2007/7/11, kedmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello, I am using a Thinkpad X21 laptop with 384 MB of RAM and a new 40 gig disk. I installed Debian 4.0 (Etch) via the floppy disk install. Installation wa actually really pleasant, especially over the fast network connection. With some work, I got my PCMCIA wifi card to work. Ever since then, my laptop's been stable like a rock, and I had no complaints. It would effortlessly connect to my wifi network and "just work."
yes, just debian :) Anyways, the other night I tried to use "apt-get install" to get
Pidgin. However, it said I needed a long list of libraries that I didn't have. I didn't know that I could install just those developer packages, and instead added "sid" or "unstable" to my sources.list. I ran "apt-get install -f" or something like it, and then Debian basically changed itself to Lenny/Sid. Now the computer boots to command line, instead of automatically going to gnome like it used to. And the wifi card (DWL-650g) is no longer automatically recognized and it can't connect to my wifi network. And I have to reset my router to properly connect via ethernet cable. So this has all been very frustrating.
If did understand correctly, you added an unstable repository to your sources.list, right? 'apt-get- f install' did the rest well, pidgin is in testing too, so you don't need to use the unstable branch I just want to know how to make Debian like it was before, with
Etch. Thanks.
if you want pidgin: 1) remove unstable repository from sources.list 2) add a testing repository to sources.list, apt-get update 3) remove 'unstable' branch packages (apt-show-versions && grep, will help you) 4) apt-get install pidgin don't want pidgin: 1) + 3) 4) apt-get update + reinstall stable version of removed packages -kedmond hope this helps raffaele
