Re: Re: broke system

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" <alandd@consultpros.com>
> Date: 2006/02/08 Wed PM 04:56:09 PST
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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
>
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