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I'm running Debian Sarge, newly installed. Added some repos, 'apt-get update' is now ok. Also ran 'apt-get -f install' just to make sure.
In Synaptic I mark dvdrip, message is: depends on transcode but it is not going to be installed.
Marking transcode gives same message concerning libvorbis0.
It seems libvorbis0a is installed, therefore libvorbis0 can not be installed - or some 500 packages will be removed.
I want transcode, what can I do?
(Also I would be interrested in knowing why I can't install both libvorbis - they have different names, these libraries are called from other apps with full name I believe?)
My repos: I took from this list APT repos and removed all that returned error messages w 'apt-get update' (that was most of them).
Originally posted by pingu I'm running Debian Sarge, newly installed. Added some repos, 'apt-get update' is now ok. Also ran 'apt-get -f install' just to make sure.
In Synaptic I mark dvdrip, message is: depends on transcode but it is not going to be installed.
Marking transcode gives same message concerning libvorbis0.
It seems libvorbis0a is installed, therefore libvorbis0 can not be installed - or some 500 packages will be removed.
I want transcode, what can I do?
(Also I would be interrested in knowing why I can't install both libvorbis - they have different names, these libraries are called from other apps with full name I believe?)
My repos: I took from this list APT repos and removed all that returned error messages w 'apt-get update' (that was most of them).
As you can see I can have all the programs installed at the same time. I think what is going on is you still have the libvorbis0 wanting to get in there from stable. You should comment out the lines for stable in your sources list then use dselect update to get apt and dpkg databases in sync again. Now try apt-get -s install transcode dvdrip and see what the output looks like and maybe post it here so we can take a look at it remove the -s if the install lokks good to have it actually do it. Oh and make sure that you comment the debian-marillat stable line not just the stable line for your normal debian repo, get rid of the duplicate lines you have in there as well.
Comment out "unstable" says mhearn
Comment out "stable" says HappyTux ....
OK, I'll try both ways. Right now ftp.nerim.net is unreachable, will retry later on.
While waiting, please enlighten me on this stable/unstable etc thing:
I added "stable" and commented out "unstable" because I want a reasonably stable system. I thought testing and unstable only kept the not-yet-thouroughly -tested things, meaning I should always use stable + optionally testing and/or unstable. If I understand you right, both testing and unstable have complete repos, meaning there is no sense in using more than one, right?
(And now I also see I did a mistake in ftp.nerim.net, commented out the wrong one.)
Some repos use "sarge" which actually is what I have. But this is just a name for latest Debian, not defining "stableness"?
And finally, not that it really matters much, but I'm curious why almost all repos in the list I mentioned earlier didn't work? APT repos
They are supposed to be tested,
Quote:
Repository list (Updated at 6am and 6pm Pacific time daily):
and although it's an unofficial list, apt.org should be reliable?
Debian "stable" means that apt is stable. In other words, everything is guaranteed to be installable. It says nothing about the software inside or how well tested it is. In fact Debian has such ludicrous release cycles that the software in stable is usually pre-historic, and not used by anybody. Stable is used sometimes on servers, but is basically never used on the desktop.
Debian "unstable" is the same as "sarge" at the moment, though soon (or so they say) sarge will become the "stable" branch and "unstable" will become "etch". Debian unstable is constantly updated. Things break, sometimes things are not installable. In the past KDE has been un-operable for a week, and once people were locked out of their own systems are a PAM upgrade went bad. The upside is that it has more recent versions of software.
In case it's not obvious, I'm not a fan of Debian. You either get a choice between an unstable, untested system that's up to date, or a pre-historic version nobody wants to use. It's for this reason a lot of Debian desktop users seem to be migrating to Ubuntu. I personally use Fedora which is similar: there are stable releases every 6-7 months so it's never too far behind, but it is reasonably well tested.
Well, I'm not a Debian-fan either...
Thing is, at home I have modem-connection only so now that I finally got a job I'm installing home-computer using the schools Internet. Meaning I want to install as many apps as possible, I can't drag my home 'puters to work every now and then.
And Debian has bigger repos than Fedora, lots of apps I couldn't find trying FC3.
But I'm installing one Fedora too, either Fedora or LormaLinux haven't decided yet.
So next week I'll be searching .rpm-mirrors.
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