wicd for Intrepid and Hardy

[scott]

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Emil Payne wrote:
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> 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
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> 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 mem =P
> 
> Emil
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I think NoOp said it best:

Go to the sourceforge.com page and add the wicd repository and then do a
 sudo aptitude update,   sudo aptitude install wicd.

Aptitude is better at doing it's thing,IMHO, then apt-get as far as
dependencies are involved.

Scott
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