where is the Debian multimedia repo?
I can't load the Debian multimedia repository, http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dis...-i386/Packages , anymore in Synaptic. It says "404 Not Found." Did it change its address?
I needed to download lame, and had to get it from another repository ( deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/ ./ ) instead. |
There's a note on the Debian Multimedia website that oldstable (Lenny) is completely broken and not likely to return.
Maybe one of the mirrors will still work??? |
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That's correct. Lenny, is now oldstable. Squeeze is stable. That's why I always track codenames. :D Sounds like somehow he broke the repository (or lost data) for all the Lenny packages. So if you've upgraded to Squeeze, just change your sources.list to track Squeeze, and it should be available. I don't use synaptic, but I can tell you Debian Multimedia works on Squeeze as I have several packages from there.
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In case you're still on Lenny, the maintainer of Debian Multimedia has fixed his repositories for oldstable (Lenny). So you can re-enable them, just make sure the line in your sources.list says either "oldstable" or "lenny".
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Ehh...unless it would force me to use KDE 4 (I don't like it and refuse to use it), I see no reason to stay with Lenny. I just haven't updated my sources.list, because what I have works, more or less. But my system's degrading (perhaps because I've had to turn the computer off a few times due to freeze-ups), and I mean to reinstall it soon. I'll at least look into adding the Squeeze repo.
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But you can always switch to LXDE, gnome, XFCE, or another desktop environment. |
KDE 3.5 worked
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As for Trinity, I hadn't heard of it. |
Well, I do see good reason for why they re-wrote KDE. Though I'm not a programmer, by all accounts it had become a disaster to maintain, especially with how quickly things were moving in the linux kernel. Things like hal have been deprecated for udev, etc. Also, changes in Xorg were starting to cause issues with maintainability. So they made a choice to start from the ground up. In the short term, it was a disaster. But I think in the longer term, it was probably the correct move.
Trinity is basically a fork of the old 3.5 codebase. Or maybe it's more like a maintainer change. KDE is no longer maintaining 3.5, so Trinity sprung up to take the old code and keep it current. Though if you look at their roadmap, they still have to tackle the udev problem... |
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Well, this Trinity looks promising... |
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I'm downloading Trinity and will try it soon. If Trinity is a KDE and not merely a KDE-like desktop, can I have Trinity and KDE 3.5 installed on the system simultaneously as two separate window managers (until I decide whether I like Trinity), or will there be a conflict? If I need to uninstall KDE 3.5 before installing KDE Trinity, this will be more complicated than I thought. |
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