On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:17 pm, Mike kindly wrote:
> PCLinuxOS? I fear change, but I will try it. Does apt-get work or do you
> have to use the GUI front-end?
>
There's absolutely nothing to be afraid of, because it's a live-cd. You can
try it without installing it. If you decide to install it, you'll find it has
the easiest installer you've ever used.
Here's information about PCLOS, with links to their homepage and user help
forums:
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03062#0
I don't know about using apt-get from commandline, since I haven't tried it. I
CAN tell you that Synaptic works great. It is NOT a Debian derivative. It was
originally based on Mandrake but has become it's own distro with it's own
repository of packages. The developers have worked hard to make it a very
stable distribution. Check out their help forums- they're excellent. This is
without a doubt the most usable, polished, distro I've ever used. It all just
works.
Siri Amrit
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> 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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