On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 18:33:12 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...]
> But, two more questions: > > the mozilla-browser package is not there in Debian Sid. How can I know what > its equivalent is? Running "apt-cache search mozilla browser" finds, among other things, the "iceape" package. "apt-cache show iceape" tells you that it is a meta-package depending on "iceape-browser" and "iceape-mailnews", recommending "iceape-chatzilla", and suggesting "iceape-calendar". These are the packages for the different components; if you only want the browser then you need "iceape-browser". > I thought there were only Debian Stable, Testing and Unstable; but now I see > also `experimental'. What's that? Sid normally has the newest released versions of software, or at least reasonably usable release-candidate versions. A package in "experimental" can be anything from a very usable development snapshot (with new features) to something that is completely useless if you are not a developer working on that program/driver. During (or even before) a pre-release freeze, experimental can furthermore act as the repository for new versions of packages that cannot go into unstable because a previous version is meant to be released with the next "stable". Examples for this are the KDE 4.* packages: The 4.0 versions were really "experimental" but the 4.1 ones seem to be quite OK and could in principle enter Sid. However, they have to be kept out of Sid until after the release of Lenny (except for certain KDE/Qt 4.* development tools and libraries), so they stay in experimental. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
