i am trying to use apt and typing ... in pon......'apt-get' without the ' of course i get msgs about not being able to contact host. It seems to be looking on the web for debian and just is not able to connect can you tell me what is wrong? What i'm trying to do is get linux independent of windows .. (if i download now i have to do it to a dos drive because i dn't have anything that will work in the web in linux.. ) when i do that i have to mount a dos drive and gzip and tar it and the function of those in that manner seems to be unpredictable.. i never get anythign out of them .. just changes in the file names i dont' know what to do to get it to a workable usable program.. At the moment i'm trying to use apt to get bitchx.. as i said i get cannot find host error msgs
I have a bone to pick with you . There are a bunch of irc linux channels.. on of them Debian.net #debian. most of these channels are not very active and no one is actually there even though thier nicks are there . If you get help sometimes it is great really patient people and quite helpful but most of the time you get ignored, or in the worst you receive impolite comments and even insults . What is going on ?? you guys have something very good here and you wish to get it into the public in a much greater way than it is now. However your public relations are terrible and so is support for dummies like me.. I know , you are not responsible for the irc sites but i bet that most of you are there somewhere . So i make that connection and so will others.. that is for your info.. Can you steer me toward a one on one live conversation with someone in irc or elsewhere where i can get help?? i cannot learn well in the book environment but i learn quickly if i can learn by doing .... i need somekind of help but am not getting it ... I"M in Omaha, Ne thanks tom
