On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, kevinold@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > > > "kevin...@gmail.com" <kevin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > > > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > > > packages. > > > > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable > > > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7. > > > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I > > > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel. > > > > I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but > > I may be totally wrong. > > > > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it > > > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants > > > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about > > > installing ncurses. > > > > Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for > > building ncurses apps. > > I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my > kernel and not install a new one? > how have you set up your sources.list? and how about apt_preferences? might be worth your time to jump into aptitude's interactive mode (just aptitude, no parameters, on the cli) and marking some packges as manually installed. A
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