[Cialug] New desktop ?

[Paul Gray]

Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have gotten my self in trouble trying to
>>> do things the redhat way on a Ubuntu machine before, and it took me a
>>> few weeks to find out what I was doing wrong. (Apparently you are not
>>> supposed to use apt-get from the CLI anymore -- it breaks things.
>> huh? since when? If this were true then people using ubuntu server
>> would be in serious trouble.
>>
> 
> I use Ubuntu and use apt-get via CLI exclusively. I've never broken a thing.

Two things that work(*) in CLI under Ubuntu desktop, but not server:

dpkg-reconfigure libpam-ldap  (doesn't work)
dpkg-reconfigure libnss-ldap  (ditto)


(*) My definition of "work" is two-fold here: "work" as in "the Debian way" and
"work" as in functionally does what it's supposed to do.

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