Hi I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages than deselect . Moreover while deselect shows no broken dependencies aptitude shows that some installed packages are broken ("iB" in red). I am perplexed by this. Any ideas what may be going wrong ? Which should I use to install packages ? . Does aptitude inform the user in advance of possible conflicts like deselect does ? I wonder if my source list has any thing to do with this. I kind of cooked it up myself (and was not to sure) but it work ; and I would like to be with the latest unstable distribution ? (sources.list are attached)
b thomas
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free # Added by B.Thomas deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu stable main crypto optional qt1apps #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main