--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:
Sounds to me like you may have CD burner problems or possibly many bad downloads. If I were you, I'd check MD5 sums on your .iso image downloads. Also, if you are talking about hardware issues with your laptop...
That was my first thought, but it only happens with Ubuntu family of distros. Whereas, the odd thing is, that I have my best success with the *buntu distros on laptops.
For Apt-pin issues, I was referring to stuff pinned by Mepis. It would either keep me from installing or uninstalling software. Many times, just an upgrade would be impossible ...
Hmm, that's odd. I've never run into that issue with Mepis.
Does anyone have apt-get update/upgrade called in a cron job to stay up to date?
I've considered it, but have decided I like to see what is going to upgrade before doing it (especially since, I have OpenOffice apt-pinned so that I can use Mozilla addresses as a data source). Although, the update part is a good idea.