Re: Answers needed for these Debian questions

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Apr 2004, Deboo wrote: [snip] What can be done if/when apt-get/aptitude/dpkg are unable to either install nor uninstall a package and that package is in broken state and unless that package is properly installed or removed, no other packages can be installed? This

Re: Answers needed for these Debian questions

2004-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Deboo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d which reads a file (say, ~/download/download.files), which has a newline separated list of files to

Answers needed for these Debian questions

2004-04-19 Thread Deboo
Hi List! I have limited-time net connection and not very high speed one at that. So, am putting all my questions in one or two messages and sending. I hope this won't irritate others and also hope I'll get quite a few replies when I check next, in 24 hours or so. Sorry for putting all these in one