"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871ullmvb1....@newsguy.com