Re: aptitude problems
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:53 -0400, Charles wrote:
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> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700
> Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:26:32AM -0400, Charles
> > was heard to say:
> > > I'm running Debian testing --- in Synaptic I have a bunch of
> > > packages which are in the "local or obsolete category". Some have
> > > been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install
> >
> > The local or obsolete category in both aptitude and synaptic
> > consists of packages that are installed on your system but aren't
> > available from any of the archives you have listed in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list. Usually this is because they were removed
> > from the archive after you installed them, but it could also come
> > about if you removed a repository line from sources.list after
> > installing a package.
>
> Well that would make sense for some of the packages...but among
> the list is linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 which I believe is the current
> kernel on testing and the whole openoffice.org series ???
>
>
> This is my sources list ( which seems awfully short). Is there
> something missing for Debian testing ?
>
>
> # Security Debian binary archive
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org testing main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
> deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
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> Charles
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FYI: I use these as by basic lines for /etc/apt/sources.list
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# Testing
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib main non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ squeeze/volatile main
# deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib
non-free
# deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib main
non-free
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
non-free
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I have commented out the sources (deb-src) lines because I usually don't
need them. I also noticed a link to ubuntu which will definitely cause
issues as the dependencies are different. If you want to use compatible
ubuntu files on a debian system, & there are some, I suggest you either
build them yourself from sources or at least put them in a local
directory with the correct dependencies also there & add that to the apt
sources list. This can easily be managed with pinning.
Good Luck!
--
John Foster
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