On Wednesday 23 October 2013 10:57:52 Philipp Gröne wrote: Thanks, Philipp
for your extensive explanations and proposals. Interesting, this list: > This was generated by http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ , a pretty cool site > which will generate you a /etc/apt/sources.list . However, I am ignorant as far as repository name, description, repository homepage, How to, PPGkeys is concerned APT URL xxrepository.com %r main contrib what would I use for repository? Is the created sources.list of the site mentioned mailed to me? For the time being I used your proposed > sudo synaptic update and wait until it is done before I come to > sudo synaptic -t unstable install lyx Wolfgang > Hi there! > > Try this > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main non-free contrib > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list. > > This was generated by http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ , a pretty cool site > which will generate you a /etc/apt/sources.list . > > Are you aware about the Debian release policy? ########### yes > > Your are mixing two versions of Debian, stable (i.e. Wheezy) and > unstable (i.e. Sid). > The Packages in Wheezy won't get any updates except security fixes, > while Sid contains packages which are developed continously - this > means, more bugs, but also newer version numbers. > > I don't know how to do this in synaptic, but you need to specify the > version APT should get a given package from. Else it will use the > default which is wheezy(stable) in your case. > > So try the following commands: > > sudo synaptic update > sudo synaptic -t unstable install lyx > > Hope this helped. > > Greetings! > Ph. > > P.S.: Is there a reason why you use stable? I've found Debian testing > (Jessie) stable enough for everything I want to do. (I've never run into > a bug). Then you won't have the issue of outdated packages. > ######### actually not. Just: Never change a running system. But I need lyx2.0.6 since I have documents made with it and it is not in stable.
