Yup! got it. I attached my sources.list file in the very first message of the thread. I would like to have suggestions on the same. Also, I have installed few packages from tarballs, as my realtek r8101 ethernet driver, skype. That's all!
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2015 11:39:55 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > thanks dude ! i upgraded my driver. But can you tell why some packages > > break after updating to newer version and still debian stable version is > > named so. > > infact after updating java.. libreoffice4 failed and i had to install > > libreoffice5 from jessie backports. > > Is this normal or and issue? > > Thanks for the help! > > There is not enough detail here, but it is probably something to do with > the > fact that you have jessie backports in your sources list. If you stick to > Jessie, and only Jessie, things won't break after updating to a newer > version. In fact, things normally won't update to a newer version. > Basically, Stabel only gets security updates. > > I personally have never had a problem with backports, but you don't say how > you are using backpprts or how you have got them pinned. And have you any > packages installed from tarballs, or otherwise not in Debian's repos? > > You might want to sort out your security repos. > > Lisi > > -- Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006
