On Saturday 11 July 2009 05:49:59 am Jan de Groot wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:19 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Installing libjpeg, libmng and libtiff from testing with pacman -U > > then allows a system update to proceed normally. > > After which you have a broken system because many things link to libjpeg > and have a version in testing that has been rebuilt with this new > version. > Selective package installation from testing isn't the smartest thing to > do if you don't know why those packages are in testing. > > Jan, Of course you are right. After firefox wouldn't start, I gave up and just added testing as a repo and did a system update. Now all is working fine on my laptop. (My server is still hosed..... ) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
