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Debian SID problem

I just installed SID yesterday thru the testing netinst CD, and I'm having a problem installing the desktop environment. It gives me an error that I need the evolution package, and when I go ahead and try to install this one,it tells me that I'm missing libsoup2.2-7, but which is not avaialable for install.
Any ideas what should I do?

Re: Debian SID problem

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Originally posted by horatiub
I just installed SID yesterday thru the testing netinst CD, and I'm having a problem installing the desktop environment. It gives me an error that I need the evolution package, and when I go ahead and try to install this one,it tells me that I'm missing libsoup2.2-7, but which is not avaialable for install.
Any ideas what should I do?

Try putting a line for testing in your /etc/apt/sources.list then update to refresh the package caches then try the install. You may want to remove the line after you are done installing.

Code:

>$ apt-cache policy libsoup2.2-7

libsoup2.2-7:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 2.2.3-2

  Version table:

    2.2.3-2 0

        990 http://amd64.debian.net testing/main Packages

should I use the deb-src or just deb for testing?

Quote:

Originally posted by horatiub
should I use the deb-src or just deb for testing?

Just the deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free should work nicely then update and try to install.

thank you, I will prolly switch all of them to testing, and stick around on testing for a while, too many problems I had with SID. Gnome freezes, etc...

Just the thread I was looking for. Great job, HappyTux.