On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:52 pm, David Rasch wrote: > For starters, dselect is evil. It's a user interface nightmare.
So far, I just search for a package name in the dselect package list, select to add it, decide whether or not to install the packages it recommends, and install. > Aptitude is much better, but both are clunky and hard to understand (in > my opinion). Thanks. I'll take a look. > If you want to get pissed and frustrated with debian, > continue using dselect. On the other hand if you just want to install a > package, like xpdf, just run "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get > install xpdf". Thanks. dselect is kind of useful to me now just to browse through some of the packages that are available. > You can get information that dselect provides, like > descriptions, by typing "apt-cache show xpdf" and you can also search > for a package with "apt-cache search <string>". Finally, you can debug > what version of a package are available with "apt-cache policy > xpdf". Your next best friend is http://packages.debian.org Again, thanks. I was pretty good at RPM queries. Now I get to learn a whole new package system. :-) > I haven't run into this problem, but KDE 3.3 just went into Sarge last > night and it wouldn't be unheard of for a bug like this to sneak in > (check http://bugs.debian.org/kmail). At the same time, I would try > "apt-get --reinstall kmail" and if you can remove it and reinstall it > ("apt-get remove kmail" and "apt-get install kmail). Note: I haven't > checked the dependencies to see if this will work or not. Some digging around online turned up kdepim-kio-plugins. Installing that solved the problem. I don't think that I had this package when kmail was working earlier, so perhaps the package just got split out as part of KDE 3.3. After installing that package, I am now able to access an IMAP over SLL again. ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
