wicd for Intrepid and Hardy

[Emil Payne]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I was surprised that wicd is not available on Intrepid and Hardy 
> from the normal repositories like it is on Jaunty.
>
>     So I went to sourceforge and found wicd and there I found the 
> package wicd_1.5.9-all.deb and I d/l that and found I had to remove 
> network-manager before the deb loader would work.
>
>     Google got me karl at cheap-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove 
> network-manager network-manager-gnome. This then allowed the deb loader 
> to load wicd and now it is my Internet WiFi software. It is so automatic 
> I need to do nothing more to get WiFi and no keyrings to mess with :-)
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>   

I'm not sure what happened, but I used Synaptic to install wicd and it 
automatically removed Network Manager. The problem is that it removed 
Network Manager and THEN found out there was a dependency error and 
quit. So I was without anything and couldn't get to the Internet. I had 
to use the windows machine and download wicd to an SD card and then load 
it into the Ubuntu machine and install it that way to get everything 
back. Shouldn't it have noticed the dependency error before removing 
Network Manager?

Jaunty on a Dell P4 with 384K memory =P

Emil


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