I was going to do one of the suggestions - namely aptitude-update as super user and when I did a tab completion on apti and then on aptitu and then aptitude I got no tab completion, so it seemed to me that I should try another suggestion and do as super user, namely apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade as I tried apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and that did not work.
But I forgot to do the apt-get update before I did the apt-get dist-upgrade. So I wasted two hours doing an apt-get dist-upgrade only to find that I should have done the apt-get update first. So some time tomorrow I plan on doing an apt-get update first and then do the apt-get dist-upgrade. I do not want to do it tonight as I am almost brain dead now and it would make me overly tired for tomorrow even if I made no mistakes and it worked. So some time tomorrow I plan on doing an apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade . When I put my Knoppix 3.7 disk in I got a read error on the CD drive. So I put it in again and the same think happened. I finally took the Koppix 3.7 disk out and looked at it and found a big scratch on it. So to send this email message I decided to boot into a live Mepis CD and go to web mail to send this message. The live Mepis CD seems to boot somewhat slower than the live Knoppix 3.7. When I get my kanotix system working again I plan to burn a Knoppix 4.0 CD for myself because someone at Memory Express said that they have a Knoppix 4.0 CD which is robust for equipment detecion. I plan on burning two copies of Knoppix 4.0. That way, if one gets damaged, I can use the other one. I will only do an apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade if I have two more hours to spare to execute those commands. At least after the apt-get dist-upgrade which I did tonight, nothing further is broken, and the vim editor is working fine, and Mepis works fine for doing my email in web mail, even if it is a little slow. If anyone has dire warning about doing an apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade I appreciate that warning if it is warranted. Thanks in advance, 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
