Thank's for your reply. Obviously I have to study apt- , I've never used that program but I like what I've read about it so far.
Cheers, Helgi Örn Mike McNally wrote: > > imho: debian is always an "old" release. It has the problems consistent > with > being old. But the delay time was is spent in terms of getting things > setup > rather nicely so you don't have to be an expert at configuring all the > myriad > of linux packages. Dselect is great once you get the hang of it. I > don't fight > the conflicts, and if installing pkg-a creates conflicts causing pkg > bcde&f to be > uninstalled I imediately change it all back the way it was, before I > lose track > of what I just messed up. I didn't do this at first and probably had > the mess > you have (but it was still better than redhat). Get to know the symbols > to the > left of the screen in dselect and when conflicts come up think > carefully. > > apt-get may be the best attribute of debian. I upgraded to a new ver of > enlightenment and apt-get went out and gathered up dozens of packages > that > needed to be updated to make it work, reconfigured them and set it all > up. > > mike >
