RE: Newbie Questions
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The
system is going to update about every package on your machine.
I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around
upgrading.
What error is apt giving you?
For sound, I would check the How-tos or the archive. It can get involved...
Bb
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Neal [mailto:bneal@ia.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Newbie Questions
Hi all,
I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install
working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions
of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out
apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome.
Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't
work. When I look at it's properties I see "gnome-help-browser"
however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine.
Where do I get this?
Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment.
I added unstable to my sources.list file and did
apt-get update
apt-get install enlightenment
It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks
suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as
an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during
the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This
didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest
enlightenment?
Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux
FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This
sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific
Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first?
Thanks very much!!!
Brian
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