Re: [Sheflug] Debian Etch Stable

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Lesley
> 
> Looks like I got lucky with this.  A few days ago another kernel 
> update came along and the whole thing fixed itself and (wonder of 
> wonders) the Nvidia drivers started to work on my desktop for the 
> first time in twelve months.  I can use Google Earth at last !
> 
> However, looking through /var/lib/apt/lists I see that part way down 
> there is a strange anomaly which says "lock partial".  Does anyone 
> know if this is supposed to be here ?  If not how do I get rid of 
> it ?  Contents of /var/lib/apt/lists below....
> 

Fairly normal looking directory:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2007-11-11 14:03 partial

which appears to be empty and updated every 'apt-get update'.  I suspect 
it's where the downloads go while they are being downloaded - apt-get 
will resume rather than restart a download.

Talking of nVidia - GIMP 2.2.13 is abysmal on my system (Quadro4 900 XGL 
with LG LCD monitor) to the extent it is unusable for anything other 
than basic photo editing.

Any suggestions on how to improve things?

And is there a stable Gimp 2.4 out there yet?

Regards

L>



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