Many thanks for all the responses. I plan to ease out of my personal
Frankendebian by just reinstalling. And I vow to be more careful about
copy-and-pasting stuff from websites into my //system files!
-Paul
Hi Greg,
thanks for the response. That makes sense and it makes it clear. So my way is
also ok.
However, sometimes I added a package from unstable (mostly, because it was
either broken in testing or only available in stable and unstable, but not
testing), but (thumbs pressed) I had never pro
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:01:42PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I am using debian/testing now for years, but my kind of doing so, was just to
> use the entry for the stable repo plus the entry for testing repo
> in /etc/apt/sources.list. What is the advantage of doing your way?
If you are running testin
Hmm. this is a new information for me. Can you exlain for me. why this is
recommended so?
I am using debian/testing now for years, but my kind of doing so, was just to
use the entry for the stable repo plus the entry for testing repo
in /etc/apt/sources.list. What is the advantage of doing your
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:14:39AM +0200, john doe wrote:
> If you want to be able to install packages from the testing repositories
> while being on stable you should
use backports instead.
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
On 6/12/2018 9:15 PM, murta...@stat.orst.edu wrote:
I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file,
which now looks like this:
deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
There is a bit of misunderstanding here. Lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
(as well as in sources.list.d) are just a description of used
repositories. By itself they couldn't change anything in the OS. When
you 'apt-get update' it downloads package lists. This is fine, as no
damage was done yet. B
I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file,
which now looks like this:
deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security str
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