[NBLUG/talk] apt-get issues

[Robert Hayes]

I seem to recall that at some point I mixed stable and unstable packages based 
on my requirements at that time. 

Do you suppose a dist-upgrade would work here, or would I be courting 
disaster?


On Monday 07 August 2006 11:10 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> You have a huge sources.list file there.  For comparison, my sources.list
> file on Debian/testing contains only 6 lines that aren't either comments or
> just blank!
>
> I'd suggest you get rid of (delete or comment out) this block and
> everything
>
> below it:
> > # Experimental
> > # deb http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main
> > contrib non-free
> > # deb-src http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main
> > contrib non-free
>
> But first, be sure to make a backup copy of your sources.list file, just in
> case.
>
> Afterward, run "apt-get update" (so it can clear the database of all
> now-unavailable packages), and see if you can upgrade without it trying to
> remove any essential packages.
>
> If that doesn't work, let us know what kind of output you get with these
> new sources.
>
> If it works, but you lose something you really wanted, you can try
> re-adding sections one at a time, checking after each change that "apt-get
> upgrade" still works like it's supposed to.