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mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,14:26

In the desktop menu, there should be a few items of particular interest to you. One is "enable apt", which will install the dsl-dpkg myDSL extension and (i think) restore the dpkg data that was stripped from DSL.

Another item is "Synaptic", which will run Synaptic if you already have it installed. If you don't, it will enable apt as above and then use dpkg (or apt-get, to be specific) to install Synaptic from a Debian repository.

A third item of interest is "upgrade to gnu-utils", which installs the gnu-utils myDSL extension, overwriting many of the Busybox tools that come with DSL. I don't think this is absolutely necessary, but it apparently is needed to install certain deb packages.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Martin1mest Offline

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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,15:40

In instllation synaptyc y get sutch error
""
Calling the dpkg restore script...
Downgrading apt back to version 0.5.4...
Connecting to ftp.debian.org 128.101.240.212 : 80
wget: server returned error 404: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
touch: /var/tmp/synfailt: No such file or directory
An error occured while trying to get apt downgrade
press return to continue...
""
Server not anymore avalibe ?

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Ok y founded from ftp://ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu/pub....net
synaptic.dsl and installed it.
Thanks

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Posted: Jan. 06 2007,04:15

Im having the same problem. So I had to modify the /etc/apt/source.list. Now apt-get and synaptic works,but there is a problem. synaptic is missing some apps. I do alot of experimentations to the system most people would'nt do. So naturally I tend to toast DSL from time to time. Usually when this happens I just do a clean install. Then I upgrade to GNU utils,enable apt, and hit synaptic in the tools menu. Then the first thing I download is sndconfig,but this time that did not happen. I also got the 404 and other errors,but did a search and someone mention the editing /etc/apt/source.list with beaver to remove oldstable and replace it with stable.That solves most of the problems.Does anyone know if its a server problem or a config problem?

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