Re: Went Debian: Spanish Xkeyboard and other issues
rcanet@ivia.es wrote:
>-A Spanish Xkeyboard is not provided or installed. Spanish-HOWTO is
>outdated (1996) and not debianized. Is there any utility or
>instructions to install it?
The task-spanish package is probably the best place to start.
>-After instalation was finished, I started to upgrade some packages
>from woody. I've got the 5 unofficial CDs you can get from that
>hungarian server. Run apt-cdrom add (I think it was that) and worked
>nicely. Run apt-cache update (I think) Run apt-get install mozilla and
>worked ok (although installed M14-2 from potato, I thought there was
>something newer in woody).
Note that woody is now the 'testing' distribution, and for various
reasons it's quite a long way behind unstable at the moment. mozilla may
currently be missing.
mozilla M18-3 is in potato now; try pointing apt at the potato archives
on the net as well, as those may be more up-to-date than your CDs.
>My frustation started when I tried to upgrade sawmill,
>task-gnome-desktop and that kind of programs. It always ended
>similarly: apparently many things changed, but old versions still
>remained, or worst: it couldn't be because of dependence problems.
>Resuming my experiment, I tried apt-get dist-upgrade. After several
>errors and a dselect segfault,
(!) Reproducible?
>all ended up in a dependence problems.
Could you give us more detail? Quite often you do have to sort out
dependencies, but in my experience (as a dselect user, at least) it's
usually not that hard. If you have complex dependencies to resolve then
apt-get isn't really the right tool for the job; maybe you could try one
of the apt front-ends like console-apt or aptitude if you're having
problems with dselect.
It might be helpful to know that sawmill has been renamed to sawfish for
trademark reasons, though again I'm not sure if this is in 'testing'
yet.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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