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I am using bonzi linux wich is a barebones version of debian. I have it installed on hard drive ,has KDE desktop and it works fine but I cant get apt to update keeps saying done but does not update. also when tring to install any thing for example (apt-get install kdeyoys) says can not find packeges I am new to apt and dont realy know how to procede to fix this. Any Help apreciated, Thanks efi360.
efi@Box2:~$ su
Password:
Box2:/home/efi# apt-get update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Box2:/home/efi#
This is what is in there but I dont know if it is what is supposed to be there, I never looked at /etc/apt sources.list when i tried knoppix or kanotix is it correct ? Thanks for help
You are using one cd, so an apt-get update is useless unless you obtain an updated cd. These packages may reside on cd2, cd3, etc if you have them. If you don't have them and have a decent net-connection, let us know.
Thanks for all the help
bonzai linux only comes with one cd but i did what was sugested took out # and added kde version and added a couple sources now apt is working. but am getting error
would like to lern more about sources. Can i add sources for unstable and testing or will things break
There's a site that has a lot of "private" packages - ones that aren't on the Debian site. Let me see if i can remember it. Something like people.debian.org or whatever. It has stuff like the newest KDE and Gnome for Woody, instead of moving to Sarge or Sid. You might want to add the blackdown site for java. There's a Debian tree on it. Good for easy upgrades.
Sarge is not actually a bad choice right now, as its nearly ready to be released as stable, which will put Woody on the old "frozen" list, like Potato. Keep the security site, as any security updates will still come in for packages that don't get upgraded with apt-get upgrade.
By the way, since you have a testing source now, if you want to actually do the upgrade (not a bad plan), then you should do it in this order:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
(then you can apt-get clean if you wnat to clear the var/dpkg list for disk space)
Some would advocate skipping the apt-get upgrade and going straight to dist-upgrade. I reccomend you do as I have layed out. When I have installed from the stable floppies (I usually do a network install of the base system and then upgrade to testing right away and then add my extras like "X" and KDE, etc), I have found that an upgrade to a newer 'version' like testing or unstable goes better with fewer broken packages that way.
I think apt crapped out on you because the stable source was listed in order before the testing source. If you switch them, it may resolve fine. I have done that from unstable and testing. However its not necessary to do it that way.
Your line for KDE is okay, you know if you want 3.1.4, but usually, KDE gets into Debian unstable in short order. If you have their deb source for updating KDE, sometimes there are version conflicts and you'll go with unresolved dependancies for weeks or months (if it upgrades only partly, you may even lose what you have with nothing to replace it. Better to not mix sources too much. If you want 3.2, you'll have to point to the right folder on the server. If its in sarge, forget about it.
here's my /etc/apt/sources.list for my Sarge install:
I haven't added contrib and non-free yet (new install). Notice that I have two servers listed. One is a fast mirror here in Canada, so I have that listed first. I have a cable connection so I may as well get the most I can out of it. If you wnat to take a while and find a fast mirror (or two) from where you're at, download apt-spy and run it for a while (read the man page first so you don't spend the next 24+ hours checking the mirrors all over the world). It'll help you generate a sources.list from fast servers. Don't bother changing the security source. testing is not updated for security bugs. Only stable and unstable are.
Thanks vectordrake,
I copied and pasted your sources in my file then did the update, upgrade. dist-upgrade and now I have kde3.1.5 all works good and I installed all of the bell & whistels I wanted for kde , mozilla ,xmms etc...
Now all I have to do is figure out how to get my other windows partition hda1 and second hd =hdb1 showing in kwickdisk so I can mount it and get to my music for xmms, the only mount point showing is linux hdb6, cd's & floppy any ideas on that one
I am having an error similar to one you halped some one with earlier, except I don't quite understand how you are saying to fix it. I am running Kanotix on a 6 year old laptop. Synaptic and apt-get are giving me the following error:
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing subversion (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Is there a relatively easy way for a person with limited knowledge of command line to fix it?
Thanx
Wren
I figured out how to fix my apt-get issue. The problem was that I added some cd iso's to the synaptic package list. Something on the cd's must have conflicted. Once I used the synaptic settigs and took the cd's off the list, the problem was solved.
Wren
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