How To Downgrade XFree86 From 4.2.1 to 4.1.0 ?

2004-07-25 Thread Nick Boyce
Hi Folks Because of the trouble I had trying to upgrade my Woody KDE 3.1.4 to the Woody 3.2.2 debs at download.k.o : (http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/07/msg00121.html) and the comments from others (thanks Nate) that it's probably due to my use of backported XFree86 4.2.1, I've been

Re: apt-* (dist-)upgrade 3.1.4 to 3.2.2 Woody Debs Very Alarming

2004-07-25 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:47:36 +0100, I wrote: >I'd like to try out the upgrade path from KDE 3.1.4 to KDE 3.2.2 using >the Woody debs that someone (Andreas Mueller ?) has posted at >download.kde.org. > >My system is running vanilla Woody, apart from XFree86 which I >upgraded from Woody's 4.1.0 to b

Re: How To Downgrade XFree86 From 4.2.1 to 4.1.0 ?

2004-07-25 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Nick, On second thought, I'm not so sure downgrading X will solve your problem. See my next message. On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:56 am, Nick Boyce wrote: > Does anyone have a nice/best way of doing this X downgrade ? You *might* be able to do this by running something similar to the following:

Re: apt-* (dist-)upgrade 3.1.4 to 3.2.2 Woody Debs Very Alarming

2004-07-25 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
On Monday 12 July 2004 10:47 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: > I'd like to try out the upgrade path from KDE 3.1.4 to KDE 3.2.2 using > the Woody debs that someone (Andreas Mueller ?) has posted at > download.kde.org. > > My system is running vanilla Woody, apart from XFree86 which I > upgraded from Woody's

packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here. In my experience, aptitude has its own set of pro

KWeather -- Station Help Needed

2004-07-25 Thread Robert Tilley
I live in Titusville, FL. The NOAA site brings up "KTIX" as the local station ID. KWeather complains that the station ID "KTIX" does not exist. Help me resolve this. -- Q: Why is Poland just like the United States? A: In the United States you can't buy anything for zlotys and in

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: >>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that >>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary >>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it h

Re: KWeather -- Station Help Needed

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I live in Titusville, FL. The NOAA site brings up "KTIX" as the local > station > ID. > > KWeather complains that the station ID "KTIX" does not exist. Try a different case? ICAO is case sensitive, lowercase works for me. pgpPArQrCnNlq.pgp Descrip

POP filters in KMail

2004-07-25 Thread Peter Clark
I'm running KMail 1.6.2 with KDE 3.2.3, and I am unable to get the POP filters working. What I want to do is filter out messages that have been flagged as spam; the POP server I connect to nicely runs SpamAssassin, but leaves it up to the user to decide what to do about it. It appends a

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:30:50 -0600 (MDT), Bruce Sass wrote: >>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that >>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary >>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here. >> >> In my experience,

Re: POP filters in KMail

2004-07-25 Thread David P James
On Sun 25 July 2004 12:02, Peter Clark wrote: > I'm running KMail 1.6.2 with KDE 3.2.3, and I am unable to get the > POP filters working. What I want to do is filter out messages that > have been flagged as spam; the POP server I connect to nicely runs > SpamAssassin, but leaves it up to the