Re: What's apt-get doing to me?
Has anybody considered making an ISO that just installs the base package
system, and is self-bootable? IT would be tiny, and its what people actually
want when they get the Debian ISOs :P
Rene
On Oct 24, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Peter Hutnick wrote:
>
> > I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to
> > the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the
> > point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of.
>
> You don't have to lie to it, you could have just gone to
> http://www.linuxiso.org/ or use the Debian-approved method yourself.
> Debian is trying to keep people from hammering the iso servers because
> transferring gargantuan files tends to take up great gobs of bandwidth.
>
> > But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable package,
> > AFAIK.
>
> You have to update pretty much every X related package to unstable to do
> that, AFAIK. It's easier just to switch to unstable.
>
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> Baloo
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