Re: Debian sarge base + xfce4 desktop

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (06/04/05 21:33), Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I undertook to try the experimental version but need a bit of help.
> > I use aptitude to update my system.  Do I just need to put
> > 'experimental' in the the sources.list or do I have to download and
> > install by hand?
> 
> You'll want unstable and experimental in sources.list and you'll want to
> check you get the experimental versions with aptitude.
Hi Simon

I amended my sources.list as follows:

deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib
non-free

deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 experimental main contrib non-free

# deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
# deb http://www.kanotix.lxserv.de/debian ./

and everything updates OK but trying to reinstall xfce4 complains that
it can't find the package.  

The 'kanotix' xfce4 version is for sarge but works fine on my system,
although I seem to have lost xfdesktop functionality suddenly for no
reason.  I thought that if I installed the experimental version, I could
track down the problem and report a bug if necessary but I'm a bit
stymied at present.

Any advice?

Regards

Clive





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