Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)
"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>
>> However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly
>> incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping
>> out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally
>> installing lxde and enough of xorg stuff to make it work, without all
>> that much trouble.
>
> Harry, this move from testing to stable has me perplexed. How did you
> accomplish that? Can you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list, the
> content of /etc/debian_version, the output of "uname -a" and the
> versions of the following packages?
Egad, don't start picking this apart... it's working :)
It was a bit of a slug fest... and I made many moves without recording
what I'd done... but I can post the requested stuff.
,----
| /etc/apt/sources.list
| deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
| # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
| deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
| # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
| deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib
`----
,----
| cat /etc/debian_version
| wheezy/sid (whOOOps)
`----
,----
| uname -a
| Linux reader 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sat
| Aug 27 16:41:03 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
`----
> * coreutils (stable is at 8.5-1)
> * base-files (stable is at 6.0squeeze5)
> * bash (stable is at 4.1-3)
> * dpkg (stable is at 1.15.8.12)
> * apt (stable is at 0.8.10.3+squeeze1)
,----
| dpkg -l coreutils base-files bash dpkg apt
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/ ...
| |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name Version Description
| +++-=================-=======================================
| ii apt 0.8.15.9 Advd front-end for dpkg
| ii base-files 6.5 Deb base system misc ...
| ii bash 4.2-1 GNU Bourne Again SHell
| ii coreutils 8.13-3 GNU core utilities
| ii dpkg 1.16.1.2 Deb package management ...
`----
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| dpkg-query -W|awk '{printf "%-40s %s\n", $1, $2}'|egrep \
| '^(coreutils |base-files |bash |dpkg |apt )'
| apt 0.8.15.9
| base-files 6.5
| bash 4.2-1
| coreutils 8.13-3
| dpkg 1.16.1.2
`----
Yikes, looks like I lied thru my teeth.
But I can tell you that all those notices about updates when I was
running testing do not come anymore...
> You can check these with:
>
> harry@debian:~$ dpkg -l $package_name
>
> A downgrade of the operating system to a prior release (in this case,
> from testing to stable, or from wheezy to squeeze) is really not
> supported by the package management system. The above files,
> commands, and package versions look at some key operating system
> version information and core package versions and will give a good
> indication as to whether or not you're actually back on stable. I
> just can't shake the feeling you're now running some sort of
> frankenstein combination of testing and stable.
Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a
comeback otherwise.
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