I could burn you a copy of 2.8 if you
> wish or you could go to Libranet's website and download 2.81 free of
> charge at the moment.
> You would be well advised to visit the Libranet forum which is probably
> one of the most friendly and helpfull of any distro site and peruse the
> various topics, which by the way are searchable.
> Regards
> Mel Broadhurst
>
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Hello Mel Broadhurst,
Thank you for your information. As I do not have a CD burner please do burn a
copy of 2.8 for me. I have lost track of the admin menu when I got mozilla
working again. I travel on transit. How would I get the CD from you? I live
in Ramsay district near downtown. My guess is that the admin menu caused me
problems because I have not kept my libranet current.
I will try to get to my admin menu to make sure I know which version I really
have.
Regards,
Michael
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