[linux-audio-user] Suitable distro for audio works: Debian Stable -> Unstable

[tim hall]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 21:45, Mr. Spock wrote:

> Could you clarify for me: I've got Debian Woody 3.0 Stable (+security
> patches) installed, but I need Unstable for the newer apps and libraries.
> However, the old Stable version of gcc (2.95.4) is not happy with the new
> (3.2?) one, and my attempt to apt-get things brought up unmet dependencies.
> So is there a way around this, short of reinstalling the whole base system?

Round? no. It is recommended that you either install stable /or/ unstable. 
Mixing the two is very likely to give you errors like the one above. You will 
also have problems with KDE3, Jackd, fltk etc. I wouldn't bother, personally.

> I'm sure Debian is cleverer than that!

Yes it is. Read Debian Reference. It will explain far better than I ever 
could. I use apt-pinning to manage my mixed system. I'm still relatively new 
at this myself. I've not had to do any forced installs in order to get a 
(mostly) working system, let alone compile anything from source.

> I did try to download a DeMuDi-0.9 ISO over my superfast dial-up modem
> connection (maxes out at 5KBps) which would have taken 46 hours (no
> surfing all weekend!), but it stopped after only 68MB, although this may
> have been to do with their domain weirdness. So I'd rather just apt-get
> single packages at a time.

Yeah, I'm on dialup as well. Just download the packages you want. IIRC there 
is one called 'demudi-all' - an empty package that depends on all the others 
- one overnight download should do it. Don't quote me on this.

DeMuDi-0.9 is way out of date. Not recommended.

> Sadly http://packages.debian.org/ is still down pending security checks.
> Can one get most audio packages straight from DeMuDi?

Yes.
Fortunately http://apt.agnula.org is up or was of this morning at least.
http://www.agnula.org is the website. Have a _good_ read :-)

HTH

tim hall