24 Dec
2003
24 Dec
'03
11:01 p.m.
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DeMuDi-0.9 is way out of date.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