Wait a minute... Isn't that how you get past newbie status? You make a thousand expensive mistakes and spend thousands of hours trying to recover from them, interfering with your work, your sleep, your marriage..., until one day you have accidentally absorbed enough knowledge -- or enough hard knocks -- that you begin to recognize connections and causes and effects? That's not the normal, approved approach? You mean I've been doing it wrong all this time? :-) /kevin On Friday 08 November 2002 07:57, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 08 November 2002 13.53, Fancher, Mark (GEAE) wrote:
Last night, I installed APT. I followed the instructions for a client installation, which included:
apt-get update
apt-get check
"This will make sure that you have no unresolved dependencies between installed packages. If it complains, that this is not the case, try:" (it did)
apt-get -f install
After I did this, I saw a whole bunch of files deleting before my eyes..
KDE didn't work anymore. I couldn't even open a shell. Nothing worked but my mouse.
Went to the SuSE database, and found the instructions to delete Lilo and uninstall Linux. There're both gone now.
If Richard Bos doesn't stop advocating alpha-grade software for use by newbies I'm going to get seriously pissed off
-- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)