2009/3/28 Rob Canning <[email protected]>: > jm jones said : >> 2009/3/28 altern <[email protected]>: >> > hi >> > >> > couple of weeks ago i had a problem where my laptop went funny because i >> > accidentally removed many packages when installing some new sutff. >> > >> > now i realised that while fixing this the network manager i was using it is >> > gone. I am trying to install it again but when i do aptitude install it >> > wants to remove a huge list of packages most (big of the system). I tried >> > with different ones (kwifimanager, network-manager) and it is the same with >> > all of them. >> > >> > i am checking the /etc/apt/sources.list and i see that most entries say >> > "lenny" while one says "unstable". This could be the problem? antonios said >> > that recently lenny has changed from unstable to testing so i guess i am >> > mixing different versions... >> > >> > thanks >> > >> > enrike >> > >> > --- >> > [email protected] >> > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne >> > >> >> Lenny is stable. Take away the unstable repository. >> This is may sources.list: >> >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >> >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib >> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib >> >> deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ lenny main >> deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ lenny main >> >> deb http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > > > lenny has becoome stable yes but dont remove the unstable as puredyne uses a > mixture of testing and unstable > > the new testing is called squeeze > > so change all the lenny entries to squeeze > > right now we have a slight problem so leave the GOTO10 repos as lenny > > deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib > > # Custom repositories > # GOTO10 > deb http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > > # Debian Multimedia > deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ squeeze main > deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ squeeze main > > deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ unstable main > deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ unstable main > > # Debian Unstable > 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 > > > > can you give full details on the errors that you get from aptitude > > i had a similar problem because one if the packages is broken libgig6 > this is a dependency of qsampler which is part of the puredyne metapackage > so as this is broken it tries to remove the whole of puredyne - you need to > force the upgrade of libgig6 to the unstable version as far as i remember > > aptitutde usually gives you options of > solutions are you happy with this solution y/n/q etc. > > first lets see your aptitude errors then we can take it from there... > > rob > > >> >> >> -- >> JM >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne >> > -------------- > [email protected] > rob.goto10.org > -------------- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJzkOPyHhCfi3DkcIRAlJjAJ9Jx1j6r80Up4gm7cN3vYxImzBGPwCcCPb8 > 6ngCthK8q39adKvuuFTZrdQ= > =pRQF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne >
Oh, now Im confused. My system works very well. I dont have the testing and unstable repository, whats the adventage?? -- JM --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
