Re: Offline aptitude?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Milligan
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:51:20PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 13:29, Michael Milligan wrote: > > What would be really wonderful, though, would be to convince aptitude > > to save the selections I made into a file, which I could then feed > &

Offline aptitude?

2003-08-09 Thread Michael Milligan
Maintaining as I do a number of machines with poor connectivity to the internet, I make heavy use of the technique described in the "APT Offline Usage Guide" to upgrade packages on these systems. However, I now find that I need something even more powerful: offline aptitude! The situation is,

XEphem broken in testing -- any workaround?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Milligan
Please refer to bug #152025 for more information. When starting XEphem (going back I don't know how many versions) I have observed the following error messages: $ xephem Warning: Cannot convert string "*-lucidatypewriter*medium*-12-*" to type FontStruct Tips: no fixed font ?!? Note that lucidat