Thanks for the reply Henry,
That clears things up a bit. I actually got things working a little
better Saturday afternoon. I just though I had to many entries in my
sources.list file. I may have messed thing up already too as I am
getting a compliant about not having the correct glibc version. So, if
time permits I will clean up the file tonight and see where I am at.
btw Henry, I picked up a HP LJ2 and and HP LJ3 used a couple weeks ago
so when I get a chance I will be able to come up and fix the printer for
you.
Stephen
Henry House wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:07:14AM -0700, Stephen M. Helms wrote:
>
>> I think I am just not understanding the man page for sources.list and am
>> trying to upgrade some packages on my potato system with newer
>> packages. I cannot seem to get the parameters right to add unstable
>> woody or sid.
>>
>> Can someonet help me out with an explaination and example of there
>> sources.list file.
>
>
> Not much to it, you just need to have the source lines right :-).
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> I suggest you use the testing (woody) sources and compile anything you need
> from unstable (sid) using apt-get source --build. This ensures that you get
> packages linked against your installed library versions.
>
> Unpredicatable results occur if you have sources of type deb for more than
> one distribution. Sources of type deb-src are only used to download source
> packages; the newest source package available will be used.
>
