A month ago I attempted to install Debian testing amd64 on a new hard drive. Unfortunately I messed up the window manager and could not repair the problem even after several days of poking around. I decided to put my Jaunty hard drive back in and do a complete reinstall later.
Later is now. I put the new hard drive in the Thinkpad T61 this morning and installed testing. This time I did it as a netinst. It took only two hours. One problem I noticed previously was that Nautilus was messed up. You could not create bookmarks, for example. And clicking on Preferences crashed it completely. After reading the bug reports I gather that the problem is dependencies that don't match yet. I find the current situation with Nautilus very annoying. I'd like to install an older version that will work. The version that came with testing is 2.26.3. I note that my desktop (Intrepid) has 2.24.1. I tried to use Synaptic to force a version, but the checkbox is grayed out. I am guessing that it is grayed out because the respositories I have enabled have only the current version 2.26.3. The repositories I currently have are: deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian squeeze main non-free contrib debsrc http://debian.osuosl.org/debian squeeze main non-free contrib deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib plus the two security repos I recall that the installer defaulted to the main server for the United States, but the osuosl mirror was listed as an option. I'm glad I chose it - damn fast. I think I need to add another repo to get other versions of Nautilus, but I'm too new to the Debian way of things to figure out which one. Are there any Debian users here who can give me a clue? Or tell me that I am as messed up as Nautilus? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
