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Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome



On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> this may only affect the woody dpkg but setting COLLUMS (that looks
> spelled wrong) will adjust this.  

Very nice!  I had no idea.  Thanks.

Oh, it's COLUMNS.  :)

> i think apt has a --force-downgrade.  

[dave@taro dave]$ apt-get --force-downgrade install rep
E: Command line option --force-downgrade is not understood
[dave@taro dave]$ apt-get -v
apt 0.5.3 for linux i386 compiled on Mar  7 2001 19:25:55

...maybe on a newer version?

> ximian packages are not binary compatible with debian's so that is not
> a good idea.  better option is to install the missing packages from
> debian unstable.  use of apt's pinning feature can aid this.  

Okie dokie.  Thanks for the advice.  I'll get on it (I'm still keeping
my theme packages, though).  :)

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David Steinberg                             -o)
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