After installing Openoffice, I commented out lines of backports. When I have installed transmission, I did not commented out lines of backports. Normally, I install the packages with the following command : aptitude install "package".
Freeman | there is no apt.conf file at /etc/apt/. However the following files are located at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ : 00trustcdrom 15update-stamp 70debconf 01autoremove 20archive 99update-notifier 10periodic 50unattended-upgrades I tried to install amarok, but it is showing various conflicts. I have decided not to install unstable or any other packages for that matter. I am satisfied with the Debian as it is. Thank u for all of your replies. vishnuvardhan. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <20100127131300.ge6...@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> Do I need to create a prefernce file ?... > > > >These are tricks to fool APT. > > Not "fool". Apt, by default, treats all remote repositories in one of two > manners "get every package from there" (priority 500) or "get only the > packages I request from there" (priority 1 -- backports and experimental). > > Using pinning, you can communicate to apt your actual preferences of > repositories. In my case, try to get all packages from > stable+security+volatile, but if you need them to satisfy dependencies or I > request a specific version you can pull from backports, > testing+volatile+security, unstable, and experimental in that order. > > >These do not solve the package version > >dependency issue. If it happen to be running, you are just lucky. > > Apt/aptitude will try as much as possible to make sure the various > dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied. If they fail, you > could > be in trouble. If they succeed but something still breaks, you are unlucky > (please file a bug). > > Preferences don't solve package dependency issues in isolation, but > aptitude > can use the priorities when ranking it's solutions and deciding which > packages > to upgrade. Once you start pulling in packages from > testing/unstable/experimental, you will have to execute a full-upgrade more > often, and provide a bit a manual guidance to aptitude, but that's to be > expected. > > >If you can locally backport package, you should try it to be safe. > > I don't like doing this because I don't like having to provide my own > security > support. > > >If > >not, it is best not to do this kind of mixed system to avoid problem. > > Having run a mixed desktop and 2 mixed servers since before Lenny was > released, I disagree with this statement. It allows the packages whose > development I'm not currently following is remain dependable (pulled from > stable or at least testing) while letting me pull packages with new, shiny > features that I must try from unstable or experimental. > > I really do find it to be a best-of-both-worlds situation. My > configuration > is documented at http://iguanasuicide.net/node/4. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ >
