Re: Installing vim 7.0
On Mar 5, 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, kevin...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, kevin...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800
>
> > > > > "kevin...@gmail.com" <kevin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Hello everyone,
>
> > > > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian
> > > > > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD
> > > > > > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional
> > > > > > packages.
>
> > > > > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable
> > > > > > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7.
> > > > > > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I
> > > > > > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel.
>
> > > > > I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but
> > > > > I may be totally wrong.
>
> > > > > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it
> > > > > > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants
> > > > > > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about
> > > > > > installing ncurses.
>
> > > > > Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for
> > > > > building ncurses apps.
>
> > > > I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my
> > > > kernel and not install a new one?
>
> > > how have you set up your sources.list? and how about apt_preferences?
>
> > > might be worth your time to jump into aptitude's interactive mode
> > > (just aptitude, no parameters, on the cli) and marking some packges as
> > > manually installed.
>
> > Haven't looked at apt_preferences, but my sources.list looks like:
>
> > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main
> > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main
>
> > ###############
> > ### TESTING ###
> > ###############
> > # Testing (Soon to be Lenny)
> > #debhttp://http.us.debian.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free
> > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free
> > # Testing Sources
> > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non-
> > free
> > #Testing Security Updates
> > #debhttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main contrib non-free
> > #deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main
>
> > debhttp://security.debian.org/stable/updates main
>
> > How should I have it set? What options should I setup in
> > apt_preferences?
>
> with apt_preferences *not* setup, you are trying to move to etch
> here. That's probably what's causing a bunch of stuff to get
> removed. With more than one release's repository in your sources.list,
> you should set-up apt-preferences with a Default-Release
> option. otherwise the apt system will try to move you to the latest
> packages available to it.
>
>
>
> > In interactive mode for aptitude, what do you recommend doing?
>
> check apt-preferences. something like
>
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
>
> wpuld be appropriate to run stable. then try again and see what
> happens.
I set my default release to testing and was able to get everything
working!
Thanks for your help
Kevin
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