As we published on October 21, 2011, we have decided to create a section called: Your opinion counts <° Linux, where we will publish the emails that some users have sent proposing topics of interest through the contact form.
Well, another section has just been born called: Clarifying doubts <° Linux, where we will answer some of the questions of those users who come to us, with any questions in general.
We will publish here those that we believe should be of interest to everyone, as is the case of this one that a user called: Erythrym.
Erythrym wrote:
Hello, I have been following the blog for a few days, and it is very complete, but I have a question.
I've been a user of LMDE practically since it came out, because it seemed much more attractive than Linux Mint, which was the distro I used before. The only thing I don't like is that most of the packages are out of update.
Could you recommend a stable and updated list of repositories?
Is that the last time I tried with the SID packages, when updating the xorg I ended up annoying the graphical interface ...
Thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience!
And first of all congratulations on this fantastic blog!
<° Linux answer back:
Thank you very much for your praise, we are very happy that our effort to maintain this blog is useful for other users.
While it is an advantage to have custom repositories in LMDE, at the same time we have (as a barrier) to depend on the updates that the team of Linux Mint incorporate them.
First of all, you have to keep in mind that LMDE does not use Sid's repositories, but those of Debian Testing y debian-squeeze. It is assumed that in the repositories Inbound, they must be entering new packages daily from the mirrors of Debian Testing, but this is not safe.
You could directly use the repositories of Debian, but it is very likely that when doing so there is some dependency error with the packages that it includes LMDE.
You have two options: Either you risk using the Debian Testing repositories to have more updated packages, or you wait patiently for the updates to come in from the LMDE repositories. You are free to choose. I leave you the Debian repositories:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
AFAIK Linux Mint Debian Edition, according to its own documentation, is 100% compatible with Debian Testing. With what does not happen that is with Ubuntu; LMDE warns that Ubuntu repositories will not work there.
Thanks for the reply! I have to say that I thought I already had testing, but apparently not, since after adding the repositories a lot of updates appeared, although they give me certain problems, since they force me to uninstall packages such as mint-meta-common or the mint-meta-debian, which I don't think is advisable to remove them. In addition to this, before updating the xorg I screwed up the graphical interface, so now I'm a bit scared in case I screw it up again. It shouldn't give me trouble, right?
Exact. If you want to keep your LMDE running smoothly, I recommend that you use the LMDE repositories. Maybe if you have Testing, but LMDE's not Debian's as such.
I don't mind having some other problem as long as I have a solution, in fact it is one of the reasons why I like Linux more than Windows, to be able to face the machine and learn how to correct the errors that it may have, but I also do not want to cause damage irreversible and having to reinstall the operating system every two by three ...
In the case of the packages I mentioned earlier, are they relevant? Because the libreoffice update also tells me to remove them ...
Those packages are meta-packages, which in turn may (or may not) uninstall other packages. I uninstalled them without major problems.
Hi Elav. Fantastic, I like the new sections and answering this particular question: the LMDE repositories. However (and may Courage forgive me!), I am not yet an expert user and I don't know what to do with the repositories that you put here. I'm scared to touch that because I've already had problems that force me to re-install everything from scratch. Well, in any case, thank you very much.
Do not worry. Let's see. The repositories that I put in the post are the ones you have to use in case you don't want to get your packages from the repositories LMDE and update to the rhythm of Debian. In other words, if what you want is that the system does not get corrupted and continues to work as it should (although it does not update as often), you have to wear these. If what you want is to update constantly (although some package related to LMDE go to hell) then you use the ones I put in the post.
apt-get -t testing install banshee
Reading package list ... Done
Creating dependency tree
Reading the status information ... Done
Do not can instal some pack. This may mean that
you asked for an impossible situation or, if you are using the distribution
unstable, that some necessary packages have not been created or have
been moved out of Incoming.
The following information can help resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Breaks: gcc-4.4 (<4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 will be installed
and it happened to me with all the packages that I want to install from testing. How can I solve it?, Thanks in advance and regards