[oclug] Desktop freeze (was: apt problem while tracking alternate release)

[Jon Earle]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Dave O'Neill wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:57:33AM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> > My system is currently debian 3.0 stable.  I want to install the latest
> > mozilla from unstable, but when I issue 'apt-get -t unstable install
> > mozilla', apt wants to remove all my kde setup and install a whole pile of
> > other stuff including ldap, ogg and whatnot.  I tried adding the '-d'
> > option to the above command (in various place) to just download the
> > package, but I get the same output from apt - that it wants to essentially
> > ruin my system in the process.
> >
> > How can I slap it into obedience?
>
> Check out http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html

That was the page I followed to get to the point I'm at.  Doesn't make
much sense that KDE would have to go and ldap/krb/ogg/etc installed to
make room for mozilla/unstable.

I ended up just downloading the installer from mozilla.org and got it
installed that way.  Which leads me to the next question.

I installed the latest mozilla thinking that a problem I have displaying
large graphics might go away.  It did not... large images viewed in
mozilla/konq cause my desktop to freeze.  Anyone seen this before?

Cheers!
Jon

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