On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > > > > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > > > > packages. > > > > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable > > > > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7. > > > > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I > > > > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel. > > > > I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but > > > I may be totally wrong. > > > > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it > > > > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants > > > > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about > > > > installing ncurses. > > > > Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for > > > building ncurses apps. > > > I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my > > kernel and not install a new one? > > how have you set up your sources.list? and how about apt_preferences? > > might be worth your time to jump into aptitude's interactive mode > (just aptitude, no parameters, on the cli) and marking some packges as > manually installed.
Haven't looked at apt_preferences, but my sources.list looks like: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main ############### ### TESTING ### ############### # Testing (Soon to be Lenny) #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # Testing Sources deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non- free #Testing Security Updates #deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main How should I have it set? What options should I setup in apt_preferences? In interactive mode for aptitude, what do you recommend doing? Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
