Phil Beder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PB> I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape, PB> Mozilla and others and seem to have compatibility problems with the version PB> of Debian I'm running. I thought I had 2.1.1, but in fact it returns Ver PB> 2.0.36 when issued the uname -a command.
uname will return the version of the Linux kernel, not of the Debian distribution. Looking in /etc/debian_version should tell you what version of Debian you actually have. But Debian 2.1 is pretty old, especially by Linux standards. Debian 2.2 has been out for over a year at this point, and includes some more recent versions of the software you care about (including, for example, Gtk+ 1.2 and GNU libc 2.1.3). (For really really new software, you might find stable too old, particularly if you have things that require really new versions of GNOME and/or you want prebuilt things in Debian packages. But for general-purpose use there's a good chance you'll find stable does it for you, particularly if you have old-stable now.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
