Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/14/03

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    Mark Healey wrote:
    > Got the networking going. WooHoo.

    Excellent.

    > Now I'm going to spend some time watching cartoons and if a few days
    > start asking a bunch of questions to try to get my X working.

    Or you could let the downloading occur while you're watching cartoons.

    Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the repository from which you
    wish to install. Here's mine:

    > # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
    > # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
    > # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
    > #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    > #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
    > #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
    >
    > # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
    > #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    > #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
    >
    > # UnStable
    > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
    >
    > # Stable
    > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
    > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
    > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
    >

    This gives me a sid box (unstable), with security patches that are
    backported to stable, along with any packages in stable that for one
    reason or another are not available in unstable.

    > One minor question set.
    >
    > 1) The backspace key doesn't work in vi. Is this some kind of
    > terminal settings problem or an nvi problem (I'm used to vim). Is
    > there a debian package for vim? Can I just install it without
    > removing nvi without confusing anything?

    Sorry; I avoid vi as much as I can, and therefore know little about it. 

    -- 
Kent
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