Hello, can you please stop top-posting? (See e.g. http://idallen.com/topposting.html for some reasoning.)
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:18:00PM +0100, lauren wrote: > hi and thanks so much for trying to help > > i tried what you said but got: > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 : Depends: linux-base (>= > 2.6.36-1~experimental.1) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed > Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>= > 2.6.36) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed > E: Broken packages ah, try apt-get -t experimental install linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 > so it isn't installed > > also i didn't have a /etc/apt/preferences file so i created it ... is > that correct? yep Best regards Uwe > On 11/15/2010 10:46 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 04:09:24PM +0100, lauren wrote: >>> i'm sorry but i don't know how to do that kind of upgrade ... will it >>> break the rest of my system? :( >> No, it won't. Just do the following: >> >> # cat>> /etc/apt/preferences<< EOF >> Package: * >> Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental >> Pin-Priority: 102 >> EOF >> >> # echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main">> >> /etc/apt/sources.list >> >> # apt-get update >> >> # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 >> >> This should prevent any unwanted upgrades from experimental and still >> allow you to hand-pick kernels from there. The installation updates one >> additional package that should not hurt you. Other than that running a >> squeeze with .36 should be fine. >> >> Best regards >> Uwe >> > -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org