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me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install mintupdate-debian
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "mintupdate-debian"
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me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install emacs
> Couldn't find package "emacs". However, the following
> packages contain "emacs" in their name:
> emacsen-common
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I've been using vanilla/GNOME Ubuntu for a few years on my laptop, and for about 6 months have been running another box with Mint. After this week installing katya on the other box and natty on my laptop (both went well), I decided it was time to try LMDE and rolling releases on my laptop.
I clonezilla-ed my natty install, then booted LMDE from the 201012 DVD. It found my partitions: I formatted /boot and /, keeping swap and /home. After install, LMDE restarted, without too many errors (e.g., GNOME is annoyed that it can't find hamster-applet).
I first tried to install emacs, since I'm logging what I'm doing as I install (and because I do pretty much everything else in emacs anyway :-), but
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me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install emacs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
anthy-common{a} emacs emacs23{a} emacs23-bin-common{a} emacs23-common{a} emacsen-common{a} libanthy0{a} libgd2-noxpm{a}
libm17n-0{a} libotf0{a} m17n-contrib{a} m17n-db{a}
0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 103 MB will be used.
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Setting up libanthy0 (9100h-6) ...
Setting up libgd2-noxpm (2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-5) ...
Setting up libotf0 (0.9.11-1) ...
Setting up libm17n-0 (1.6.1-1) ...
Setting up m17n-db (1.6.1-2) ...
Setting up m17n-contrib (1.1.11-1) ...
E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/emacs23/emacs23-common_23.2+1-5.1_all.deb: 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80]
I next installed the System76 driver (the laptop is an S76 PanP5, runs ubuntu well) without apparent error, then proceeded to try to setup for LMDE update packs as described in the blog. I first backed up and then edited sources.list:
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me@it:~$ diff /etc/apt/sources.list.0 /etc/apt/sources.list
2c2
< deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
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> deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
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me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install mintupdate-debian
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "mintupdate-debian"
...
me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install emacs
> Couldn't find package "emacs". However, the following
> packages contain "emacs" in their name:
> emacsen-common