Re: Adding: squeeze-backports-sloppy to my sources.list broke apt! INSTRUCTIONS at: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ NOT CLEAR TO NEWBIES!
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On 29 June 2013 13:33, Beagleburt <bruce.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> I followed the instructions at :
> http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
>
> squeeze-backports-sloppy
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> but when I tried to "apt-get -t squeeze-backports-sloppy install iceweasel", apt failed! I then commented-out the squeeze-backports-sloppy repo source - (& used the command: "apt-get -t squeeze-backports install iceweasel") & apt worked again but did not find the package...I then tried putting "wheezy-backports" in place of "squeeze-backports" & I was successful in downloading the package. I then used "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" which worked. I then shut down & restarted Iceweasel & flash finally worked. Phew! I found the whole process confusing & I do not know how absolute "newbies" would get on....I was not impressed with: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ as the INSTRUCTIONS did not work & I had to think outside-the-box to get everything to work ok. I realize now - (?) - that "squeeze" was wrong & that - as I am using "wheezy" - it was the right command to use. ...but that was not clear to a relative newcomer in the "INSTRUCTIONS"! I hope that someone reading this post can make sense of it & clarify the "http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/"; page for newbies. t.a. - 'b'ye.
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Debian 7 is "wheezy"; you shouldn't have followed instructions meant
for "squeeze", which is the previous release of Debian.
Installing squeeze-backports-sloppy on a wheezy system is unsupported
and probably will cause breakage.
The instructions explain what each distribution is, and clearly state
that "squeeze-backports-sloppy" is for systems running "squeeze".
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