Mark Trickett <[email protected]> wrote: > I have chosen to install Debian (6.0) on the fresh desktop PC, and on a > later Acer laptop. I invoked the Evolution backup on this laptop, then > restored on the desktop, never having set up Evolution prior. It now > will not recognise the analog modem ppp connection. I expect to have to > edit config files and get ppp to set up as the default routing, but also > in backing up and restoring Evolution, there are some settings that came > over and are inappropriate, not least the old hostname.
You might wish to consider migrating away from Evolution; apparently it's due to be deprecated and replaced by the Gnome developers anyway, so unless someone takes it over it might be reaching the end of its development road. > > I would appreciate comments and suggestions from others who have made > such a transition as that. I am expecting that the networking was also > where the fault lies with updating Synaptic. I tried to use Google+, > only to be told that the default Iceweasle was not recent enough. I > could have taken the link on the webpage for Firefox, but I would prefer > to have everything logged through apt/synaptic rather than trying to > hand install and then maintain and keep up to date. That is a big part > of why I have chosen Debian, and the administrative tools associated > with Debian. Your best option would be to run debian Testing, I suspect, which is moving closer by the day to a release. That will give you Firefox/Iceweasel 10, and you can get 19.0 from the experimental repository. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
