On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 20:57 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri November 20 2009 06:03:18 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > > This morning I did a fresh install of testing amd64 to a new hard drive [..] > > However, the first time around I discovered that > > Nautilus was messed up. If you click on Preferences it will crash. You > > can't create bookmarks either.[..] > > I noticed the preferences in testing weren't working to. In my case I > installed unstable and that fixed the problem for me. (testing is squeeze)
> What I usually do when I run testing is to have both testing and unstable in > my /etc/apt/sources.list and I have this in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > That way if I do have a problem I can always install the version from > unstable. I have found that in most cases that will solve the problem. I do this too but, but only if it doesn't install a large amount of package from unstable. Personally, I set this in /root/.aptitude/config : aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%S %p %Z %v %V %t"; so the distribution name appears next to the package version. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
