time setting in debian

[Collins Richey]

On 2/23/06, Dallam Wych <dallam.wyche at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:20:51PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Perhaps someone could tell me a little more about dist-upgrade...
>
> You would use dist-upgrade to upgrade your system from stable to
> testing, or from testing to unstable.

That's what I thought, but I'm not upgrading my system from one level
to another, so it's a mystery why this helped. I'm running Kubuntu
Dapper which is sort of the same as Debian testing, and thus I expect
to encounter a few problems.

>
> > since I've never done anything but 1) install 2) apt-get update 3) apt-get
> > upgrade then repeat 2) and 3) ad infinitum.
>
> Can I ask just for curiosities sake why you prefer apt-get to aptitude
> for installing packages?
>

I presume that aptitude is gui and gnome based? Gnome is not my
favorite desktop. Most of my life I've run xfce or IceWM, and right
now I'm running KDE just to see what the other half is like.

Also, I've heard that it's a really bad idea to mix aptitude and
apt-get, and the two apt-get commands mentioned above are pretty damn
simple, expecially when all I have to do is up arrow in the Konsole
window!

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Collins Richey
      The agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake wondering if there is a dog.