Hi,
I finally ditched gentoo yesterday, and installed debian in the time it
would have taken to fix the problems and compile the right packages for
my system. Hmmmm, nothing new here I suppose.
Anyway, then I remembered about demudi. It looks like the website is
down, but I can still access the repository and mirrors. I found:
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/www.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/README.FAQ
which tells me in section 8 that I can upgrade my sarge distribution to
include demudi, but when I follow the directions, I get errors.
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb http://apt.agnula.org/demudi testing main local extra
# apt-get install demudi-install demudi-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package demudi-install is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package demudi-install has no installation candidate
(and I get a similar error when I try just demudi-base). Is this a
problem? I am able to do `apt-get install demudi' and also grab a
kernel. As a little nitpick, the next step could be clearer too, and say:
# apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-<Type>
instead of
# apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-
(although it should be obvious, I still messed up).
Finally, I don't have the cfagent-demudi or upgrade-demudi scripts on my
system. I do have demudi-cfagent and demudi-upgrade. demudi-cfagent
seems to run fine, but when I try to run demudi-upgrade, it says:
/usr/sbin/demudi-upgrade: line 16: debconf-get-selections: command not found
and debconf-get-selections doesn't seem to be a package I can install (I
do have debconf-set-selections on my system).
Sooooooooooo ... what should I do? I would be okay with blowing
everything away and restarting from the 1.2.0 CD, if that's going to fix
things. As far as I understand, demudi is just some extra specially
maintained packages on top of debian testing. Is it a problem if I use
a current testing? I notice
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2004/07/14/debian/ testing main
contrib non-free
is meant to be in /etc/apt/sources.list in section 9, whereas I have a
current mirror specified.
Cheers,
Chris
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