Re: adding testing repositories

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:40 -0500, tom wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:25 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:42 -0500, tom wrote:
Is it recommended to add testing repositories to package list in
Synaptic for lenny?
Tom



Not by me. See this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html

You add a different repo to your sources list to add a source of
needed/wanted packages not in the "official" repos: For example debian
mulitmedia or perhaps you have your own "local" repo. Or you change
your sources to point to a different branch to upgrade to that branch:
For example, you wanted to upgrade to testing (see my link above, not
recommended) or you wanted to upgrade to unstable.

You do not add a source for testing or unstable so you can "pull"
packages down to add to Lenny. Of course you *could* do that, but you
did ask if it was recommended.

HTH

OK. Time to get serious. I installed lenny stable thinking it would
have LiVES on it. I was using Ubuntu 8.04, which LiVES was not able to
run on. Now, it appears LiVES is part of the unstable release of
debian?

So, should I try to get an .iso file and create a CD of the unstable
release, instead of lenny?
Tom

No. You don't "officially" install Sid. You install stable. You then
upgrade using apt-get or aptitude upgrade. See 3.1.11 of the FAQS I
linked for you above. I am not sure you are ready for Sid, but then,
neither was I when I did it. If you have a working system in stable, I
recommend you upgrade, the full-upgrade to testing and then go to Sid,
but I think you best bet right now is to do a base install of stable,
then an upgrade to sid, then run tasksel and select "Graphical desktop
environment" to get X and gnome up and running.

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