[Cialug] New desktop ?

[Kevin C. Smith]

Paul Gray wrote:
> 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.
> 

That seems extremely odd. It should be the same package never mind
server or desktop edition. dpkg-reconfigure should have worked the same
on both via CLI. Of course, doesn't work here is defined but I still
have not idea what we're talking about.