On Sun, 15 May 2016 15:39:03 +0200, Emninger wrote: > Am Sun, 15 May 2016 12:00:01 +0000 > schrieb Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de>: > [...] > >> As I already mentioned in an earlier message, I need the >> non-free catalyst fglrx driver, which for reasons beyond my >> knowledge is currently not available in neither testing nor >> unstable. So I pull that one from Jessie.
<snip> > Just one practical question: I notice the fglrx problem as well. How > can i add it to my repositories? Reactivating Jessie? > > There would be the way to download it manually from the debian site and > install with gdebi or apt, wouldn't it? In principle, I see (at least) three viable ways. First option would be the one you mentioned: Manually download the Jessie packages (it's more than one!). I consider this the most messy and least convenient method. The second method would be to leave both Jessie and Ascii in sources.list. However, to make this foolproof one might have to additionally edit the apt preferences file, hence digging down the apt-pinning rabbit hole. This option has the charm that you could leave it that way and benefit pick the best of both releases. However, I'm afraid I'd probably mess up big time, if I tried to lead you trough this from just the top of my head, right now. The third method (which I would prefer) starts out like #2, but after you installed the fglrx drivers you would disable (comment out) the Jessie repositories again. I think the last one is the easiest and safest way to get the drivers. A perfectionist could argue, that additionally one should leave enabled the non-free branch of jessie-security to be on the safe side. But I guess now I started nit-picking at a subatomic level. :P TL;DR: Enable Jessie; install fglrx et al.; disable Jessie; cigar. :D > TIA & have a nice sunday :) You are very welcome, and the same to you. :) Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
