Robert Citek wrote:
On Tuesday, Dec 28, 2004, at 11:57 US/Central, Bob Therina wrote:
Is this behavior of installing a package while destroying another a common problem or a fluke?
This should be a fluke. Unless it is a known issue with libranet 2.8.1. My strategy for installing Libranet (as it is with most distros) is to install the bare minimum and then agt-get the rest. That way you are more likely to have the latest packages with the correct dependencies.
Is there a way to back up the system?
Yes, there are a number of ways, everything from doing a complete disk image to taring up just files. My preference is to use Knoppix and dd:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Backup-Restore_Windows
The instructions describe doing it for a Windows system, but were adapted from doing this under Linux.
Do the names of downloadable applications show up anywhere after apt-get update?
By default apt downloads packages into /var/cache/apt/archives . This allows you to save the packages to another drive (e.g. external USB2/FW, NFS, Samba, etc.) and then use them to update another machine without having to download the packages again.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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Thanks for the info Robert.
Bob
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