Mike Leone on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:05:19 -0500


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[PLUG] Re: Help needed in reviving semi-hosed system


Doug Riddle (doug_riddle@yahoo.com) had this to say on 11/16/02 at 19:31: 
 
> 2.7 is only available via download for now, but will soon be
> available in public libraries in some parishes in Louisiana.  I am
> supposed to deliver the first batches next week.

Being in Philadelhia, your library copies won't help me too much, I'm
afraid. :-) 

But congrats on getting them out to the public!

> Will ap-get run?  

Yes.

> If so, try deselecting packges until you get a
> stable non-gui platform, then apt-get the desktops.

Remove ... what? All of KDE? GNOME? The part that worries me are the errors
that show up on a resierfsck. Is there a "meta-KDE" package? Something like
"apt-get remove kde", and it takes it all out?

Unfortunately, I doubt that will work, since some of the QT libs are on the
bad partition, and can't be accessed. Even to be removed.

I'll retry the reiserfsck, until no more errors show. Then maybe I can
remove the GUIs, and reinstall.

> I have played with unstable in the past, but testing is as far out on
> a limb as I go these days.

Dangerous, I am. :-)

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