apt-get update

[David J Patrick]

On 8/28/06, Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
>
> it takes him an hour to do the update and would take equally
> long to try to install even a small program.  When he did the update last
> time and it apparently disappeared, he did it again the next day.  It took
> an
> hour again, I would have thought there were very few things to change and
> would take just minutes.



have you considered mailing him a debian DVD ?
packed with goodness, it is !
(we have it local, if you need a copy.. that'll be $9 please)
djp

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