broke system

[bmike101 at cox.net]

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 at consultpros.com>
> Date: 2006/02/08 Wed PM 04:56:09 PST
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Re: broke system
> 
> bmike101 at 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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