On Sunday 04 October 2015 13:29:32 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > 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. Read: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
Then the following might be helpful - but beware, they are not official. But neither is the mess you have at the moment! (http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-sources-list-generator.html) This looks great, but didn't work for me. http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ Out of date, but works fine if used carefully. Here is my wheezy sources.list: ----------------------------------- deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You need the first, third and fifth (having changed wheezy to jessie). src is up to you. Use anything else with caution and having researched the caveats. Lisi > 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
