Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

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Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by msx_ »

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.
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Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

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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.
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.

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).
cwwgateway

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by cwwgateway »

Yes, it is. You have to change your /etc/apt/sources.list to the following

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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
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.
msx_

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by msx_ »

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
wyrdoak

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by wyrdoak »

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
hkbruvold

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by hkbruvold »

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

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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
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.
msx_

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by msx_ »

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.
Andrew33

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by Andrew33 »

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
jlsmith722

Re: Sid-based LMDE with GNOME Shell

Post by jlsmith722 »

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
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