Wcid Program problems

[Shannon McMackin]

On 05/26/2009 05:18 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Shannon McMackin wrote:
>> On 05/26/2009 10:34 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 05:33:40 -0600
>>>> "Karl F. Larsen"<klarsen1 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Steven Susbauer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       They have all been riped apart and carry no good information
>>>>>>> for a new user. The problem is a person with false information can
>>>>>>> put it there and erase the good stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Karl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Installing from the website directly from the .deb is not
>>>>>> suggested. You will not receive any updates to the software unless
>>>>>> you go to the website yourself and get the new version (which a
>>>>>> user is not likely to do if they have a working program). When not
>>>>>> using Jaunty a user should set up the wicd repository so their
>>>>>> software is kept up to date.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no false information on there, only a *smart* way of
>>>>>> setting up the program.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>       The Hardy and 8.10 idea of adding a new repository and key
>>>>> doesn't work. I tried it twice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> One try, worked just exactly as advertised.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>       The IMPORTANT part is you need to leave the panel you just put the
>>> repository line into open when you in a terminal do the key thing. If
>>> you close the panel the key will not work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Actually, the panel works great when you download the key contents into
>> a text file and import that file into your software sources applet.
>> That's how I've been doing it since Feisty and it works fine.
>>
>>
>>
>      That is fine. But why introduce another step into an already odd way
> to do things?
>
>
> Karl
>
>
I would suppose that it's only odd if you've always been doing it 
another way.  That's always the way I've done it since I started using 
Ubuntu.

I only use apt-get if I don't want to take the time to fire up synaptic.