On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 23:01 +1300, Aidan Gauland wrote: > On 21/03/12 15:10, John Carter wrote: > > So having gone around and around and around the Ubuntu Oneiric / Precise > > / ... install, and grub grubbing and (quite promising boot-repair) root.... > > > > I have got nowhere due that UEFI curse word. > > > > Arch Linux installed as slick as a greased suppository. > > > > So I'm going with that for now. > > I tried Arch. Drive me absolutely batty. It made me appreciate just > how much Debian does to make packages work nicely with the rest of the > system. Arch leaves almost EVERYTHING to you. Some users want that, > but I don't want *that* much control. > > Let me know how it works out for you. > > (I use Debian testing, in case anyone was wondering which release of > Debian I use.) > > --Aidan
I'm now using LMDE which is based on debian testing. A choice I've
bitterly regretted since I started. Initially I was using squeeze, but
it was just too much hassle to get the nvidia card working properly ( it
didn't even recognise it as a nvidia card ).
Why on earth is is based on testing, not stable? I'd like my sound to
work, to be able to run ffmpeg... basic trivia like that.
As an example...
$ sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but 1.1.10-1+b1 is to be
installed
Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.10) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libva-x11-1 (> 1.0.14~) but 1.0.12-2 is to be installed
Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.14~) but 1.0.12-2 is to be installed
Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be
installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but 1.1.10-1+b1 is
to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but 1.1.10-1+b1 is
to be installed
E: Broken packages
Sorry it's just a moan / recommendation of a distro to avoid like the
plague...
Steve
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