Michael Walters wrote:
Michael: Call me at 932-3502 in the evening or during the day on my cell phone at 818-4647
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Michael; Your Libranet install is way out of date.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 The basic difference between Libranet and the standard Debian is that the latter is always outdated being based on the stable branch.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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Regards
Mel
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