On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>> I went to add some packages (abcde, for one) to my laptop, which runs
>> Ubuntu 6.something (how do I check?)
>
> Hi Eben!
>
> I just had that issue myself a second ago. I found that I had the install CDR
> on top of the machine and had written it on the CD with a marker, Mepis 7.
>
> Maybe you did the same thing?
Naah, it's a laptop. I have to schlep it around, so things that can come
off do. Tomorrow I'll poke around in /etc, maybe there's something useful
in there.
I just get pissed at forced obsolescence. I guess now I squeeze some more
life out of it by installing whatever I need from source. Is there at least
a way of .deb-izing some program's source so it can keep track of the files
and maybe remove them later? It probably wouldn't have all the dependencies
unless I can find a handy-dandy database of them, but something's better
than nothing.
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