Hello

fabio () wrote:

> i have a stable installation, with some packages upgraded to testing
> the problem is that i have deinstalled xfree and replaced with
> xserver-xorg (version 6.8.2 from an non-official repository, 6.9
> doesn't works with fglrx drivers) and everything now is messed up..

Frankly, except for some few packages, it is a bad bad idea to mix
stable with testing:

testing uses a newer libc6 which probably will be upgraded as soon as
you install anything from testing.

testing uses another C++ ABI than stable, which means all the C++
libraries/programs from testing are incompatible to stable (this
included QT and KDE).

testing uses several userspace programs that are incompatible to the
stable kernel (e.g. udev)

testing uses xorg instead of xfree86. additional drivers like those from
nvidia or ati built for stable won't work (in fact, right now even the
nvidia drivers from testing don't work, you need the unstable
packages).

> as example, my gnome disappeared, but still i see it as installed
> from aptitude... however when i make apt-get build-dep gnome
> nothing new is installed, so i make apt-get install gnome, and i got:
> (translated from italian, sorry for the bad translation)

Run: LC_ALL=C apt-get install gnome


> those packages have non satisfied dependencies:
> gnome: depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 64) but it's not
> going
> to be installed
> depends: gnome-office (= 64) but it's not going to be
> installed E: corrupted package

Explicitly install gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-office. It you
run into the same problem with other packages, repeat until you find
the reason. Maybe some essential stuff needs to be removed.

> and these gnome-desk.. gnome-office packages are recursively dependet
> on others.. so how can i do to reinstall gnome?

Either go back to stable (very difficult, as you already run into
trouble with an upgrade you probably won't get this working), or
upgrade completely to testing and live with the typical testing
problems. One is that testing uses xorg 6.9, and you need to reinstall
the fglrx driver - because the GLX part you have is incompatible to
xorg 6.9, and because you should upgrade your kernel as well, so you
also need to rebuild the fglrx kernel module. Also install
apt-listchanges to see which changes are made to your system when you
upgrade. If you don't want to live with testing, I suggest you
reinstall stable and stick with stable and backports (and /read/ the
instructions on apt pinning to avoid in the future what happened to you
this time).

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Il Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:38:41 +0000, Andreas Janssen ha scritto:

> Hello
>
> fabio () wrote:
>
>> i have a stable installation, with some packages upgraded to testing
>> the problem is that i have deinstalled xfree and replaced with
>> xserver-xorg (version 6.8.2 from an non-official repository, 6.9
>> doesn't works with fglrx drivers) and everything now is messed up..
>
> Frankly, except for some few packages, it is a bad bad idea to mix
> stable with testing:

yes, actually my mixed system doesn't work well..




> Either go back to stable (very difficult, as you already run into
> trouble with an upgrade you probably won't get this working)

i tried to do this by editing this way preferences file:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

but it doesn't work to me.. maybe i have to do for every package manually,
comparisoning the version string?

, or
> upgrade completely to testing and live with the typical testing
> problems.

i will do that, i have the stable on other partition..
Thank you for the info!

bye!