Applications I miss in Knoppix 6.4.3: joe, gdisk

[DirkS]

Hi utu,

but instead I think you should consult your Synaptic.

What if I have no network connection?

I'm running 6.4.4, but I'd be surprised to hear that
6.4.3 doesn't allow you to get both joe and gdisk;
6.4.4 sure does. Or maybe you need to open up a few
more repos.

Hmm... This makes me wonder about whether I have the wrong idea about Knoppix and the way I use it altogether: As a BIG chest of tools that are just there, out of the box and don't need to be downloaded from somewhere.

Have you tried Synaptic? If so, what problems are you
having? Let's hear more from you.

No, I haven't tried synaptic. Since the persistence feature is not properly working right now (at least I could not find out how to make it work) and fiddling with partitions usually involves several reboots within a short time, I would have needed to do the installation of these tools over and over within said short time.

Instead, I used 'grml'. A nice distribution, more aimed for admin jobs, contains everything I needed out of the box (joe, gdisk, gparted) and has a working persistence feature (using the Debian Live system, by the way - wouldn't that be an option for Knoppix, too, assuming that the previously existing persistence feature would need some major effort for making it work again anyway?)

You see, I already have a solution. But why should Knoppix stay behind?