Hi Paul, Sorry, made an error. You should use or course:
> # aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd Greetings, Manon. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Metten<manon.met...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
