On 30.03.15 10:03, Craig Sanders wrote:
also note that you're probably better off just installing iceweasel from experimental...after making sure you have a nearby mirror of experimental in your sources.list:
apt-get -t experimental install iceweasel
I had tried that with "-t testing", but that fetched 400 MB of guff, lost X, and there was no longer any gdm to be found. With little to lose, I updated my sources.lst to jessie, and did an "apt-get dist-upgrade". After that, the system wouldn't boot. A re-install from CD later, I have wheezy back - but would like to catch up on my mail backlog before trying the "-t experimental". Anything to reliably view video clips will do. On the emc-users ML there's occasionally links to some CNC machine-porn - even 3D printing in alloy steels or titanium, which I'd hate to be unable to enjoy. Heck, there's occasionally even a good idea which might be useful on my lathe or milling machine. (All on youtube)
current version in experimental is 36.0.4-1 while sid & jessie have only 31.5.3esr-1
this may pull in other updated packages from experimental or sid or jessie.
Yeah, I noticed that on "-t testing" - about 400 MB of it. I just hope to heck that all those "other updated packages" won't just wipe out X again. I'll give it a go. Like the pig squealing on the run-up to the electric fence between it and the turnip patch, I just need to take a deep breath and shut my eyes. Maybe I should down load the .iso for experimental, and install that from scratch, so I'm not mixing vintages to make a tawny debian. Erik