[H-GEN] Admin bounce for Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>

[Rob Unsworth]

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Why would you bounce mail that contain the letters u,n and s when I am
subscribed as rob at unsworth.net.

curious

Rob Unsworth



On 5 Apr 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and  ]
> [ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.           ]
> [ Worthwhile understanding: http://www.humbug.org.au/netiquette.html ]
> 
> Anthony's message bounced because it mentioned the not-stable version
> of Debian; this word contains the letters u, n, and s (and it was used
> too soon in the message).  I'm forwarding it here (slightly edited to
> get past the mailing list software); all replies should go to the
> right place, so on and so forth.
> 
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:00:44 +1000
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] newbie setting up Debian
> Message-ID: <20010405180044.C23488 at azure.humbug.org.au>
> From: Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>
> 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:27:00PM +1000, Mark Venz wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Sandra Milne wrote:
> > > try running tasksel and selecting everything that mentions gnome.
> > I have now tried this and I get the following:
> > a311_8359:~# tasksel
> > E: Package task-doc has no installation candidate
> 
> task-doc is available in both testing and *nstable, so you appear to be
> pointing tasksel (which is based on /var/lib/dpkg/available, which is
> updated with dselect) at woody/sid (testing/*nstable), but apt-get at
> stable (or perhaps nothing).
> 
> Try
> 	# dselect update
> and see if that changes either what tasksel thinks is available, or what
> apt-get thinks is.
> 
> > How many choices should there be? I have only 39.
> 
> "only"
> 
> If you want more choices, try either:
> 	# apt-get install console-apt; console-apt
> or
> 	# dselect
> 
> You'll need to spend some time learning how they work to get any benefit
> from them though.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> 


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