Benjamin Sher wrote:
Without the errors posted, it is tough for us to guess what the actual problem is.Dear friends:I've noticed that some debian sources use the term "stable", others use the term "sarge". I was advised by some members of our list that I should change "stable" to "sarge" to assure continuity. But when I did that, Synaptic complained of errors.
What happens when you find a source for certain applications, for example, mplayer or whatever, that uses the term "sarge" instead of "stable". Are you as the user allowed to change the word?mplayer is not present in official debian packages. When you are installing something from a third party all bets are off and the following explanation wont apply. But I assume that you are using mplayer just to drive down your point.
There are two scenarios.1) A machine which has stable in sources.list does not mean that it is running sarge. It could still be running woody (previous stable version) if it has not been updated after sarge release.
2) assuming that a machine has stable in sources.list and has been kept uptodate then we can say that sarge and stable can be interchanged in sources.list until there is a new release.
You are allowed to change the word in sources.list provided you have right permissions. Normal users probably cannot change that.
Aren't "stable" and "sarge" interchangeable in apt-get/synaptic?
For a machine that has been kept uptodate, the answer is yes. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/