[wplug] Was: Tried several distro's. Now: Debian HELP

[R.E.Coutch]

I setup the sources.list  to point to 2 http servers with the 
testing/unstable versions.
Had to comment out the stabe CD's otherwise I got an error about MMap 
out of space.

Ran the command: 

apt-get install -f && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

and the machince proceeded to download about 450Mb od files.

It then began upgrading software.

When it was done, I was up to X version 4.2.1.1 (up from 4.0.1) but KDE and Gnome werre GONE!
It again put an unusable XF86Config file in place that I had to rewrite.

I tried to get KDE by entering:

apt-get install -t unstable kde

but received multiple errors about missing dependancies.

I thought apt-get took care of this. 

It back to RTFM on apt-get for now. I'll let you know how it turns out.

BTW - What exactly consitutes UNSTABLE vs. STABLE?
      I've got a couple Linux installations running leading edge stuff that I haven't had a bit of trouble with.
      Would security bugs/flaws be considered a reason to call someting unstable or just a program that crashes?


-Bob


Michael E Uhl wrote:

>>Not all latest and greatest software is considered fashionable and
>>broken, some of us run later versions of software for feature that are
>>not available in current what's considered "debian" stable.
>>    
>>
>
>I agree debian stable has some fairly old software, that's why I run
>debian testing. While it may not include the latest and greatest
>versions of a lot of packages, it includes newer versions than stable
>does and still results in a reasonably stable system.  If you want the
>latest version of a software package, like gaim for instance, compile it
>yourself.  It's all a matter of personal opinion: you can start with a
>system that has the latest (and perhaps unstable) version of almost all
>packages (i.e. Red Hat) or you can start with a system that has older
>(and probably more stable) versions of most packages and add newer
>versions of the particular packages that you need.
>
>that's my two cents...
>-michael
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