Re: [LUNI] Ach! 701c/Debian problems

From: Michael Knoop (mknoop@uic.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 16:14:35 CST

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    At 01:38 PM 3/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
    >After cheering to myself for getting debian up and running on my 701c, I've
    >realized I've got a few problems...
    >Keep in mind I installed from 17 floppies and filled in the blanks with apt.
    >
    >1. I got a little greedy with my X apps and am new to debian... If I just do
    >an apt-get remove gnome-base (or something) will it remove everything that
    >relies on gnomes libs?(essentially what I want)

    I removed most of the gnome stuff once by using "apt-get remove gnome*".
    Note the * at the end. This removes any package which contains the string
    "gnome" anywhere within its name, such as, gnome-foo or foo-gnome. The
    last time I checked, Xiamian (or whatever Helix became) did not provide ANY
    means for removing GNOME from your system once they got their packages on
    it. The command above was the best I could do.

    <snip>

    >3. /etc/apt/sources.list
    >I can't seem to get the syntax right or there is something blocking me from
    >being able to add new sources to my list.
    >I've tried things like...
    >deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato kde contrib
    >or
    >unstable main
    >or
    >main contrib non-free
    >NOTHING seems to work!

    deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free

    and

    deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ Debian2.2r2/non-US potato main
    contrib

    work for me. Please note the space between "...debian-non-US/" and
    "Debian2.2r2/non-US"

    Mike K.

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