Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

[Dave Patterson <sdpatt2@gmail.com>]

* Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> [2005-09-22 16:15:14 +0200]:

> Bob Alexander ha scritto:
> >I have a Thinkpad T40 (ATI Rad M9 1400x1050 panel) Debian system 
> >tracking sid.
> >
> 
 
> I am now using aptitude and have
> 
> deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian testing main
> 
do: '...testing main contrib non-free'
for full flavor.
addlines for stable, and unstable

 
> What is the proper way of including some packages from other (e.g. 
> unstable) sources to upgrade to kde 3.4 ?
> 
> How about the same (if possible) to obtain OpenOffice 2.0 ?
> 
> I have tried to understand pinning...
use this: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

double the recommended size there for the cache-limit.

apt-get install synaptic.  It works under KDE as well, and is quicker
to understand than aptitude. And it will show all packages from all
available sources more easily.  It won't clean up after your stuff as
well as aptitude, but that's what deborphan's for.

Be advised that libqt3-mt-dev install will rip out xorg. xlibmesa-
something or other is incompatible.  So you'll have to menuconfig or
something to config a new kernel build for the moment.

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Regards, Dave
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