Would it be possible to base LMDE in Sid instead of Testing - which have rather old kernel and packages? It would be *awesome* to have a much newer LMDE with GNOME Shell as main DE.
BTW, Lisa main edition rocks.
Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
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Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
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Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
That's what I do, and what a lot of others seem to be doing as well. Just change your sources to unstable and be sure to check the "BREAKAGES!" thread before updating. Some minor caveats: You may lose some "Mintiness," especially if you remove the Mint repos from your sources list (which is what I did), and you should probably get comfortable updating from the command line or by using Synaptic instead of with the Mint Updater.msx_ wrote:Would it be possible to base LMDE in Sid instead of Testing - which have rather old kernel and packages? It would be *awesome* to have a much newer LMDE with GNOME Shell as main DE.
BTW, Lisa main edition rocks.
I haven't had any major glitches at all, and my LMDE system is about a year old now (and tracking unstable for much of that).
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
Yes, it is. You have to change your /etc/apt/sources.list to the following
It's something like this, you can add/remove repos (I included the main repos and the multimedia one. This is what comes by default in lmde). Note that sid can be extremely unstable and can break your system. This is for the US only. For other countries, go to http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/index.php and change the release tp sid, the country to the country that you're in, and for default lmde repos (or at least the sid equivalents) select the debian main repo, the debian updates repo, the debian security updates repo, and the third party multimedia repo. Assuming you want the sid equivalents to the lmde repos, don't check any of the source repos. You can copy the sources.list file that comes up directly or remove the extraneous things that are surrounded in hashes.
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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
Thanks guys!
Because Sid is somewhat unstable ;) I would like a aptosid/siduction approach for LMDE.
Nevermind, you confirmed my idea of manually changing LMDE repositories with which I will play tomorrow Sunday :D
Because Sid is somewhat unstable ;) I would like a aptosid/siduction approach for LMDE.
Nevermind, you confirmed my idea of manually changing LMDE repositories with which I will play tomorrow Sunday :D
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
just for another idea, here's my sources.list
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## SID
#
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
I can't seem to get any connection to the debian.org sources or the skype sources.
I used the sources.list created from http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/index.php
This is what I have in the sources.list
when running apt-get update I get "W: Failed to fetch [...] 404 Not Found"
And most other stuff is ignored, or that is what I guess the "Ign" means.
I used the sources.list created from http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/index.php
This is what I have in the sources.list
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deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main
And most other stuff is ignored, or that is what I guess the "Ign" means.
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
Hi folks, I've been über-busy these days and haven't got any time to play with this, I will be reporting back my experiences once I try it.
Thanks everyone who responded.
Thanks everyone who responded.
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
Hello everyone,
I've been in the process of a "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" which I started oh, about 2 hrs ago....when it started, it brings up like this:
resolving dependencies...
open: 446600; closed: 489100; defer: 93; conflict: 208
Does anyone know what this means or what's going on & why it's taking so long...any input is welcome...cheers
Andrew
I've been in the process of a "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" which I started oh, about 2 hrs ago....when it started, it brings up like this:
resolving dependencies...
open: 446600; closed: 489100; defer: 93; conflict: 208
Does anyone know what this means or what's going on & why it's taking so long...any input is welcome...cheers
Andrew
Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell
Andrew:
You may want to stop the "aptitude safe-upgrade" and substitute "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". The apt-get approach is what was recommended in the "Tracking testing & Tracking sid" forums. I just tried both on my system, LMDE tracking sid , and they gave different results. The aptitude way wanted remove a bunch of packages, and apt-get didn't want to do anything. I had just recently done the apt-get dist-pgrade.
Jim
You may want to stop the "aptitude safe-upgrade" and substitute "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". The apt-get approach is what was recommended in the "Tracking testing & Tracking sid" forums. I just tried both on my system, LMDE tracking sid , and they gave different results. The aptitude way wanted remove a bunch of packages, and apt-get didn't want to do anything. I had just recently done the apt-get dist-pgrade.
Jim