On Sunday 04 Nov 2007, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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> >
> > Point a browser at:
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/etch/rsync
> >
> > Follow the link for your architecture at the bottom, that will take you
> > to a page reminding you to use aptitude or synaptic and then save the deb
> > file. Install with sudo dpkg -i rsync-foo-bar-baz.deb (or what ever it's
> > called.
> >
> > Your other problems are not related to rsync, but something else is
> > misaligned somewhere...
>
> Thanks for the reply, Adam.  Much appreciated.
Good.
> But I am at a loss to knoiw what to do.  *see below.  Iceweasel is clearly
> broken - but I can't think what to do about it.  It won't uninstall and it
> won't let me ignore it.  :-(
>
> All I can do is wait a day or two and hope that the next update or two will
> fix it.  And Etch is supposed to be stable. :-(
On my stable Etch boxes Iceweasel works fine on them. They are running on KDE 
desktops and they don't have the Acrobat Reader installed. I'll have a look 
what I have tomorrow, but it really does work, or else I'd have had 
complaints by now!
> Meanwhile, I may try your tip for rsync.  I have done it for webmin and am
> still alive!
It's a start.
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