Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-24 Thread Moritz Beller
Hello! As already discribed in a prior posting I want to update my system via apt-get dist-upgrade. In order to only get secure packages, which lines should be deleted from my sources.list (some commented out lines have already been deleted)? # Security updates for "stable" deb http://security.d

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-24 Thread Moritz Beller
user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure I understand the question. Is it that you want only > security updates? That is, do you wnat ot skip those upgrades that have > no impact on security? Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I only want to use secu

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-25 Thread Moritz Beller
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> * Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: >> > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I >> > only want to use s

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-25 Thread Moritz Beller
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What's wrong with it? > > Nothing's wrong with it: it's what you asked for. You started > out with a sources.list that drew from stable, testing, and unstable, > as well as unofficial repositories, but *didn't* draw from the > security updates. You s

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Moritz Beller
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > Dr Gavin Seddon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine >> and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest >> why this is so anmd how to fix the problem?

Qt cannot be found

2004-02-26 Thread Moritz Beller
Hello! I get, after installing qt3-dev, the following message when trying to compile a kde package: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. The inte

Are there any known problems when using apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-02-19 Thread Moritz Beller
Hello! Since there are some very serious security problems in the Linux kernel of version 2.4 I wanted to update my debian system in order to get the current Linux kernel 2.6. So, by calling apt-get dist-upgrade with root permissions I get the following output: 723 updated, 72 new installed, 8 t

Re: Are there any known problems when using apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-02-19 Thread Moritz Beller
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If stability is your concern, stay with stable. The same security > vulnerabilities that exist in 2.4 also exist in 2.6, so you really > gain nothing in terms of security by simply doing a dist-upgrade. So I'll try that when I've finished those proje

apt-get install kopete

2004-02-21 Thread Moritz Beller
Hello! After doing "apt-get install kopete" I got a message saying that libqt3-mt-dev depended on libxcursor-dev and I should try "apt-get install -f" which I did and what resulted in trying to install libxcursor-dev. Unfortunately this didn't work, printing out something like: Unpacking libxcurs

apt-get install leads to much trouble

2004-02-21 Thread Moritz Beller
Hello! After doing "apt-get install kopete" I got a message saying that libqt3-mt-dev depended on libxcursor-dev and I should try "apt-get install -f" which I did and what resulted in trying to install libxcursor-dev. Unfortunately this didn't work, printing out something like: Unpacking libxcurs

Re: apt-get install leads to much trouble

2004-02-21 Thread Moritz Beller
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A simple deinstallation of libxcursor-dev followed by a reinstall of > xlibs-dev should do the trick. The thing is that by typing apt-get remove libxcursor-dev (which should remove it, shouldn't it?) I get: package libxcursor-dev is not installed, and i

Re: apt-get install leads to much trouble

2004-02-22 Thread Moritz Beller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Enrico Zini) writes: >> Isn't there any possibility of getting my apt-get work again? >> Thanks for all of you who have any clue and tell me. > > I can't recall the precise details, however I solved this issue by > removing libxcursor-dev and xlibs-dev, including depending packa