Fwd: Re: installing non-"stable" packages and software
Thank you for your help. I found your "Debian Reference" invaluable.
I tried downgrading my system back to stable but ran into some problems
with dselect complaining about dependencies on non-existent packages
(no way out but Ctrl-C) so I just wiped the system and did a new
install (I was going to anyway).
I did a clean install of stable and then upgraded to gnome/unstable,
mozilla/unstable, and the CVS snapshot of gaim mentioned in the other
reply. I had some configuration problems with Gnome but was able to
fix them. Everything seems to be fine now. Here are my /etc/apt
files:
----8<----preferences----8<----
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 60
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
----8<----sources.list----8<----
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim unstable cvs
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim unstable cvs
----8<----end----8<----
Adam
--- Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:29:40 -0800
> From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> To: Adam <ack94598@yahoo.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: installing non-"stable" packages and software
>
> Salute to the brave soul :)
>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:28:17AM -0800, Adam wrote:
> > I duplicated the entries in my sources.list and replaced "stable"
> with
> > "unstable" in the new entries and everything worked great.
>
> Hmm, you found this now and running unstable.
>
> > Gnome 2.0 looks and works much better than the old (probably
> > mis-installed) version.
>
> You are lucky. Running unstable is fun but risky business.
> Get insurance like apt_preferences(5), APT-HOWTO or Chapter 6 of my
> "Debian Reference" at below URL.
>
> I am worried about you system.
>
> Cheers
>
> Osamu
> --
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