30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
8:49 a.m.
On 2007-11-30 12:40, Diseño treees wrote:
well i'm a Debian user, but since 64s is debian
based, there's no
problem with the two repositories, so you can have both and download
the packages you need. I usually do that with an even worse case:
mixing lenny and sid repositories. I cross my fingers, and i only do
install ONE package i need, and after that i comment out the sid
repositories in sources.list.
Examples are always good so here is what works for me...
# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
and I have multiple stable/testing/unstable entries in my
/etc/apt/sources.list which then allows me to install any
package with a...
apt-get -t unstable install amarok
and not have to worry about editing files. If a package
seems to have trouble starting then use "ldd /path/to/proggie"
and see if any libs are missing. Overall one of the best
strategies I find is to have a few "spare" 5Gb to 10Gb
partitions available for various system installs and use
a common large /home partition. This way you can have
32bit/64bit 64studio, ubuntustudio and any other distros
all just a boot away (or a kvm/virtualbox invocation away).
--markc