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Shawn H Corey wrote: Hi ShawnOn Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:24:50 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote: Beware, thar be dragons :-) That you're asking these questions suggests it is a bit early for you to consider upgrading to sid (he's the one in Toy Story who breaks toys in spectacular fashion) aka unstable. I guess you're running lenny/stable and I've just checked the apt-cache one of our ppc servers here and yes, it's not available in Lenny. You may not need to upgrade the whole system to sid but you may be able to upgrade that package alone or more probably, xfce. Before you do anything I would install apt-listbugs because when you're upgrading stuff it will show you what's got bugs. After that edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all references from lenny or stable to sid, then save the file and run either: #apt-get update or #aptitude update DO NOT upgrade If you are familiar with aptitude in interactive mode search for the package and try to upgrade just that package. Aptitude will show you if you're going to break something and hitting "e" will offer various solutions. Alternatively: # apt-cache search libxfconf will show you what package is available and then do: #apt-get install packagename It should notify you of missing dependencies etc. If it does install without a hitch, go back to your sources.list and change sid to lenny again. Do another apt-get update and all will be back to normal. When you're a bit more familiar with Debian and feeling adventurous, google on stable versus sid. HTH Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited www.clivemenzies.co.uk 07836 601378 |