Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I use less to peek into tarballs; and deb files, and so on. I am appending my version of the lessopen script (look at /usr/bin/lesspipe and /usr/doc/less/LESOPEN.gz). No fuss, no muss, and I don't have to learn how to use mc ;-) manoj #!/bin/sh # Decode directories: if [ -

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > > > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be > > > inappropriate > > > I think --

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate > > I think -- standard is for things which are standard

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that > > > good. > > > > DEFINITELY! > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > and certainly

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish wrote: >I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, >and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate >I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a Unix system, >and should probably be as

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that > > > good. > > > > DEFINITELY! > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than o

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that > > good. > > DEFINITELY! I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard w

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Terence Kearns wrote: [snip] > Are you using the Midnight Commander (MC) file manager? If so the easy > way > is to "step into" (using MC's VFS capability - with cursor line on tarball, > press enter) the tar file on one panel so you can see all the

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Terence Kearns wrote: > > Well I have a somewhat broken installation of apache 1.2.6 that I want > to remove, I can't use dpkg because it wasn't installed with debian. How > do I go about cleanly removing the old one so that I can install apache > 1.3.0 - is it just a matter of going through and d

Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-13 Thread Terence Kearns
Well I have a somewhat broken installation of apache 1.2.6 that I want to remove, I can't use dpkg because it wasn't installed with debian. How do I go about cleanly removing the old one so that I can install apache 1.3.0 - is it just a matter of going through and deleting all the directories manua