On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:37:16PM +0000, raoul duke wrote:
> > > sounds like your installation is completely messed up. just backup and
> > > reinstall.
> >
> > Hey, hang on there. There's three packages broken. Reinstall is hardly
> > called for yet.
>> it depends, if darragh wants to spend the next hour or so banging his head
> against a brick wall and then reinstall or spend the next hour or so
> reinstalling and configuring everything and then watching the simspons,
> it's his call i suppose.
I think you're setting yourself a bad precedent if you give up on a
problem and reinstall. In my expreience you learn the most from fixing
things rather than working around them. Dont get me wrong, I installed,
broke, and then reinstalled linux many times back in the day, but its
not something I find myself doing now. At worst, I boot from knoppix and
chroot myself into a borked install, there's very little cant be fixed
that way.
Anyways, once he gets it fixed he can install bittorrent, download
simpsons from suprnova and watch it at his leisure ;)
--
Pete
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