Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)
"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> "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)
>> `----
>
> Well, you seem to be somewhat successfully running testing, but with
> your sources.list set as it is, you'll never actually get any updated
> packages. Everything will be newer in testing, and you're pointing
> only at squeeze (where everything will be either the same or lower
> version).
>
> I would suggest uncommenting the wheezy bits, commenting out the
> squeeze buts (perhaps adding contrib and non-free at your option) and
> running another apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and seeing what it
> wants to do. It's likely to want to install a number of packages to
> bring your "then current" wheezy install to the "now current" versions
> of packages. You don't have to apply the update, just see what it
> wants to do.
And here I was all patting myself on the back having accomplished some
unsupported hackery all on my own....
But since I've gotten this far and still have a living breathing OS,
what must I do to really really go to squeeze.
But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates
one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all.
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