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Re: [linguasos] Re: What's wrong with Synaptic?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:06 AM, mvrieling <mvrieling@...> wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> I managed to update/upgrade all the necessary stuff with the terminal.
> I have also changed the options in Synaptic you recommended and
> everything is working :-)
>
> Thanks alot!
>
>
> Marco

Ha!
I knew it.
I'm getting good at this stuff...
I'm really learning a lot of this stuff as I go, to tell the truth.

Glad that worked out.

:)
tony

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Hi, My confidence in Linux is hanging by a thread and only my drive to get rid of Windows is keeping it alive. What's wrong? Have tried several times for the...
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... What distro are you using? Did you run synaptic as root/sudo? We need more information... kthnxbye tony -- http://www.BaldwinLinguas.com translation and...
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM, baldwin linguas ... Actually, I would suggest you open a terminal and do $ su Password: # apt-get update (stuff........) #...
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Hi, thanks for your quick answer My distro is 1.5.8-3pclos2007 And these are the error messages while trying to install KDE W: Failed to fetch ...
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... Doh...like I had to ask... You're on the LinguasOS list. This does happen from time to time with the PCLos repos, especially the freebsd servers. I don't...
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While launching via terminal, it downloads some packages, but in many cases the following message appears: Err http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org 2007 release Cannot...
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... That's why I recommended removing the freebsd repos from the list. The ibiblio repos, really, should suffice, and, perhaps, the pclinuxos.com repos. Too...
Anthony Baldwin
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Hi Anthony, I managed to update/upgrade all the necessary stuff with the terminal. I have also changed the options in Synaptic you recommended and everything...
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... Ha! I knew it. I'm getting good at this stuff... I'm really learning a lot of this stuff as I go, to tell the truth. Glad that worked out. ... tony -- ...
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