Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:39 +, darkestkhan wrote: > I would say go with Wheezy +1 I installed stable (squeeze) and than upgraded to testing (wheezy), I just kept X from stable. What for other distros is called 'stable' IMO isn't that stable as Debian testing. I should have installed testing

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/2 Paul Johnson : > I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. > I'm not new in Linux, just Debian.  And I'm still having trouble > understanding some of the terminology. > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key pro

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Milne
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 15:41 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. And > > since the kernel included with S

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 15:41 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a new

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R.  And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a newer

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-06-02 15:41:22 Paul Johnson wrote: >I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer >versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. http://www.iguanasuicide.net/node/4 Using pinning, it's fairly easy to tell APT to keep as much as possible from stable

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 02 iun 11, 15:41:22, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I *think* pinning might be the right way to fix this, but I have not > found a configuration that would install updates from Wheezy when I > want them and take them from Squeeze when I don't. For example, > Squeeze still has the two editions of t

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 4:41 PM, "Paul Johnson" wrote: > > I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. > I'm not new in Linux, just Debian. And I'm still having trouble > understanding some of the terminology. > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer >