Thank you for your help. I found your "Debian Reference" invaluable. I tried downgrading my system back to stable but ran into some problems with dselect complaining about dependencies on non-existent packages (no way out but Ctrl-C) so I just wiped the system and did a new install (I was going to anyway).
I did a clean install of stable and then upgraded to gnome/unstable, mozilla/unstable, and the CVS snapshot of gaim mentioned in the other reply. I had some configuration problems with Gnome but was able to fix them. Everything seems to be fine now. Here are my /etc/apt files: ----8<----preferences----8<---- Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 60 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 ----8<----sources.list----8<---- deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim unstable cvs deb-src http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim unstable cvs ----8<----end----8<---- Adam --- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:29:40 -0800 > From: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: installing non-"stable" packages and software > > Salute to the brave soul :) > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:28:17AM -0800, Adam wrote: > > I duplicated the entries in my sources.list and replaced "stable" > with > > "unstable" in the new entries and everything worked great. > > Hmm, you found this now and running unstable. > > > Gnome 2.0 looks and works much better than the old (probably > > mis-installed) version. > > You are lucky. Running unstable is fun but risky business. > Get insurance like apt_preferences(5), APT-HOWTO or Chapter 6 of my > "Debian Reference" at below URL. > > I am worried about you system. > > Cheers > > Osamu > -- > ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ > +++++ > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: > A8061F32 > .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for > non-developers > : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu > `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social > Contract > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
