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In the d-i preseed file, the string can be used to automate the installation of additional packages.
Is there an easy way to also install Recommends of these packages?

I am having a problem with using the mouse in a dual-monitor X11 setup. On a one-monitor setup the mouse works fine, but with two monitors every mouse click is done twice, which is very annoying. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Ge...

Thanks for the advice. I used a Debian 4.0 netinst CD I had, and it seemed to work. I will install later and then do a dist-upgrade.

I have a computer with a broken primary IDE, but a working secondary IDE with a hard drive on /dev/hdc and a DVD burner on /dev/hdd. Using the Debian lenny netboot installer, it stops at "Detecting disks" and says it couldn't find any disks and gives me a list of drivers. However, I can la...

I want to make a dpkg package that contains a GDM theme and also sets it as the default. How can/should I do this?

Kubuntu has two packages, kicker-compiz and kicker-taskbar-compiz, that add a pager and taskbar with more Compiz compatibility. These packages can run on Debian lenny, but I had to modify the dependencies first. If anyone is interested, my modified versions w/ original source code is here: http://ww...

The gnome-core package is gone from Debian testing. Any idea of when it will be back?

I think KDM allows passwordless login. They should still have a password, but not need to use it. Not all that secure, but nobody's going to be accessing it remotely, and if they are at the computer physically it's not all that secure to start with. As for #2, 've always thought it would be nice if ...

Adept Updater and Adept Notifier (tray icon) still work. I use them on a regular basis.

Does anybody know why?

snapshot.debian.org has not gone any further than May 2:
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2008/05/
Here's the disk usage graph:

The command never asks you for your resolution or driver anymore in lenny or sid (or Ubuntu hardy.) Now I really am lost as to how to get my screen to 1024x768.
Whose idea was it to change Xorg to behave this way? Will it be changed back anytime soon?

I actually only have adept-notifier and its dependinces, not adept-manager, so that is probably what makes it work for me. I noticed your text says: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adept-updater: adept-updater depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6; however: Package libapt-pkg-libc6....

Using the old 2.1 vertions works just fine for me. Why won't it work for you?
http://pastebin.com/m23f9c962
The libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 dependency is provided by apt 0.7.11.

My version of apt is 0.7.10 (on lenny). Adept installs and works fine (as long as I install debtags beforehand.)

What I did (and it seems to work) is add this line to my sources.list: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool adept I installed adept-common 2.13, adept-updater 2.1.3+b3, and adept-updater 2.1.3+b3. Then I commented out the snapshot.debian.net line, to keep it from "upgrading" to vers...

Someone else should maintain the adept 2 branch, as it seems to have outgrown APT
It will be interesting to see how Kubuntu handles this, though.

Well, this is strange. Copying ~/.bashrc from another Debian machine fixed it, the .bashrc was not present on the machine where autocompletion didn't work. Here's what I think did it: # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bas...

On my setpu, I usually do a regular Debian install, then add sudo. This way I can wither log in as root or use sudo to do root commands. However, when I do this (rather than enabling sudo and disabling root account during the Debian install), pressing TAB after something like "sudo dpkg-re"...