broke system

[Eric "Shubes"]

Hey Mikey,

Have you tried Ubuntu yet? Maybe it's time to give it a try. The 
Synaptec (sp?) package manager really simplifies the whole apt thing.
Ubuntu is Debian based too, and seems to work with lots of hardware. 
There's a Live-CD version too.

bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> 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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