If I use testing with the backports.org repository, will "apt-listbugs" work on any package I try to install from backports?
I'm not expecting to use backports a lot, but there may be a case where I need a newer version of a program, from unstable.
I keep on trying to upgrade iceweasel on Jessie for a few months now and apt-listbugs always finds some scary bug so I pin the package. About 3 times I pin the package, wait a month or so, delete the apt-listbugs file and try again and it finds another grave bug. Right now it's this one:
Code: Select allgrave bugs of iceweasel (31.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 → 38.3.0esr-1~deb8u1) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #789955 - devscripts: [bts] "bts show" command displays error: (process:29614): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
So I see my iceweasel version is "31.8.0esr-1~deb8u1" now and it looks a bit old. Is there any security issues I need to be aware of?
Backports are not only drivers? And why backports are disabled by default?
Also: What are debug backports, and may I install them - will they work?
I tried to use debdelta for an upgrade, but it only worked with the main debian and security repositories, and did not work with the backports repository (which is where the largest files, specifically openoffice.org, are for my system). Is there a way to set up debdelta to be used with backports? I tried editing the /etc/debdelta/sources.conf file to include it, but this did not work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running Debian Lenny. I'm not pleased with kde4 so I'm going to be staying with Lenny. But I'm really looking to upgrade the old Openoffice 2.4 to 3.x. I've got the backports entry in my apt sources.list file. And I have downloaded the packages list. I'm just wondering if anyone else has installed the OO.o from backports? Does it work good and does it futz up anything from the stable install?
On a side, does anyone know where to get an updated Kopete. The version in Lenny is old and won't connect to Yahoo chat anymore (I guess they changed the protocol again.
These are really the only two reasons I messed with KDE4 anyhow. Kopete isn't a big deal because i can always use Yahoo messenger online anyhow, but really want to see how OO.o 3.x works.
For the 2nd time in a year. I really need v3.xx because 2.4 breaks formatting when opening v3 files. Why did i go back to 2.4 ? 3.1 was slower with calc. Now I'm stuck with 2.4 because of the ongoing stupidity in backports.org.
# aptitude install openoffice.org -t lenny-backports
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
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If I install (say) Iceweasel from Lenny Backports, do I need to un-install the standard Lenny Iceweasel first, or will the new one overwrite/upgrade the old one? And- I understand pinning I think, but nobody explains what the * in the line:Package: * means. Does it mean all packages installed from the release specified in the line Pin: release a=lenny-backportsor do I need to specify each package in it's own entry (in /etc/apt/preferences)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe Debian Project is proud to announce that the backports service, previously available at [URL].. is now an official Debian service and will be available from backports.debian.org Backports are packages from the testing distribution recompiled for the current stable (or even oldstable) to provide users of the stable distribution with new versions of some packages, like the Linux kernel, the Iceweasel browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, without sacrificing the general stability of the system.
The archive currently has packages backported for the Lenny distribution (how many?), but the infrastructure to accept packages for the upcoming Squeeze release is already in place, to allow Debian Installer images to configure the backports repository by default without generating errors on user systems. The service for Squeeze will be enabled at a later date, after the release.
Because of some limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the debian-backports list, which will now also move on lists.debian.org.
I'd like to include the backports repo and the backports kernel in a live cd. I copied the debian-backports file from /usr/share/live-helper/examples/source to config/chroot_sources(as debian-backports.chroot and debian-backports.binary) and fixed the first problem (had to change "etch" to "lenny" in the files.)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for correct backports repository for Lenny?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried to install nvidia drivers & when I tried aptitude update it says that 'backports.debian .org' Release file has expired ignoring......How long does it normally take to update?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter adding the backports from 8/Jessie to a 7/Wheezy sources.list and running aptitude update, I get these odd error messages. What is going on?
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python-cffi-backend-api-min
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package python3-cffi-backend-api-min
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
While I've been using Debian for various years, I have never actually used Stable. No Stable means no Backports, and I have a doubt about the latter. After reading Backports's documentation and the APT Preferences's manual page, I understand that, as of Squeeze, a backport must be installed manually, and that already installed backports are automatically updated. Also, because Backports archives have a pin-priority of 1, one cannot update all installed packages to the versions available in Backports.
I guess that one could achieve it by giving the Backports archive a pin-priority of 991. However, using the whole Backports repository is discouraged everywhere, and I don't really know why. How serious are these warnings? Does it cause a dependency Hell or is it just a warning for novice users?
I see that the backports now is officiel. My question is rather simpel: Is it possible to upgrade with (and how to) the backported packages without to much work? Is is needed to install all backported packages individually? I want to upgrade to any backported package with the command:
apitutude safe-upgrade - if it is possible.
I'm new to Debian, but have used Ubuntu so I'm relatively familiar with APT. Ubuntu doesn't have backports, though, and I can't figure this out. I've checked the documentation for the answer, and I'm hoping that I'm just overlooking something simple.
I'm running lenny, and I want to install the Empathy instant messenger that's in lenny-backports (v. 2.26.2-1). I already have the stable package installed, and here's what happens when I try to upgrade:
michael@archimedes:~$ sudo apt-get -t lenny-backports install empathy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
empathy is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 118 not upgraded.
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So, as per Arch Linux's wiki, I tried to make some optimisations to the intel driver through setting it up in Xorg.conf (or as advised by that wiki article, in '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf' ), but I've ran into trouble enabling DRI3. Here's my current config file:
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  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
  Driver   "intel"
  Option   "AccelMethod" "SNA"
  Option   "DRI"  "3"
  Option   "TearFree"  "true"
EndSection
So far everything works fine, I haven't seen any noticeable tearing, nor did I had any problems with any graphics-intensive programs I run, but there's a slight problem with the DRI3 part as indicated by Xorg's logs:
Code: Select all[Â Â 26.556] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[Â Â 26.556] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[Â Â 26.556] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[Â Â 26.556] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[Â Â 26.616] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Haswell (gen7.5, gt2) backend
[Â Â 26.616] (==) intel(0): Backing store enabled
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First of all it still mentions the DRI2 driver, is this supposed to happen, or did something go wrong? Also it complains that it cannot find a file, which I can't figure out which package it belongs to, and taking a quick search around the interwebs hasn't produced anything useful...
The IGP is the CPU, which is actually a i5-4460... which according to Wikipedia it has a HD Graphics 4600 GPU.
I have just installed Debian Lenny and was trying to upgrade the installed packages from the packages.debian.org site. when i asked synaptic to add the downloaded packages the would not appear, but when i checked the .xsessions file there are entries saying that the packages were being ingnored because they were either different versions, the MD5 did not match or even "can't find pkg". i have to use the local library to download the packages because i dont have an internet connection at home.
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On Debian repo I found virtualbox-ose packages there. What will be the difference in operation/function between their packages and the packages download on virtualbox.org website?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am working on a project which targets both 32 and 64 bit architectures at the moment. My system is amd64. I added i386 architecture using this guide. However, my problem is
Code: Select allapt-get install package-name:i386
prompts the removal of currently installed packages (amd64 arch.) which is the problem.
Code: Select allReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   Â
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 libportaudio0:i386
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Some of the packages I am talking about are
-libegl1-mesa-dev:i386
-libportaudio-dev:i386
Now, as of now, I want to carry out the compilation using 32 bit libraries, however, I really don't want to install 64bit version of all prerequisites each time I switch the compilation from 32 bit to 64. Is there any way to have both architectures at the same time?
I would like to try to upgrade to kde 4.5 from the backport repositories, but I would like to know two things first:
1) how can I revert to 4.4 if things fail (there have been some errors been reported at the ppa launchpad)?
2) will there be problems with upgrading to 10.10 when I use the backport repositories?
Just wondering if anyone is using the Maverick kernel backport with Lucid? Just wanting to know how stable it is.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have been trying to install iceweasel 3.5.16 from lenny-backports , but when i run the commandapt-get -t lenny-backports install iceweaselit just installs iceweasel 3i also tried it with iceweasel=3.5.16 at the end and it just said it cant find 3.5.16, but i know the package is there cos iv seen it on the websiteI have this line at the bottom of my sources.list filedeb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports mainand if it makes any differnence im running lenny on a powerpc computer (well it's actually a wii)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know this type of upgrade question is asked regularly so I apologise in advance if its annoying.
Im currently running 12.2, and Im wondering when 13.1 may be available? have there been many problems with 13.0? I've been working quite alot so havent been checking in that often lately.
also, would my old .tgz packages work with 13.1, or would I need to rebuild them as .txz?
Should I include lucid-proposed and lucid-backports in my updates?
View 3 Replies View RelatedFor example, if I choose to install Fedora 11, then never upgrade to Fedora 12,13, etc. Will newer packages work on the old Fedora 11, or will I have to constantly upgrade to be able to use newer RPM packages?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhy don't any java6 jdk and jre packages work in Ubuntu 10.4?
View 8 Replies View RelatedAre there any deb packages for sopcast to work on ubuntu 10.10?
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhen i tried to update Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, somehow the installation stopped. Thinking that the installation was completed i restarted my desktop, only to find out that i have over 600 broken packages. Fixing the packages don't seem to work because he is unable to correct the dependencies. My guess is that i now have half Ubuntu 10.10 and half Ubuntu 11.04
View 1 Replies View RelatedI dont know how to install backports! I have tried everything to get my usb adapter to connect but it still dosent recognize my home network! How do I install backports and headers? (ubuntu 10.04 amd 64) [URL]
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having some confusion.For development work I needed following packages
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bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial build-essential make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg62-dev iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml libx11-dev bison flex
I until now was using them on a 32 bit system.Ubuntu 10.04. Here I am switching the computer to 64 bit and want to build same environment how ever my confusion is above packages are approximately 430 Mb and are present in /var/cache/apt/archives on my 32 bit system.Can I transfer those to my 64 bit system and use or there is a difference in packages for 32 bit and 64 bit and I should be using a fresh install on the 64 bit system.
