On Mar 5, 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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: > > > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main > > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/stable main > > > ############### > > ### TESTING ### > > ############### > > # Testing (Soon to be Lenny) > > #debhttp://http.us.debian.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free > > debhttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free > > # Testing Sources > > deb-srchttp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/testing main contrib non- > > free > > #Testing Security Updates > > #debhttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main contrib non-free > > #deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/testing/updates main > > > debhttp://security.debian.org/stable/updates main > > > How should I have it set? What options should I setup in > > apt_preferences? > > with apt_preferences *not* setup, you are trying to move to etch > here. That's probably what's causing a bunch of stuff to get > removed. With more than one release's repository in your sources.list, > you should set-up apt-preferences with a Default-Release > option. otherwise the apt system will try to move you to the latest > packages available to it. > > > > > In interactive mode for aptitude, what do you recommend doing? > > check apt-preferences. something like > > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > > wpuld be appropriate to run stable. then try again and see what > happens.
I set my default release to testing and was able to get everything working! Thanks for your help Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
