Hello, I've just re-subscribed, and maybe this is just being discussed now. If so, I can't see it - I don't have any recent messages before today.
I installed Woody on my Thinkpad last week, and then added sources in testing so I could install the later sane packages, to get my Memorex scanner working. Those parts all worked. In time, I'd like to also add GnomeMeeting 0.93+, so I can conference with family and friends who use NetMeeting, and that needs Gnome 2 support. I've found pages that tell how to add that to Woody, but haven't done that with my current install. Something happened in the last week since I installed stable, and now dselect's list of what's installed and what to de-install doesn't match the packages that are actually on the system. It might be I commented out the testing sources in sources.list, and did an apt-get update. I'm afraid I'm not sure. I have two problems I know of now: 1) Getting dselect (and whatever dependent listings it relies on) consistent with the packages I have (and want) on my system. I am afraid to turn dselect loose after selecting new packages to install for fear it's going to remove most of what I've already chosen - fundamental stuff in most cases. It sure says it's going to remove them. 2) I don't think I have a good conceptual understanding of how to handle package management in Debian. I've read the Apt HowTo, and parts of other manuals to do with package management, but they are still appearing to me as recipes of how to do things. I haven't figured out how it all fits together. Once I've added the testing packages to my stable installation, how do I keep everything up to date? That's the big question for me now. It looks like if I comment out the testing sources, the update tries to downgrade the packages to match the stable versions. Or did the problem of dselect trying to remove all my packages come from some other action? I'm confused. Any conceptual help about mixed packages and updating would be very welcome - I'm paralyzed until I figure out how to handle this. Thanks, Bret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
