[Installation] Debian testing

[vernius]

Hi. I installed debian stable first, as recommended on the wiki. Then I changed the sources to testing and it has removed several programs I used, among them "audacious and telegram". I tried to install them again and it does not let me, jumping the warning that the dependencies are not met. What have I done wrong?

[sunrat]

Did you do?

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apt update

and

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apt full-upgrade

audacious is available in testing
The Telegram package is called telegram-desktop.

Moved topic to Testing and Unstable subforum. You posted in Beginners; Testing is not for beginners.

[vernius]

Did you do?

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apt update

and

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apt full-upgrade

audacious is available in testing
The Telegram package is called telegram-desktop.

Moved topic to Testing and Unstable subforum. You posted in Beginners; Testing is not for beginners.

Hi. I did indeed put in the two instructions, it removed audacious and telegram and when I reinstalled it gave me the error message on dependencies.
In the debian wiki ( https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting) they talk about commenting the lines that have the word security when you point to testing, but further on it says:
"If you are tracking testing or the next-stable code name, you should always have a corresponding deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security <"testing" or codename>-security main entry in your apt sources."

I do not understand this apparent contradiction

[sunrat]

I don't see anything on that wiki page about commenting security lines. It just says to change the release name to "trixie" or "testing".

Show us the full output when you try to install:

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apt install audacious telegram-desktop

Make sure to do apt update and apt upgrade before installing anything. Packages can change fast in testing.

[FreewheelinFrank]

In the debian wiki ( https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting) they talk about commenting the lines that have the word security when you point to testing, but further on it says:
"If you are tracking testing or the next-stable code name, you should always have a corresponding deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security <"testing" or codename>-security main entry in your apt sources."

I do not understand this apparent contradiction

The Wiki was edited on 2023-05-12 to remove the advice to comment out the security line:

modified step two to edit security apt sources to testing insted of remove (and then relying on the later warning to re-add security sources) The warning could also be removed now.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting?action=info