On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 13:33, Patrick McFarland wrote: > On 26-Feb-2003, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Patrick: gpg: BAD signature from "Patrick McFarland (Diablo-D3) <unknown@panax.com>" This is evolution 1.2.2 here. You're using mutt 1.5.3. Yet another mutt/evolution problem? I thought these were finally solved by evolution 1.2.2... > > - 'Did you know that you can report a bug in a package with the > > reportbug command?' > > - 'Did you know that you can use dpkg-reconfigure to change the > > installation setup of a package' > > That is very cool. Now, if I can also get that in console mode, so it appears > in my motd automatically, that would be _very_ cool. Thanks to all suggesting fortune - and this would solve it in console mode, too... Could somebody package these? (I definitely don't have time to start yet another project right now - as this would be my first Debian pkg, it would be a lot more time consuming for me as for others. fortunes-debian would be great, though). -------- Debian Hint #1 You can use the 'reportbug' script to submit a bug report to a Debian package. % Debian Hint #2 With 'dpkg-reconfigure <pkg-name>' you can change the answers you gave to the questions you saw when you fist installed the package. % Debian Hint #3 You can use 'apt-cache search <words>' to search the package descriptions. % Debian Hint #4 'apt-cache policy <pkgnames>' displays the available and installed versions for packages. % Debian Hint #5 Use the 'make-kpkg' script -------- The second is just the one that was - for me - one of the big eye-opener when I started using Debian. We'd need to collect some more to justify a package here - but I think there's a lot trivia knowledge that an experienced Debian user doesn't think about, but can solve a serious problem for a beginner. The plan could be: - collect hints - package, upload - add a conditional call to 'fortune debian' in the default .bash_profile for interactive shells, and add something similar to the default *dm greeters... (I can imagine some difficulties here - a lot of people wouldn't want this, I guess...) So long... -- vbi -- Cohen's Law: There is no bottom to worse.
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