On Wednesday 10 December 2003 05:32 am, jedd wrote: > On Wed December 10 2003 12:21 am, John Bro wrote: > ] I originally installed debian via Knoppix 3.2 > > ] Once again, my problem is that many KDE apps are crashing, > ] all with the same complaints about lbpthread and kdecore > > ] Is there a better way?? > > Yes. Install Debian from Debian, not from Knoppix. > > Knoppix is a marvellous piece of work, and for wandering > users who don't want to disturb extant hard disks it's a very > useful tool. > > For home users there's precious little going for it. Suffer the > alleged pain of a Debian install (once) and then enjoy the > thrill of painless Debian upgrades (forever). > > Cheers, > Jedd.
I fail to understand this. After running apt-get dist-upgrade what is the difference between a knoppix install and a debian-sid/sarge install? (other then avoiding the pain of a debian woody install?) Thank you for your time. jaz