On 20 Feb 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Suggestion: wipe your install, install a base system, add packages > a > few at a time, and get used to your system. You'll have a much > better > understanding, and a much more stable system, this way.
I'm a Linux fairly-newbie, and your advice surprises me. My conclusion thus far with a little experience with Red Hat, Corel Linux, and Debian is that the only road to happiness in Linux is to install every blasted library you can think of, and then maybe you can start to install new stuff without dependencies stopping your every effort. But maybe with apt-get that isn't necessary, although my few attempts to use that system have not been very successful. I do the apt-get update and then apt-get install [package], and then it proceeds to tell me why it didn't do what I asked it to. OTOH, my only experience with real Debian has been with the CD that came with the Learning Debian book, and I'm not sure that CD is OK. I mean, what kind of Linux distro would come without ppp support... and in spite of following all kinds of guru advice, I was never able to get that system online. When potato becomes stable (or however you say that), I'm going to give Debian another look, and I hope apt-get will actually do for me what it does for others: not only install the requested packages, but also fetch any dependencies. -- Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA ---- Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux