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Re: debian testing install bugs util-linux



On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:36:22AM -0700, Joe wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
>     I am new to Debian, but not new to Linux.  I have an old
> laptop and of course Fedora wont install on it, so I decided to
> try Debian.  I installed the stable release, but did not like
> the fact that it installed with kernel 2.2.20 when 2.6.2 was
> already out (along with the fact that there were a lot of old
> packages).  
> 
>     So I have decided to install the testing release and ran
> into a few bugs, but not sure how to use the Debian bug system
> to search on the items.
> 

Great!

>     So I read the site and it said to mail this list. 
> 
>     1) The first bug I encountered was when it was retrieving
> packages.  It failed to retrieve util-linux for some reason, but
> that did not stop the install.  It just said it could not
> download the file. So I continued. I did try several different

aptitude install reportbug

Description: Reports bugs in the Debian distribution
 reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian
 and derived distributions relatively painless.  Its features include:



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