[plug] Another user converted to Debian :)

[Adrian Woodley]

Yeah, it does. But the easiest way around that if you still want to run
Woody/Sarge is to put an entry in your apt.conf file along the lines of
'APT::Default-Release "stable"'. Make sure that your sources.list refers to
'stable' instead of 'woody'. Then add another entry refering to 'unstable'. It
will then only pull files from Sid if you need them. An apt-get -t experimental
install gnome2 should set you up with the latest gnome 2 stuff without needing
to run your whole system on Sid (not that thats a problem - all my machines run
on sid).

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Computer & IT
www.Diskworld.com.au

Australian Linux Conference, Perth 2003
http://conf.linux.org.au


Quoting Jeff Williams <jw at globaldial.com>:

> James Bromberger wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 11:19:33PM +0800, Jason Bainbridge wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>Is there a good reason why you want to be building gnome2? There are
> >>>perfectly good debs just an apt-get away with the following in your
> >>>apt/sources.list:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Thanks for that, it's going through the motions now. :)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Or as was pointed out by Adrian W, Debian 'experimental' has Gnome 2. 
> >
> >deb ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ ../project/experimental main
> >
> Does this depend on a lot of stuff from unstable?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -- 
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
> 
> 
> 
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