On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:19:32PM -0400, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) > I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to > get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to > get packages from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to do > this. I googled it and found something about Pinning and followed the > instructions (created a preferences file and put some stuff in there) and it > doesn't work. Here's the entry I put in the sources file (that's probably > the problem): > > deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main > > However, when I run 'apt-get update' here's the result: > > Fetched 3053kB in 18s (164kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred whie processing python-egenix-mxstack (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_pac > kages > E: Package lists or status fie could not be parsed or opened > > I have no idea what any of that means...speaking of which, if someone > wouldn't mind explaining the format of the sources.list file (the man page > is unclear to me) I would be greatly appreciative. > > Thank You in Advance, > David Bokan
It is not possible for a real* user to run packages from Sarge(testing) on a Potato(stable) system. This is not always true, but at this moment in time Sarge uses a library which is incompatible with most packages in Potato. To get KDE3 you will have to migrate to Sarge, and then install KDE. I noticed the memory overflow a long time ago when I first decided to look into Sarge myself. I never found out how to overcome it, and will be watching with interest to see how one deals with it. To convert to Sarge: 1. Edit your current sources.list which mentions stable or Potato is several places. Change all of these to Sarge. 2. run apt-get update This should not overflow, as you are not retaining package lists for Potato. 3. run apt-get dist-upgrade This will take a while as almost all the base packages must be upgraded. I expect that you will get other responses to you post. I suggest that you not try this until you have read all of them carefully. Welcome to Debian, the distribution where social adgenda is a good thing. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Maybe it is possible, but a user with three days experience should not be asked to attempt such a feat. The experience will give a totally wrong impression of how great a distribution Debian really is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
