Any of you Knoppix users out there done an apt-get install of anything,
and had it totally get in a knot? I like having all the latest debian
features in Knoppix, but being able to install *anything* at all would
be really nice.
Any hints?
I'm currently learning more about apt than I ever wanted
yeah I have had a similar experience.
what sources.list are you using? I think it helps to trim it as much as
possible and install only packages with as few dependencies as possible.
For example - it survives getting evolution, but doesn't survive getting
other gnome type packages - I have forgotte
also,
this might be useful
HOWTO upgrade to debian unstable
http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251
dave
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This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
>I like having all the latest debian
>features in Knoppix, but being able to install *anything* at all would
>be really nice.
Sounds like your after Debian unstable
Cheers,
Chris
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Thanks guys, I'll try those ideas (below). One thing I've found useful
is to force certain versions of packages to install. eg when you try to
install package foo, it'll give an error similar to:
package foo requires bar1.3, but bar1.2 is available
I then do
apt-get install bar=1.2
(notice equ
> apt-get install bar=1.2
>
> (notice equals) to force bar1.2 to install. This usually causes further
> dependency problems, in which case you'll need to do the same again for
> another package (very RedHat'ish ;-) ). Eventually you'll get to a
> situation we're you need to remove the current ve