Learn one distribution and one toolchain :) don't switch them every two days ... when you are comfortable with at least one major distro, then you can go try out others.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Thank you, Icebreaker. But is that all? > So far, I only have a half system. > There are obviously more programs I can't install with synaptic. > For example, I need the plugin for Java applets in my browsers. I > opened a web page with containing an applet and the opportunity to > download the plugin was shown to me. But when I download the rpm file, > debian doesn't now what to do with it. (My old Fedora was much more > intelligent.) I asked synaptic to install rpm (and yum), but debian > still doesn't know what to do. (Allright, there is the shell command > for rpm, but I don't want to do that for every following program.) I > gave up and installed the other alternative for the plugin > installation: the bin file. But again, debian doesn't know what to do > with it. Stupid computer. > At this stage, I consider another attempt to install (K)ubuntu again, > which I was running for some days. But with KDE 4.1 things only looked > nice for a while and I ran into problems. So I thought I try a stable > and solid debian. And now this... I am pretty lost. > > On 26 nov, 10:54, Icebreaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not a good practice. You either use Debian and the Debian > > Repositories or Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Repos. > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:42 AM, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yesterday I finally managed to install the latest debian version on my > > > workstation. But now I need to add some programs that are not listed > > > in synaptic, but which I can find e.g. onhttp://packages.ubuntu.com > > > (hardy or intrepid). So I tried to add some ubuntu repositories to > > > the /ect/apt/sources.list by attaching lines like > > > debhttp://archive.ubuntucom/ubuntuhardy universe multiverse > > > etc. But when I start synaptic again, it complains and I have to > > > remove the new lines again to let it start properly again. What do I > > > need to do? > > > -- Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
