On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:53:33PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You responded to my call for help yesterday and I appreciate any >that I can get. Thank you! I'm not sure I should contact you directly >but here I am. Please let me know if it's inappropriate and I'll >stop. I'd really like to switch to linux but it's not easy. I have the >Debian etch package(23 discks) but so far there useless to me. I've >followed your directions but got nowhere. When I went to synaptic >package manager and did the search some of the options would not >select for installation. Any idea whats happening.
Well, first of all, I'm happy to help, as are many others on the debian-user list. It is considered not only general courtesy, but also helpful, too keep "on-topic" (and many off-topic) discussions on the list. So this reply is being cc'd to the list as well. This will provide others with an opportunity to help (which we may need!) and also a record of what we learned in case it helps others. So, you must try to do a better job of specifically describing your situation and what the results of your actions are. We can't see the screen so things like "would not select for installation" may make perfect sense to you sitting in front of your etch machine, but are pretty useless to us as it could mean anything from: "I tried to select some items for installation, but it would not even let me select them..." to "I selected some things and hit apply and nothing happened" to " I hit apply and it started to download packages but failed" etc etc etc. These are all symptoms of different problems with different solutions. I am guessing from the context above and you're previous posting that you have a fully functional Debian Etch system with GNOME Desktop Environment working, but you don't have any applications installed and can't figure out how to use the package manager or how to properly configure the package manager. Please answer this question *AND* provide the contents of your sources.list file. Question: how do you want to access software for installation: 1) from the 23 cd's you have, or 2) you have a fast internet connection and would like to just download them from the net (preferred method!)? sources.list: this file controls *where* the package manager looks for packages to install. Provide us with the 8EXACT* contents of that file. To see the contents, you need a terminal: Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. This will provide a window with a text interface. at the prompt type this exact command: cat /etc/apt/sources.list and it will print out the contents of that file. Enter that information into your response. Please try to be as accurate as possible. And for your leisure time reading: head over to www.debian.org and read the documentation; google "smart questions" an read that as well. It will help you get better response from the list. most important... its a big learning curve but the results are really rewarding, so stick with it! A
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