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On 24/11/11 10:24, Henry Bremridge wrote:
Mint Debian is indeed Debian Testing. This is what I was running when I was thrown into the hell of Gnome 3 and that set me off on this odyssey. I tended to just go with the rolling updates as they came but this was a roll too far. I must admit though, Testing is good fun. (Depending on your definition of fun.)On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:59:04AM +0000, George Parker wrote: <snip>Debian works well but the stable release, Squeeze, still has a rough around the edges feel. The Mint Debian, although a rolling release is a better experience for me. (Very subjective this) I'm not a purist and I find the lack of non free stuff without hunting around, in Squeeze, very annoying.1) Try Debian testing If you run Debian Testing, there can be quite a few updates. I find "cron-apt" very helpful 2) Add "contrib and non-free" to /etc/apt/sources.list My sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main (I had a problem one day and had to use a US source to get the updates) Also see http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
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