On Wednesday 24 December 2003 21:45, Mr. Spock wrote: > Could you clarify for me: I've got Debian Woody 3.0 Stable (+security > patches) installed, but I need Unstable for the newer apps and libraries. > However, the old Stable version of gcc (2.95.4) is not happy with the new > (3.2?) one, and my attempt to apt-get things brought up unmet dependencies. > So is there a way around this, short of reinstalling the whole base system? Round? no. It is recommended that you either install stable /or/ unstable. Mixing the two is very likely to give you errors like the one above. You will also have problems with KDE3, Jackd, fltk etc. I wouldn't bother, personally. > I'm sure Debian is cleverer than that! Yes it is. Read Debian Reference. It will explain far better than I ever could. I use apt-pinning to manage my mixed system. I'm still relatively new at this myself. I've not had to do any forced installs in order to get a (mostly) working system, let alone compile anything from source. > I did try to download a DeMuDi-0.9 ISO over my superfast dial-up modem > connection (maxes out at 5KBps) which would have taken 46 hours (no > surfing all weekend!), but it stopped after only 68MB, although this may > have been to do with their domain weirdness. So I'd rather just apt-get > single packages at a time. Yeah, I'm on dialup as well. Just download the packages you want. IIRC there is one called 'demudi-all' - an empty package that depends on all the others - one overnight download should do it. Don't quote me on this. DeMuDi-0.9 is way out of date. Not recommended. > Sadly http://packages.debian.org/ is still down pending security checks. > Can one get most audio packages straight from DeMuDi? Yes. Fortunately http://apt.agnula.org is up or was of this morning at least. http://www.agnula.org is the website. Have a _good_ read :-) HTH tim hall
