Thank you, Nicholas!
Alexandre.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:55 AM Nicholas D Steeves <
nsteeves@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Alexandre,
"Alexandre N." <alexandren@selodigital.net> writes:
Hi!
Do we really need to use the flag "-t experimental" ?
When I use it, it returns this error:
It is needed because Plasma 5.20.4 is in the experimental suite, and not
yet in sid. See, for example:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/plasma-desktop
vs
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop
Please take to heart what Martin wrote:
Em sáb., 12 de dez. de 2020 às 15:37, Martin Steigerwald < martin@lichtvoll.de> escreveu:
Hi!
If you are feeling adventurous and are using Sid, then you can help by
testing Plasma 5.20.4 from experimental. I installed it using
[snip]
Please do this only if you feel up to it and are willing to keep the
pieces in case something breaks. Of course you can always ask for help
here, but it would be good if you are willing to do your best to resolve >> and diagnose issues on your own first and then if need be report with as >> much detail as possible.
In this case "adventurous" means you may encounter breakage, that you understand the risks, and are nonetheless brave ;-) Please take your
time to consider carefully whether you can afford to break your GUI for
a couple of days. If you don't have a second system, it may be best to
test 5.20.4 from experimental in a VM, or wait for the upload to sid.
Don't forget that downgrading packages is not officially supported!
The only system I enable experimental for is a Core-2-duo Thinkpad that
I keep around for testing and as an emergency backup laptop. I'm not
very adventurous :-p
root@sid:/home/coworking# apt install -t experimental plasma-base
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'experimental' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
root@sid:/home/coworking#
To enable the experimental suite, add this line to sources.list, or to a
file in sources.list.d:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main
Regards,
Nicholas
<div dir="auto">Thank you, Nicholas!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alexandre.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:55 AM Nicholas
D Steeves <<a href="mailto:
nsteeves@gmail.com">
nsteeves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Alexandre,<br>
"Alexandre N." <<a href="mailto:
alexandren@selodigital.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
alexandren@selodigital.net</a>> writes:<br>
> Hi!<br>
><br>
> Do we really need to use the flag "-t experimental" ?<br>
> When I use it, it returns this error:<br>
><br>
It is needed because Plasma 5.20.4 is in the experimental suite, and not<br> yet in sid. See, for example:<br>
<a href="
https://packages.debian.org/sid/plasma-desktop" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://packages.debian.org/sid/plasma-desktop</a><br>
vs<br>
<a href="
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop</a><br>
Please take to heart what Martin wrote:<br>
> Em sáb., 12 de dez. de 2020 às 15:37, Martin Steigerwald <<br>
> <a href="mailto:
martin@lichtvoll.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
martin@lichtvoll.de</a>> escreveu:<br>
><br>
>> Hi!<br>
>><br>
>> If you are feeling adventurous and are using Sid, then you can help by<br>
>> testing Plasma 5.20.4 from experimental. I installed it using<br> [snip]<br>
>> Please do this only if you feel up to it and are willing to keep the<br>
>> pieces in case something breaks. Of course you can always ask for help<br>
>> here, but it would be good if you are willing to do your best to resolve<br>
>> and diagnose issues on your own first and then if need be report with as<br>
>> much detail as possible.<br>
In this case "adventurous" means you may encounter breakage, that you<br>
understand the risks, and are nonetheless brave ;-) Please take your<br>
time to consider carefully whether you can afford to break your GUI for<br>
a couple of days. If you don't have a second system, it may be best to<br>
test 5.20.4 from experimental in a VM, or wait for the upload to sid.<br> Don't forget that downgrading packages is not officially supported!<br>
The only system I enable experimental for is a Core-2-duo Thinkpad that<br>
I keep around for testing and as an emergency backup laptop. I'm not<br> very adventurous :-p<br>
> root@sid:/home/coworking# apt install -t experimental plasma-base<br>
> Reading package lists... Done<br>
> E: The value 'experimental' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a<br>
> release is not available in the sources<br>
> root@sid:/home/coworking#<br>
><br>
To enable the experimental suite, add this line to sources.list, or to a<br> file in sources.list.d:<br>
deb <a href="
http://deb.debian.org/debian" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
http://deb.debian.org/debian</a> experimental main<br>
Regards,<br>
Nicholas<br>
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