Re: debian testing install bugs util-linux

From: Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez31_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 04/12/04

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    Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:23:05 -0400
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    On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:36:22AM -0700, Joe wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I am new to Debian, but not new to Linux. I have an old
    > laptop and of course Fedora wont install on it, so I decided to
    > try Debian. I installed the stable release, but did not like
    > the fact that it installed with kernel 2.2.20 when 2.6.2 was
    > already out (along with the fact that there were a lot of old
    > packages).
    >
    > So I have decided to install the testing release and ran
    > into a few bugs, but not sure how to use the Debian bug system
    > to search on the items.
    >

    Great!

    > So I read the site and it said to mail this list.
    >
    > 1) The first bug I encountered was when it was retrieving
    > packages. It failed to retrieve util-linux for some reason, but
    > that did not stop the install. It just said it could not
    > download the file. So I continued. I did try several different

    aptitude install reportbug

    Description: Reports bugs in the Debian distribution
     reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian
     and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include: 

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