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Author: fraser kendall
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] wicd in ceres; was Re: Danger: Debian POSIX hostility
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:04:37 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 01:38:26PM +0000, fraser kendall wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:07:11 +0200
> > Florian Zieboll <f.zieboll@???> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:44:21 +0100
> > > Le Loft <lfs.mailing@???> wrote:
> > >
> > > > wicd just
> > > > doesn't work
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you check the WiFi adapter's device name in the Wicd config? I
> > > remember that it took some time to figure out that it in fact
> > > works very well, when I played with it the first time.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I
> > have been trying to get wicd to work in ceres, but it doesn't
> > install due to a missing dependency (python-gobject-2). However, I
> > can get it installed and working as you describe if I include
> > beowulf repos in the apt sources (but not chimaera sources) without
> > any trouble.
>
> Does "but not chimaera sources" mean you haven't tried chimaera, or
> that you have and it didn't work?
>

The latter: I tried to install it using just ceres, then added chimaera
and chimaera-updates to no avail. removing chimaera and
chimaera-updates, then adding beowulf, beowulf-security, and
beowulf-updates did the trick.

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