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Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question



On 26/10/99 Eric G . Miller wrote:

Am wondering were you got the binaries from? Are they debs (*.deb) or
are they tarballs (*.tar.gz, or *.tgz, or just *.tar)?

right, don't install tarballs or do make install for things that are managed by dpkg, I buddy of mine new to debian tried updating XFree by make install and dpkg did not take well to that, his system ended up in a state of ruination...



Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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