Debian 5 broken
Hello.
In upgrading my Debian 5 system on this computer, the upgrade (using
Synaptic) hung, so I went to a console session and used shutdown -r now,
as the GUI was no longer usable, and Debian 5 was thus broken.
After several hours of repairs, the system was again bootable, with
gnome having had to be remnoved and reinstalled. Then iceape no longer
worked, so had to be removed, but it cannot now be resinstalled.
I am aware that Debian has eliminated the functionality that has been
iceape, from Debian 5, but somehow, I had managed to be successfully
using it up until this bodgy system upgrade that broke my system.
However, now Debian 5 will no longer install iceape, rendering the
installation mostly useless, as I have been relying on the functionality
of iceape, as Debian used it instead of Seamonkey, and, as Seamonkey on
Ubuntu only ended up being stable with javascript disabled.
Thus, it appears that, without iceape, Debian is no good for accessing
the Internet, so I guess I will have to go back to Ubuntu, or Windows
XP, with Seamonkey, with no javascript.
And, Linux was supposed to be relatively stable and reliable.
Maybe Windows and IE, really are more reliable and stable than Debian.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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