[wplug] Debian HELP

[R.E.Coutch]

Hi Eric,

First of all - thanks for the help.

I checked my system but neither of the files you mentioned in your 
message are on my system.

It must be another bad computer weekend for me.
The Red Hat 9 I just installed on my laptop won't build (rpmbuild 
--rebuild) any source RPM's into binaries.

I'll keep trying,

Bob



Eric C. Cooper wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0400, R.E.Coutch wrote:
>  
>
>>Had to comment out the stable CD's otherwise I got an error about
>>MMap out of space.
>>    
>>
>
>Add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf to fix this (a smaller limit
>might work too):
>
>APT {
>  Cache-Limit 16777216;
>  ... any other APT defaults ...
>}
>
>  
>
>>I tried to get KDE by entering:
>>apt-get install -t unstable kde
>>but received multiple errors about missing dependancies.
>>    
>>
>
>To get the pinning feature ("-t unstable") to work right, you have to have
>/etc/apt/preferences set up correctly.  See "man apt_preferences".
>
>A useful command to debug it is "apt-cache policy <package>".  It will
>list the different versions of the package, and tell you which one
>would be installed by apt-get by default (without -t).
>
>  
>
>>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?
>>    
>>
>
>See http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.en.html.  Basically,
>packages are first put into unstable for bleeding-edge types to test,
>then move to testing, and into stable only when a new official release
>comes out. Security fixes are back-ported very diligently to stable
>via the stable/updates repository on security.debian.org (it's one
>reason why the stable release is very attractive for server admins).
>In unstable and testing, a security fix would typically just result in
>a new, higher version of the package.
>
>  
>