Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

["Martin Waller" <polytope_@hotmail.com>]

Unfortunately, the computers in question are behind a web proxy which 
requires manually logging on, so that http access method of apt won't 
work....

are we unstuck?

Martin


> From: "Robb Kidd" <rkidd@ncmec.org>
> To: Martin Waller <polytope_@hotmail.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:00:18 -0400
>
> Martin Waller wrote:
>
> > I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome 
> helix
> > running under potato.
> >
> > Can it be done (without resorting to woody)?
> > How?
>
>     I did a little Woodage for the Helix-GNOME install.  I'm still mostly 
> Potato.
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1)  Change the stable to unstable lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and add 
> "deb
> http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main" to 
> it.
> 2)  apt-get update
> 3)  apt-get install task-helix-gnome
> 4)  Change the unstable lines in sources.list back to stable. (Except for 
> the
> helixcode entry.)

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