-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You will probably want to run sudo apt-get update first, so that the database of packages on your computer is up to date. Then run sudo apt-get upgrade.
If that does not clear all errors then try sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. The short explanation is that the last command is used if your install is quite old. Cheers, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello all, > > I did a man apt-get and found that there was an option called apt-get > upgrade, so I decided to try apt-get upgrade. > > Since I did not know what would happen, I was afraid I might mess up my > system, but I decided to try it any way. > > I found that I needed to run as root, so I su'd to root and ran apt-get > upgrade, and to my surprise, it seemed to work. > > After running for a while ( I decided to leave the computer running on > apt-get upgrade) there were some error messages, but nothing serious > seemed to go wrong, so I decided to try out some things that might have > worked better if something worked. > > I tried the command aspell -c agenda20060513 which I did with tab > completion, until I got the full file name, and still got the same error > message that there were no word lists for us . > > So apparently apt-get upgrade did not break my system nor did it seem to > do anything positive for my system. > > I still want to get a binary stand alone program to spell check files > created under the vim editor and would also like to configure the vim > editor to keep the name of the file on the top of the screen when > editing a file within the screen which I used to be able to do at one > time. But now whenever I do a vi <filename> and then i for insert, the > file name completely disappears. > > Do any of you have suggestions as to how to download and install > aspell.bin and how to configure vim editor to keep the file name visible > on part of the screen? I did manage to configure the vim editor to line > wrap successfully. If I can do the other two items I would have the vim > editor fully configured for my purposes. > > Even with the vim editor as it is now I can edit .c files and can check > the c programs thus created and check their syntax and get simple c > programs working. And the vim editor does this by color coding the > characters on the screen in an intelligible way which gives me clues as > to what to do to edit the programs to make them work. And I can use the > first book on c programming that I got from my cousin to do the rest. > > regards, > > Michael Walters > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEZYPbwRXgH3rKGfMRAjpJAJ4pWArlW4w5MspjdzlQXn2BlWjvDwCcDH7d kPVuquke8AUiOBN4jkvwUXY= =Tmt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
