3 weeks no network, then I upgraded Sid.....

[mzilikazi]

I thought unstable was supposed to be well.....unstable? So much for that. The only issue I have seen so far is the removal of aptitude due to a dependency problem on libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11. That was an easy fix:

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apt-get install aptitude/experimental

Got Nvidia 100.14.09-1 too. All is well in Debian Unstable.

That was one boring upgrade.

[CocoAUS]

How'd you get nVidia? It has a missing dependency in the unstable repos.

[mzilikazi]

How'd you get nVidia? It has a missing dependency in the unstable repos.

It's highly experimental
If you don't already know how to add experimental repos to your sources.list then this is probably not what you want.

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apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-glx
nvidia-kernel-source:
  Installed: 100.14.09-1
  Candidate: 100.14.09-1
  Version table:
 *** 100.14.09-1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.8776-4 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
nvidia-glx:
  Installed: 100.14.09-1
  Candidate: 100.14.09-1
  Version table:
 *** 100.14.09-1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.8776-4 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free Packages

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apt-cache depends nvidia-glx
nvidia-glx
  Depends: <nvidia-kernel-100.14.09>
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.21-rt1-k8
  Depends: x11-common
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxext6
  Suggests: nvidia-settings
  Suggests: nvidia-kernel-source
  Conflicts: <nvidia-glx-src>
  Conflicts: nvidia-glx-dev
  Replaces: <nvidia-glx-src>

apt-cache policy x11-common libc6 libx11-6 libxext6 
x11-common:
  Installed: 1:7.2-5
  Candidate: 1:7.2-5
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.2-5 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:7.2-3 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
libc6:
  Installed: 2.5-11
  Candidate: 2.5-11
  Version table:
     2.6-0exp3 0
          1 http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
 *** 2.5-11 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.5-9+b1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
libx11-6:
  Installed: 2:1.0.3-7
  Candidate: 2:1.0.3-7
  Version table:
     2:1.1.2-1 0
          1 http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
 *** 2:1.0.3-7 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libxext6:
  Installed: 1:1.0.3-2
  Candidate: 1:1.0.3-2
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.0.3-2 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And then there's the actual installation:

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CTRL+ALT+F1
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
rmmod nvidia
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
m-a a-i nvidia
/etc/init.d/gdm restart

[plugwash]

I thought unstable was supposed to be well.....unstable?

mmm

some rough definitions of what the different releases are.

experimental: new stuff, quite probablly broken but in need of testing by those with specific experiance.

unstable: new stuff that should be working but may suffer from transiant dependancy issues and issues that the maintainer missed.

testing: stuff from unstable after a settling time and some other criteria (less rc bugs, built on all architectures previous versions built on, no dependency issues etc).

stable: virtually no changes util there is a new release.

oldstable: a previous stable release that is still getting security support.