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Recalling an install of Debian 'Testing' (upgrade from 5 aka Lenny): Good points, challenges, achievements and showstoppers.



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Journal of a typical install (unstable 30/01/2010)

Apt-Pinning to surf between unstable, stable and testing.

More on sources.list: http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/COMPUTING/debian-principles.html

And here is my draft sources.list

Since Vino is dead, here is the list of recommendations from wiki.deian.org: http://wiki.debian.org/VNCviewer

A bare Debian install doesn't feature build tools so you do have to install headers, make, gcc and the likes. Slackware rules!

+ the Tale of the Missing Packages

Bluetooth HowTo Fail

And unrelated Debian information

YES

Quite Cool...

Just Works (With Testing)

Added

NO

Showstoppers

Still to try: failure to import virtualmachines created elsewhere will pull the plug on this install.

Bugs

Cures

Still ToDo

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