[nmglug] help with a friend installing ubuntu 5.10

[js at jasonschaefer.com]

Hi Mark

Any time I have mixed them, even a little, my system got jacked and I
re-installed eventually. Just enable universe, multiverse, restricted,
backports, extras and you will have most everything you need. The word
on the street is that you should remove marillat for w32codecs after you
install the codecs package, since it will conflict with other repos.

Jason


Mark Galassi wrote:

>Amigos, I'm helping a friend with an install on a new Toshiba laptop.
>We were going to do Debian, but the latest unstable netinst did not
>grok the CD drive.
>
>I tried to install Ubuntu 5.10 and it worked like a charm (small
>caveats -- it will need extra work for the builtin wireless and so
>forth...)
>
>I'm a bit sad about this because I generally prefer to stick to
>vanilla debian since a long time ago I read that Ubuntu was diverging.
>
>So we then tried to add the debian unstable line to
>/etc/apt/source.list and then did a dist-upgrade, and now things are a
>bit weird and X does not run.
>
>This led me to wonder if my old knowledge that you could add those
>lines to sources.list are no longer valid.  Ubuntu talks about
>something called the "universe".  Should we just go with that and not
>try to use Debian apt archives?
>
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