On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:04:10PM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > Read the bottom part to gain a little history as to why I did the following > actions: > > Basically, what happened is I installed GAIM per the instructions at the > bottom. Afterwards, however, I couldn't find even any file or directory > starting with gaim*. If you installed from debian package, gaim should be in /usr/bin/gaim /usr/lib/gaim /usr/share/man/man1/gaim.1.gz > > So, I re-entered the ftp source for testing followed your instructions > again. It went through the same process all over again. So, this time I > didn't remove the ftp source from sources.list and went into dselect. Of > course, there were numerous apps listed that needed to be installed - or so > it felt. So, I let it go. Did you get a complete installation? When I upgraded from potato to testing, I had to rerun dselect Install about 20 times before all packages were finally installed and configured. > > Now, although I am in the bash, I can't figure out for the life of me how to > get KDE to start. /usr/bin/kde2 is symbolic link to script that starts kde. If you are using startx, making the last line in ~/.xsession 'exec kde2' should start KDE. > Also, my PCMCIA card is down. I can't figure out how to get it back up in > order to even undo anything. I don't have a PCMCIA card, so not sure about this. What does /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/messages say about your PCMCIA card when you boot? > > According to debian FAQs on testing, all testing apps are to be easily > removable so you can return to your former set up. But how do I do that? Read man apt_preferences. You should be able to downgrade to potato by setting pin priorities in /etc/apt/preferences. There has been a number of discussions of pin priorities in this list previously. Check the archives for these: http://lists.debian.org/search.html > > HELP! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:curtis@npc-usa.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:00 PM > To: Debian User List > Subject: Re: Messenger (GAIM) > > On Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:14, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > What is the sources structure I need to type in my sources.list file for > > > that? i.e., > > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib > > > > I think you need to point to testing. If you are running stable I would > > personally put the testing sources in your sources.list file and then do > > an apt-get update && apt-get install gaim Then I would remove the > > testing sources and do an apt-get update > > the proper sources.list entry is: > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jerome
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