On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:07:41 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:14:47 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:55:13 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> What do you think it would be better to completely go with testing. >>> >>> Testing is currently quite stable but there are significant >>> differences between wheezy and squeeze, like the gnome environment. >> >> I think this won't make any difference for me because I will only use >> the base system with xorg and xbmc without any window manager. > > Oh, that will make things easier (in the event you want to go with > testing) :-) > >>> I'm not going to make any comments about pinning because I've never >>> used but just a question: have you considered in using pinning only >>> for the packages you want to be kept for a specific flavour? That is, >>> being more "selective" to avoid additional problems or messing up too >>> many packages. >> >> This sounds good. >> I thought I can do that by installing via "apt-get -t wheezy >> alsa-utils". > > Yes, if you manually specify in that way it's even safer. > > (...) > >> Unfortunately I don't have synaptic. I only have the terminal since I >> don't want to use any window manager for xbmc. > > Aptitude can be a good "replacement" for Synaptic. > >> I can't as well install build-essential. There are many dependencies >> which usually are solved automatically. I think this is something that >> shouldn't be. When I want to install build- essential it asks for >> libc6-dev which depends on libc but a newer version is to be installed: >> >> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FCBUeaVg > > $ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install build-essential > >> It seems as if I made a mess because there already is a libc6 package >> from testing installed. > > Mmm, I can't see such that package available for the backports :-? > >>> Your first plan seems good, it may just need to be polished a bit :-) >> >> Ok, thanks. >> I will try to again maybe with a clean install again. Like that the >> mess with the package dependencies should be gone. > > Wow... no need to re-install :-), just be sure about the steps you're > doing. Whether in doubt, launch aptitude and try from there, it usually > provides insightful information when having to deal with different/mixed > sources.
Thanks again for your help, Camaleón! I now was able to install the backports kernel, nvidia-glx and add wheezy alsa. The packages which I need for building xbmc are most from squeeze, some from backports and some from wheezy. I was just trying to install each package from squeeze. If it didn't work I went for backports but most of them can't be found there so I went for wheezy. Btw what's the difference between linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae and linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae and why are both in the backports repos. I was looking at packages.debian.org but couldn't find any explenation. Is there a place where I could find more infos? Best regards Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jknpuu$o5n$2...@dough.gmane.org
