Re: apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
Jens, Thanks for the ideas. In fact, today, I did a Google search on ``/etc/apt/preferences" and got many of the same results. My German is not as good as my Scandinavian languages (I did post- graduate study in Sweden and later married a Norwegian-American whom I met while she was majoring in S

Re: kscd & cddb

2001-10-13 Thread Kamil Kisiel
On October 13, 2001 03:50, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2001 03:40 schrieb Kamil Kisiel: > > I am having a problem writing to my local cddb database from kscd 1.3.2., > > using the latest packages from unstable. Every time I access the cddb > > database, I get an error message s

Re: Failed upgrade to KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-13 Thread Brian Button
> "Oliver" == Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oliver> Hope this is a clue, at least. Thanks a bunch for the answer, and I'll keep that message in the special place that I have for special, hold-your-mouth-in-just-the-right-way solutions to problems :) Like my other message said,

Re: Failed upgrade to KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-13 Thread Oliver Johns
Dear Brian, I'm not sure about this, but I think that the problem is that some files have moved from one package to another one in the transition from 2.1.2 to 2.2.1. Thus, from your information below, it appears that /usr/lib/kde2/libkcm_screensaver.la is now in kdebase-libs whereas it used

Re: Failed upgrade to KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-13 Thread Brian Button
> "Brian" == Brian Button <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Well, I had KDE 2.1.2 installed, and I couldn't leave well Brian> enough alone :( I just had to get KDE 2.2.1, just for Brian> fun. I shoulda known better :) Brian> I thought I read around this list, and a couple oth

Failed upgrade to KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-13 Thread Brian Button
Well, I had KDE 2.1.2 installed, and I couldn't leave well enough alone :( I just had to get KDE 2.2.1, just for fun. I shoulda known better :) I thought I read around this list, and a couple others who had successfully done this, so it couldn't be that hard, right?? So what happened? My /etc/ap

apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep in the Debian website. To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I

Re: kscd & cddb

2001-10-13 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2001 03:40 schrieb Kamil Kisiel: > I am having a problem writing to my local cddb database from kscd 1.3.2., > using the latest packages from unstable. Every time I access the cddb > database, I get an error message saying that