Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-20 Thread John Summerfield
David Bokan wrote: Hello all, I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages from the testing release, however, a. www.apt-get.org This

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-20 Thread Douglas Ward
David Bokan wrote: Hello all, I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to d

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 16 August 2004 14:19, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) > I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want > to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have > to get packages from the testing

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-17 Thread listcomm
> Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room That, IIRC, is a bug which has been there since day 0 and has to be corrected by putting an entry expanding your cache size, in the "apt.conf" file. I'm hazy on the details (it's been a MONTH already) but you can google for the e

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:19:32PM -0400, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) > I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to > get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to > get packages from t

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:19:32PM -0400, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using > the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some > other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages > from t

Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-16 Thread David Bokan
Title: Help using Apt-Get Hello all, I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages from the testing release, however, I am u