I am using debian for the very first time and first impression is some what better then other distros I had used earlier.
I am using debian-40r8-i386-kde-CD-1 using VirtualBox in xp as a host. There were some specific development requirements to use an older version.
The link from where I have downloaded the image says:
The contents of my sources.list are:Note that when you install using an old CD/DVD, the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list will reference the current stable Debian release by default. This means that any upgrade over the net will upgrade to the current stable release. To avoid this, but still receive security upgrades for an old release which is still supported, you may want to change the contents of this file, replacing "stable" with "oldstable".
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r8 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20090410-18:56]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r8 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20090410-18:56]/ etch contrib main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
I DON'T want to upgrade my system but would like to download packages from repository and other updates such as security ones, what changes should I make?
Default python is 2.4.4 where as I need 2.6.4 or 2.6.5. Is it possible to uninstall old one and install 2.6.5? If yes, is it available on the repository or I have to build from sources?
That's it for now.
Many thanks to debian developers.....It's really a nice one
Cheers
Prashant