PCLinuxOS? I fear change, but I will try it. Does apt-get work or do you have 
to use the GUI front-end?

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:06 pm, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 02:39 pm, Mike kindly wrote:
> > the broken repositories isn't my fault <?>. It is (as I've read) going
> > through a period of instability.
> > Or is my understanding of that skewed?
>
> I don't know if this is relevant to your problem, but the older versions of
> Mepis, possibly the one you're still using, had big, ugly problems with
> updating/upgrading its' packages. I tried updating it once and everything
> broke. IIRC, there were one or two packages or libraries that had to be
> excluded from the system update or else everything would break. I'm sorry I
> can't be more specific, but it was a long time ago. I'm sure if you went to
> the Mepis User forum you could find out about it.
>
> You've had so many problems with this, here's what I suggest:
>
> Get a recent version of Mepis, or my preference, PCLinuxOS. Buy a preburned
> disk or get someone in PLUG to burn you one and test it. I get my disks for
> 99 cents plus shipping from www.edmunds-enterprises.com . I've heard that
> the recent version of Mepis is buggy, but the PCLinuxOS I'm using has been
> rock stable and the repositories work great. It uses Synaptic.
>
> Boot from the live-cd, find your /home on the harddrive, copy anything you
> need to save to a disk or send it to gmail or somewhere for safekeeping.
> Use cfdisk or some good partitioning program to reformat your harddrive and
> make new partitions. You could also use badblocks from the live-cd to
> overwrite your harddrive and make it like new, then partition it.
>
> I much prefer PClinuxOS's partitioning and installation to Mepis', but it's
> your choice. Just start anew and get a clean installation with up-to-date
> packages and repositories.
>
> Siri Amrit

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