Re: [debian-knoppix] New User Questions
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:55:58PM -0500, Krikket wrote:
> 1> Knoppix is based on Debian. Which branch of Debian is it based on?
Look at /etc/apt/, in particular sources.list. Generally speaking, it is
mostly testing and unstable plus packages from other repositories -- and in
general pretty far from stable.
> Ideally I'd like to keep everything on the "stable" branch, and was more
> than a bit surprised that I needed to use other branches to get gnome
> installed. (I've since reverted my sources.list file to be just the
> stable branch.)
You should then see few upgrades until the current 'testing' becomes
'stable', or hell freezes over, or whatever comes first [ as Debian tends not to be
fast with releases ]
> 2> When I type "ftp <machine name>" from a command prompt, it defaults to
> using lftp. To test some things out, I'd rather use just ftp.
> Uninstalling lftp leaves me without a ftp command, even after I de-install
> and re-install the ftp package. Any ideas on how to get the ftp command
> back?
This is a Debian thingie called 'alternatives'. Look at the files:
root@knoppix [/]# ls -l /usr/bin/ftp /etc/alternatives/ftp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 30 23:44 /etc/alternatives/ftp -> /usr/bin/lftp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 30 23:45 /usr/bin/ftp -> /etc/alternatives/ftp
Several ways to go about it: manually change the preferences among the
possible candidates for /usr/bin/ftp to your preferred one (see 'man
update-alternatives'). Or just call the alternate by its name, e.g. ncftp.
Or remove the lftp package -- 'apt-cache show lftp ftp' shows that lftp is
priority optional whereas ftp is standard so the alternative mechanism
should fall back to ftp. Or, the simplest, define an alias ftp pointing to
whichever you prefer -- as the ftp from the ftp package gets installed as
/usr/bin/netkit-ftp, that would be something like $ echo 'alias
ftp="/usr/bin/netkit-ftp"' >> /etc/profile
> 3> Minor point, but I see that Knoppix likes to use a transparent
> background. (As shown when you click on the K-Menu icon.) Any thoughts
> on how to get this back to a solid background? (It's easy enough to
Pass. For konsole, it's the schema setting. Otherwise, no idea.
> 4> I'd like to have the ability to create VCDs. In theory, k3b has this
Not sure. There are a few DVD ripping HOWTOs, and Debian unstable recently
got 'drip', a Gnome dvd-to-divx converter, but I haven't looked at it, or
tried it.
Hth, Dirk
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