On Monday Aug 27, 22:21 Ross Burton wrote: >Hi, > >Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many >years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of >questions: > >1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I >want to check that all of the packages on my system are from Sid, not >Potato.
I suggest you to use dselect. You can read some obout this tool in #man dselect. If you put only the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list, you will have only access to the packages of Sid: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free >2. How do I verify the dependancies, i.e. check that no packages should >be installed. When I was upgrading to Sid I got a number of errors >which I believe I have solved, but would like to check this! Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies. >3. I guess to access my Reiserfs home drive I've got to recompile the >kernel? >4. Okay - trouble-shooting time. When I start X if works fine for about >2 minutes, then the mouse jerks for a few seconds before locking up. >Any idea why this is? > >5. As XFree86 initializes I get these errors on the console: > >Symbol __glXMalloc from module >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! >Symbol __glXFree from module >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! >Symbol __glXLastContext from module >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! > >Any ideas how I can resolve this? My idea: Because you had much errors while updating from Potato to Sid, there are now some packages unconfigured. To update from Potato to Sid, you should also use dselect. And apt-get is also the right tool for this. Dselect is a ncurses based frontend for apt-get. You could reinstall your Debian. Or wait, what other users reccomend to you. >6. What mailing list should questions like this go to? Is debian-user >for the stable release only, or all releases including Sid? This is the right adress for you. Here are users of all Debian releases. >Thanks for any help, > >Ross > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
