Hi Rob, Rob Myers said : > I'm not a package manager expert so I'm sorry if I'm doing or saying > anything silly.
I just tried on one of my machines and the puredyne meta package installs fine without warning or conflicts. (I'm using Aptitude instead of Synaptic, Aptitude being the "recommended" high level package manager from Debian). Can you make sure that you have the correct sources? (~) % cat /etc/apt/sources.list # Debian repositories deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib # Debian Multimedia repository deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ lenny main deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ lenny main # Debian GOTO10 repository deb http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free And the right pining: (~) % cat /etc/apt/preferences hee Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 800 And the right apt conf (~) % cat /etc/apt/apt.conf hee APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Install-Recommends "0"; then start aptitude, update with "u", mark for upgrades with "U" and confirm installation byt hitting twice "g" Let's see if it works fine now. > > Thanks. > > - Rob. > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
