Re: Installing vim 7.0
On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, kevin...@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.
Haven't looked at apt_preferences, but my sources.list looks like:
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
###############
### TESTING ###
###############
# Testing (Soon to be Lenny)
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# Testing Sources
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-
free
#Testing Security Updates
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
How should I have it set? What options should I setup in
apt_preferences?
In interactive mode for aptitude, what do you recommend doing?
Thanks,
Kevin
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