RE: Gnome for redhat 9

["Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>]

Thank you so much for your help. I executed the fix on the sources.list.
And right now, I am running the apt-get update, and upgrades. Thank you
again for explaining something so simple.

You take care, and I'll right back if I have problems with gnome
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of White, Matt
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:32 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: Gnome for redhat 9


The best fix for this problem is to learn something like vi; here are a
few tips.

To open a file for editing, type

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

obviously substituting the appropriate path for this file.

Next, press escape so you are in the right mode.  You can use your arrow
keys to navigate around the vi screen.

If you want to insert text where the cursor is, press i and type what
you want.  Press escape when done so you get out of edit mode.

To delete a character at the cursor position, press x.

This should give you enough to edit a basic file.  Press escape when
done and type

:wq

and press enter to write the file and then quit.

The vi man page has a basic overview of commands that are useful several
pages down.  The commands are a bit odd but once you are used to them,
it becomes second nature.

Matt

<quote who="Sina Bahram">
> Ok, I did that, but now I have a few problems. I got apt4rpm. I ran 
> apt-get and upgraded the packages, and installed all the latest stuff 
> it had to offer. However when I type
>
> apt-get install gnome
>
> I get an error saying that while gnome was found in the database it 
> can not be installed. Now I read another message on here about 
> changing a line in my sources.list file, but this is a little 
> difficult for me to do because of my unfamiliarity with text editers 
> like VI. I tried ftping the file to an ftp I have access too, then 
> downloading it onto my windows box, changing the appropriate line, and

> then uploading it back; however, as expected the file didn't work when

> I tried
>
> apt-get install gnome
>
> It said some error on a line, which I gathered to simply be a 
> difference in line breaks or any other linux/windows incompatibility. 
> So is there anyway I can get this sources.list file, from an ftp, 
> since I can use ftp when I ssh into the box I'm trying to install 
> gnome on.
>
> Sorry if this is unclear, and I am extremely fustraited at myself, 
> since if I had to do something like this in windows, it would take me 
> the all of three seconds or less *sigh*. But I'm willing to do 
> whatever, so please let me know.
>
> Thanks again,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Ryan Mann
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: RE: Gnome for redhat 9
>
>
> Yu can go to www.freshrpms.net to download apt4rpm.  After you install

> apt4rpm you will have apt-get.
>
>
>
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