On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:53 -0400, Charles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700 > Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:26:32AM -0400, Charles > > was heard to say: > > > I'm running Debian testing --- in Synaptic I have a bunch of > > > packages which are in the "local or obsolete category". Some have > > > been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install > > > > The local or obsolete category in both aptitude and synaptic > > consists of packages that are installed on your system but aren't > > available from any of the archives you have listed in > > /etc/apt/sources.list. Usually this is because they were removed > > from the archive after you installed them, but it could also come > > about if you removed a repository line from sources.list after > > installing a package. > > Well that would make sense for some of the packages...but among > the list is linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 which I believe is the current > kernel on testing and the whole openoffice.org series ??? > > > This is my sources list ( which seems awfully short). Is there > something missing for Debian testing ? > > > # Security Debian binary archive > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free > > deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org testing main contrib non-free > > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main > deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > > Charles > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpd7X0ACgkQIyN89Z1rCtFBbACeIdAUdt1WMINNqJXfG4FcUk8q > D2cAn0ncoiEtPfLV8PbqvRjhh/83sAgR > =4arv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > FYI: I use these as by basic lines for /etc/apt/sources.list ------------------------------------------------------
# Testing deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib main non-free deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ squeeze/volatile main # deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free # deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib main non-free # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free ------------------------------------------------------- I have commented out the sources (deb-src) lines because I usually don't need them. I also noticed a link to ubuntu which will definitely cause issues as the dependencies are different. If you want to use compatible ubuntu files on a debian system, & there are some, I suggest you either build them yourself from sources or at least put them in a local directory with the correct dependencies also there & add that to the apt sources list. This can easily be managed with pinning. Good Luck! -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org