Hi Paul, I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if you're too using Lenny) deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free run 'aptitude update', ignore the error msg, install the backports-keyring an update again: # aptitude update # aptitude install debian-backports-keyring # aptitude update Then you can install wicd as follows: # aptitude install -t etch-backports wicd However, when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless, I cancelled the installation. Greetings, Manon. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul E Condon<pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > On 2009-08-05_15:28:21, Preston Boyington wrote: >> Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> <snipped> >> >> > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is >> > installed on my Acer Aspire one... >> >> Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second >> thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the >> update-manager because I prefer to use Aptitude). >> >> wicd has been flawless for me since i started using it. >> > > I find myself with a very puzzling problem. I want to look at wicd, > but I can't. When I tried to install it with aptitude, I could not > find it using / search. More puzzling still - I am using approx, the > apt proxy, running on a lenny machine that is separate from my desktop > and my Acer. I know the proxy is working because I have been using it > for at least two months to configure two other specialized servers and > my desktop. I used it in the re-install of lenny today, and it worked > for that. I still cannot find wicd in aptitude on the Acer, even after > this totally new install. **But** I can find it in aptitude on my > desktop host. The only differences that I can think of are things that > surely should not affect the visibility of a package in aptitude, > namely: > > 1) I selected laptop in tasksel for tha Acer, but not for any of the > other hosts. > > 2) I use /etc/hosts on the other machines, but DHCP on the Acer (DHCP > is being served by my D-Link router. It has been doing it successfully > for a longggg time for the iMacs on the LAN and it allows the Acer to > access the web) > > What could I be doing wrong? Any ideas, anyone? I'm really pretty > sure that neither of these differences is the cause of the problem. > I must be doing something really dumb, but I can't see what it is. > > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
