I am using dell latitude d531 laptop(amd64) with debian 4.0 etch on it. The 4 DVD's I downloaded contained outdated softwares. Even the linux kernel shipped by debian was not able to support most of my hardware so I had to recompile it to the new kernel(2.6.25.9). The touchpad had problems too, so I had to follow some instructions about installing synaptics driver. etc...
Now the problem is that I still cannot install many softwares. And even the synaptics package manager is out of date and does not even connect through a proxy. Also the official repositories are not available. And searching on the internet made me get the view that installing from unofficial repositories would make my debian system break down as some file would surely be overwritten by a new one and break the software chain. Please tell me whether it is true or not. and If not i'll really appreciate if someone can direct me to such stable repositories. I am fond of debian a lot, but the problems I am facing is making me want to ship to another distribution and I cannot stop thinking why people want to use debian if there are so many problems one has to overcome before making it usable. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
