On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>> From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:20:25 -0500 (EST)
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>>
>>> Could you post a copy of your sources.list file so we can make sure it
>>> looks OK.
>>
>> Glad you asked -- it's giving me fits.
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> Wow--that's quite a list! Do you realize that with each unofficial repository
> that you add you increase the probability of corrupting the system?
Sure, but the only one that's not commented out and not from ubuntu.com is
the one for bmpx. xmms has a broken title parser, and beep-media-player is
illegibly tiny, so they both suck in different ways. I'm hoping to find a
xmms with fixed title parsing, or bmpx that allows resizing.
> By the way, you don't have to add a repository just to install a *.deb
> package.
Yeah, if I can find them. I've done that in some cases. BTW, which Debian
version is Ubuntu 5.10 closest to?
> Packages can be downloaded and installed with "sudo dpkg -i package.deb".
> That way you don't add an entire repository that could contain some
> conflicts with your system (e.g. glibc) when you only need one or two
> packages from that repository (e.g. flash, libdvdcss2, java, etc.) Note
> that the dpkg way of installing packages will report but not automatically
> install dependencies. Dependencies will have to be installed manually via
> apt-get.
I think that's the way rpm would behave too, about the missing dependencies.
Except rpm would not do the install without --nodeps or similar, IIRC.
> Sometimes online repositories get flooded with traffic and are not
> responsive when you attempt to do apt-get update or download a package
> from them. The wine repository is one of those--especially during the days
> following a new wine release. Do not let the errors reported by
> synaptic/apt lead you to believe that something is wrong with your
> configuration. It is just that the repository is temporarily unavailable.
When I try to do something nonstandard, though, the error is something like
"duplicate entry". Synaptic complains before doing squat and won't update.
apt-get will update, then complains.
> If you do wish to use so many repositories, you may want to look into
> apt-pinning. It is a way to prioritize repositories so that apt will know
> what to do if the same version of a package is found in more than one place.
Noted. Thanks.
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