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I would like to install Xorg(backport) and GNOME from standard stable debian repo. Is this possible? Does anyone have any kind of experience with such a situation.
Basically Xorg(backport) + GNOME(stable) on base install of Debain(stable).
I would like to install Xorg(backport) and GNOME from standard stable debian repo. Is this possible? Does anyone have any kind of experience with such a situation.
Basically Xorg(backport) + GNOME(stable) on base install of Debain(stable).
Thanks
Looks like Backports.org has at least Xorg 6.8 for stable there you may want to do more checking than I did to see if they have 6.9 there so with a line in sources.list for it you should be able to get both installed.
Looks like Backports.org has at least Xorg 6.8 for stable there you may want to do more checking than I did to see if they have 6.9 there so with a line in sources.list for it you should be able to get both installed.
Thanks for the info. How do I have sure that GNOME is installed from Backport and not from Stable. DO I have to comment by stable source line in sources.lst file,add the backports.org source line and then do apt-get update apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base gnome-core??
Thanks for the info. How do I have sure that GNOME is installed from Backport and not from Stable. DO I have to comment by stable source line in sources.lst file,add the backports.org source line and then do apt-get update apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base gnome-core??
Thanks
That sounds reasonable you may want to add -s for a simulation to see what it will do first then proceed with the install.
I installed Xorg from the backports.org. And Gnome from stable repo. Also I had to install the xfonts-base from the stable repo. So is there any possibility that my debian system will break if I contine to download packaged from stable repo from here onwards.
I installed Xorg from the backports.org. And Gnome from stable repo. Also I had to install the xfonts-base from the stable repo. So is there any possibility that my debian system will break if I contine to download packaged from stable repo from here onwards.
Will I be able to give commands like
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
without breaking any packages.??
Has anyone tried this before?
Many people use backports every day without problems you should be okay. When you upgrade/dist-upgrade everything should work as before only packages which have been upgraded on the backport site should be upgraded or security updates assuming you have that in the sources.list will be installed the packages you got from backports are built for stable and should cause no problems.
Many people use backports every day without problems you should be okay. When you upgrade/dist-upgrade everything should work as before only packages which have been upgraded on the backport site should be upgraded or security updates assuming you have that in the sources.list will be installed the packages you got from backports are built for stable and should cause no problems.
Ok, I am been using GNOME(stable) with Xorg(backports). Also is it ok if I have both the repo added to the sources.lst file? Here is my sources.lst file that I am currently using.
Code:
#For-Packages from CD-ROM
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
#Stable
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sarge main contrib
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sarge main contrib
#Testing
#deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib
#deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib
#Unstable
#deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sid main contrib
#deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sid main contrib
#Backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
#For Security patches
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
Please let me know if I need to comment the backports.org repo???
It should do no harm leaving it in there but if wish to receive no updated or new packages from there then by all means comment it out. Your packages that you have already installed will simply stay at the version they are now.
I installed Xorg from the backports.org. And Gnome from stable repo. Also I had to install the xfonts-base from the stable repo. So is there any possibility that my debian system will break if I contine to download packaged from stable repo from here onwards.
Will I be able to give commands like
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
without breaking any packages.??
Has anyone tried this before?
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