On Thursday 30 December 2004 16:53, Alexander Toresson wrote: > I tried running alsaconf, only to find out that it didn't exist on my > system.
Well, yeah. So install it.... > So I fired up aptitude to find it. It was a virtual package. > It took some time to understand that I couldn't install that virtual > package and that it was replaced by alsa-utils. ??? Of course you can install a virtual package. They depend on the real packages. apt-get install alsaconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting alsa-utils instead of alsaconf alsa-utils is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Works for me. > So I downloaded it, > and to my surprise, it was depending on the package alsa-base, which I > then had to configure. Isn't alsa built into the kernel 2.6 and later? You apparently haven't heard of apt-get... Yes, alsa _modules_ are built into 2.6, but you still need alsa-base to configure them. apt-get would get the dependencies. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
