hi and thanks so much for trying to help i tried what you said but got: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies:linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 : Depends: linux-base (>= 2.6.36-1~experimental.1) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>= 2.6.36) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed
E: Broken packages so it isn't installedalso i didn't have a /etc/apt/preferences file so i created it ... is that correct?
On 11/15/2010 10:46 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 04:09:24PM +0100, lauren wrote:i'm sorry but i don't know how to do that kind of upgrade ... will it break the rest of my system? :(No, it won't. Just do the following: # cat>> /etc/apt/preferences<< EOF Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental Pin-Priority: 102 EOF # echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main">> /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 This should prevent any unwanted upgrades from experimental and still allow you to hand-pick kernels from there. The installation updates one additional package that should not hurt you. Other than that running a squeeze with .36 should be fine. Best regards Uwe