Thank you, Nicholas! Alexandre.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:55 AM Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > > "Alexandre N." <alexand...@selodigital.net> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > Do we really need to use the flag "-t experimental" ? > > When I use it, it returns this error: > > > > It is needed because Plasma 5.20.4 is in the experimental suite, and not > yet in sid. See, for example: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/plasma-desktop > vs > https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop > > Please take to heart what Martin wrote: > > > Em sáb., 12 de dez. de 2020 às 15:37, Martin Steigerwald < > > mar...@lichtvoll.de> escreveu: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> If you are feeling adventurous and are using Sid, then you can help by > >> testing Plasma 5.20.4 from experimental. I installed it using > [snip] > >> Please do this only if you feel up to it and are willing to keep the > >> pieces in case something breaks. Of course you can always ask for help > >> here, but it would be good if you are willing to do your best to resolve > >> and diagnose issues on your own first and then if need be report with as > >> much detail as possible. > > In this case "adventurous" means you may encounter breakage, that you > understand the risks, and are nonetheless brave ;-) Please take your > time to consider carefully whether you can afford to break your GUI for > a couple of days. If you don't have a second system, it may be best to > test 5.20.4 from experimental in a VM, or wait for the upload to sid. > Don't forget that downgrading packages is not officially supported! > > The only system I enable experimental for is a Core-2-duo Thinkpad that > I keep around for testing and as an emergency backup laptop. I'm not > very adventurous :-p > > > root@sid:/home/coworking# apt install -t experimental plasma-base > > Reading package lists... Done > > E: The value 'experimental' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a > > release is not available in the sources > > root@sid:/home/coworking# > > > > To enable the experimental suite, add this line to sources.list, or to a > file in sources.list.d: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main > > > Regards, > Nicholas >
