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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