On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:24:00PM -0800, kevinold@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 5, 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, kevin...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > 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: > > > > > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main > > > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main > > > > > ############### > > > ### TESTING ### > > > ############### > > > # Testing (Soon to be Lenny) > > > #debhttp://http.us.debian.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free > > > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free > > > # Testing Sources > > > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non- > > > free > > > #Testing Security Updates > > > #debhttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main contrib non-free > > > #deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main > > > > > debhttp://security.debian.org/stable/updates main > > > > > How should I have it set? What options should I setup in > > > apt_preferences? > > > > with apt_preferences *not* setup, you are trying to move to etch > > here. That's probably what's causing a bunch of stuff to get > > removed. With more than one release's repository in your sources.list, > > you should set-up apt-preferences with a Default-Release > > option. otherwise the apt system will try to move you to the latest > > packages available to it. > > > > > > > > > In interactive mode for aptitude, what do you recommend doing? > > > > check apt-preferences. something like > > > > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > > > > wpuld be appropriate to run stable. then try again and see what > > happens. > > I set my default release to testing and was able to get everything > working! > so what kernel are you now running? A
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