[Bradford] Linux Help Please!

[Alice Kaerast]

dpkg -i /mnt/cdrom/whatever/apt-*.deb

Or similar should do it, you may need to do that for gpg first. Every few
months somebody at work manages to do the Redhat equivalent. They should
make it harder to uninstall such key packages in my opinion.

Regards
Alice
 On 6 Jan 2014 08:25, "David Bolton" <david at nucleon.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks again.
>
> Haven't been able to do any more tonight (was packing for an overnight
> work trip tomorrow, so won't be able to do any more until late Tuesday)
>
> I actually tried setting up a partition when I initially set up the
> machine - but unfamiliarity with Linux install meant I ended up with one
> big lump! ;-) I'd always back up to external drives, anyway.   I'm still a
> newbie when it comes to messing around with the OS - although I'm familiar
> with unix file and directory naming from the days when I used to use
> engineering software on workstations running hp-ux and solaris....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 05/01/14 23:30, Brian A wrote:
>
>> If you are able to install it, you could use 'Synaptic Package Manager'.
>> That is what we all had to use in the earlier days before Ubuntu created
>> the 'Software Centre', I still use it sometimes when I'm doing something
>> that's not so straight forward. Synaptic, being a GUI,  does give you a
>> good idea what packages are available and you can do 'reinstalls' as well
>> as adding & removing software and repairing broken packages. The name of
>> 'Synaptic' is 'synaptic-pkexec' and, once installed, resides in /usr/bin/.
>>
>> Mint does use the Ubuntu repositories, as well as its own, but, as you
>> say, there is the Mint Debian edition. I think that is an insurance policy
>> lest they find it difficult to use Ubuntu at some time in the future. Atm
>> Canonical aren't happy about them using Ubuntu binaries for things like the
>> 'Mint Box'.
>>
>> Just remember, next time you do an install,  not go for the easy install,
>> but to put your Home directory, at least, on a separate partition - this
>> can all be taken care of during the install. Also, a swap partition at
>> least the size of RAM on your machine. If you do that you won't have all
>> this backing up to do as you'll just keep your home directory when you do
>> an reinstall.
>>
>> I don't know how much you know about the configuration files etc. but
>> there are what I call 'dot' directories in your home directory. You can see
>> them in the terminal by typing 'ls -la' or by typing 'Ctrl H' in the Mint's
>> Nemo file manager (fork of Nautilus). The directory names are preceded by a
>> '.' .If you backup these files you can return them to a new install and
>> have all your application preferences restored.
>>
>> Hopefully, that gives you a bit to go on with.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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