Wow, I'm so impressed with the way you have handled my questions. Not a hint of get off your a@# and figure it out yourself. Especially in an area like this which draws programmers and the like who are expected to have a lot of understanding before they ask the same old question over and over again. I'm am a programmer and have worked with openSuse a couple of years off and on as well as Mac's and Pc's. I'm now trying to learn about the Debian flavor of this distro and it is sometimes confusing to move one day from each platform to another. There are so many minute differences to keep track of.
All to say, thanks for your kindness. I'm by no means an expert on Ubuntu Server, but I have a copy of the full desktop on a different logical drive which was added to the original Server kernel so I can play with the server only version as well as jump into the desktop to do things I can't get it to do in the server version. In trying to fix my original issue, I did a package upgrade using the Synaptic Package Manager after adding the proposed repository to the soruces.list file. As was my first post after changing the interfaces file, it still did not work leading me to believe i got the wrong package. I then went to a command line and if I remember clearly, used apt-get remove to delete the whole package and then re-installed it with apt-get install. Then it worked fine. Hopefully this will be of some help to you if similar problem show up elsewhere. Although I suspect it was just my inexperience with Ubuntu. One more question which would really help in my understanding of how these package managers work in the background. In a case like what I was doing here (trying to download a single package from a test repository) I expected to only have one file downloaded but got at least 7 others which when looking at the change log on a few of them I found they were also from the proposed repository. In Synaptic and/or the command line does it actually download all of these files or are just references put into a database and then a package is only downloaded when you actually install it? I found some option in Synaptic giving you a choice how to handle something like this but when it comes to using only the command line, I know there has to be a way to download only one package and not have any others installed accidentally when using apt-get update and then followed by apt-get upgrade. The answer is probably quite involved, so rather than having you write a book, it would be ok to just point me to some docs or link on the internals. The programmer in me just loves to know what is going on in the internals. Which at least for me it gives me an edge when real issues come up and I have to step through then logically to come up with a solution. Plus it's just plan fun to know!!! One last comment, do you frequent the forums? I need to move my questions out of here and start posting them there where they should be..... Thanks, Jim Taitt Huntington Beach, Ca. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714904 Title: /etc/network/if-up.d/ifenslave is missing (installed under if-pre- up.d) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifenslave-2.6/+bug/714904/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
