Gnugpg

[C Hamel]

On Wednesday 2006 February 01 06:31, Peter Garrett wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> That's unfortunate. I have used Warty, Hoary and Breezy and kept them up
> to date with
>
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> without any problems at all. Before that I ran Debian Woody and Sid, using
> the same approach, again without problems.
>
> Perhaps you should trust Ubuntu more than you seem to?

Perhaps I will give it a shot, then...  I do have a recent total backup of the 
root partition, after all. <LOL>  Also, it is more of a Linux deal than an 
Ubuntu deal.  The first couple times I tried updating various SuSE versions, 
for instance, I had to revert to my backup to get back in service.  I tried 
several times on each version and it was always the same answer.  Gentoo, 
ditto ...though at least Gentoo largely worked.  For now, that is my primary 
distro, at least until I get Kubuntu up & operation properly w/all needed 
features.

>
> Not updating means you are vulnerable to security issues, and missing out
> on possible bug fixes. I use only main, universe and multiverse
> repositories, and have had no problems. Third party repositories are of
> course a different matter.
I can appreciate where you are coming from.  I would certainly agree that 
3rd-party stuff could well break things or otherwise gum up the works so I 
shall make certain to disable all 3rd-party stuff in the sources.list.

I *do* have one related question, however:  Does that mean that since I have 
installed some 3rd-party stuff --mplayer, realplayer, OpenOffice v2, Firefox 
1.5, avidemux & audacity-- that I am definitely going to run into problems??

>
> Peter
>
> --
> 'If I ever saw an animated penguin with a speech bubble saying,
> "It looks like you're trying to edit fstab",
> I'd switch to BSD faster than a speeding Gentoo user.'
> -- Paul Hudson
Good tag line! <LOL>
-- 
        ...CH
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