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Re: Debian sarge base + xfce4 desktop



On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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.
> 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.  

> Any advice?

I've no idea if that repository has a coplete set of experimental.  I
would follow up with the debian-amd64 people.

Simon.

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