Re: apt-get: mixed system

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Paul Johnson said: > > Unless you have a thorough understanding of the packaging system, you > can do more harm than good toying with how it resolves dependencies. > sh*t, I use it on production systems every day. Works for me, doesn't seem to cause problems. When stuff breaks I get 300 people in

Re: apt-get: mixed system

2004-06-05 Thread Luis R Finotti
Thanks, Joris and Paul. I will try to stick to backport. (Thanks for the warning, Paul.) All I want is to add a newer version of gphoto2/gtkam, since the older version does not support my camera. I tried adding the line deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable gphoto2 gtkam to my source li

Re: apt-get: mixed system

2004-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Luis R Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > I am trying to install a program (gphoto2) from the testing distribution > in my stable system. I tried to follow the instructions on > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get#s-default-version > > First I noticed that I

Re: apt-get: mixed system

2004-06-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Luis R Finotti wrote: Dear all, I am trying to install a program (gphoto2) from the testing distribution in my stable system. I tried to follow the instructions on http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get#s-default-version First I noticed that I did not have a "/etc/apt/apt.conf" f