yep.... it updated other things also (lots of other things) and those other things are what broke it........ maybe it isn't broken but just needs to be 'configured to my liking'. > > From: "Alan Dayley" > Date: 2006/02/08 Wed PM 04:56:09 PST > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Subject: Re: broke system > > bmike101@cox.net said: > > stoopid mee! > > I decided to fix what I didn't need to (upgrade really) and now the system > > doesn't work as well. > > > > I ran 'apt-get install kmail' and that made it so it wouldn't > > automatically load 'x' and when I run 'startx' I don't get to choose my wm > > but rather have to know which one I need to run. I think the wm I am > > given when I type 'startx' is 'failsafe'. (but what do I know) To open > > directly into the wm I want would I type 'startx icewm' (for example)? > > OK, installing just kmail should not mess with the loading of x and your > other complaints here. When you ran the apt-get command, did it download > and update other things beyond kmail? > > If it only install kmail, something else is going on here. Linux installs > do not just "mess themselves up" from installing a mail application. > > > I think upgrading kmail was a bad thing! So now I'm doing 'apt-get > > upgrade' in the hopes that will 'fix' it (not that I know what I'm doing). > > OK, it might, I guess. > > > If this doesn't 'fix' it I think I will set it to 'stable' and do a > > 'dist-upgrade'. Does this sound like a good plan? Do you think that after > > what I'm doing currently is done I should try to get it to work the way > > it is because a stable dist-upgrade is a superfluous..... errrrr.... > > extravegant step? > > Debian people could better answer the validity of this course. > > Alan > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss