Personally, I suggest avoiding Testing like the plague. If you need the
latest and greatest of a LOT of packages run "unstable". If you upgrade
packages you know are good to upgrade you will be much more stable than
testing. That is take the extra time to track the mailing lists, so you
don't do upgrades when major things are in transition.
If you only need cutting edge packages of a few +popular things (you noted
gnome2, evolution and gnucash). I would STRONGLY suggest you run stable
(woody) and go to apt-get.org. From there you can find a sources.list
entry to add to your woody install. That will install evolution, gnome2,
mozilla, gnucash etc all backported to woody.
It is much cleaner to run woody and get back ported packages (usually made
by the maintainers of the real packages anyhow) than it is to track
testing/unstable to only get a few "popular" packages.
I authored an email last night that gave exact steps with sources.list
entries to do this, but squirrelmail ate it. (Web apps suck arse!)
Unfortunately I am transitioning my office to another location and only
have webmail available for the next few days.... :(
-Derek
Bill Warner said:
> One thing I have found that works better than apt-get upgrade while
> running testing or unstable is to run apt-get dist-upgrade. Unless you
> change your pin priority or your sources.list it will not actually
> upgrade you from testing to unstable, but it will install dependances
> similar to the problem it looks like you are having.
>
> Also you can try installing libcamel0 and libgal19 before installing
> evolution.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:56, Liberty Young wrote:
>> Here is the output of trying to install evolution via Debian
>> testing...
>>
>> I've also noticed at
>> http://packages.debian.org/testing/gnome/evolution.html
>> that libgl19 has no description available...and that is the package
>> which requires libcamel0..which is also broken.
>>
>> I'm not sure to get (testing) evolution on my machine at this point...
>> I'm doing this all from another development box which was upgraded to
>> debian testing
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [grimiore@marduk:apt]$ apt-get -t testing install evolution
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or
>> been moved out of Incoming.
>>
>> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
>> that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>> that package should be filed.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> evolution: Depends: libcamel0 (= 1.0.5-1) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> Depends: libcamel0 (>= 1.0.5) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> Depends: libgal19 (>= 0.19.2) but it is not installable
>> E: Sorry, broken packages
>> [grimiore@marduk:apt]$
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:01, der.hans wrote:
>> > Am 28. Jul, 2003 schwätzte grimiore so:
>> >
>> > > apt-get install evolution for debian testing doesn't work...just
>> like
>> > > gnucash, it seems that it will take them forever to get that one
>> done.
>> >
>> > It worked just fine for me. I had evolution from testing installed
>> until yesterday. I moved to evo from unstable because I found
>> evolution
>> > really lacking in features. The package in unstable isn't quite
>> working
>> > right. Based on the bug reports I looked at it's an evolution
>> problem.
>> It
>> > also appears that the most recent evolution is also really lacking
>> in features.
>> >
>> > Switching back to testing retrieved my calendar, which had been
>> lost.
>> Tasks
>> > were also borken, but I wasn't using them.
>> >
>> > Mail worked in both versions, local and IMAP.
>> >
>> > Put the following in /etc/apt/preferences:
>> >
>> > ###
>> > Package: *
>> > Pin: release stable
>> > Pin-Priority: 600
>> >
>> > Package: *
>> > Pin: release testing
>> > Pin-Priority: 70
>> >
>> > Package: *
>> > Pin: release unstable
>> > Pin-Priority: 80
>> > ###
>> >
>> > If you're sticking testing all around change the 70 to 700.
>> >
>> > Put sources for stable, testing and unstable in
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.
>> >
>> > Put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
>> >
>> > ###
>> > APT {
>> > Cache-Limit 104857600;
>> > };
>> > ###
>> >
>> > Now do an update, "apt-get update", then install from testing:
>> >
>> > apt-get -t testing install evolution
>> >
>> > I don't know when I installed evolution. Probably ages ago. My
>> workstation
>> > is running testing.
>> >
>> > ciao,
>> >
>> > der.hans
>> > --
>> > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/
>> > # The Internet is the front line of the battle
>> > # to protect our freedom. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
>> >
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