[Ubuntu 8.10] Need help getting out of odd update manager loop

[David Karr]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, David Karr <davidmichaelkarr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:05 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Which exact repo did you add? Right after you added this repo and
> >> checked for upgrades and installed the above two packages, were these
> >> the only packages that were needed to be upgraded/installed?
> >
> > Ah! I didn't pay attention to this right after it, but now I see that the
> > new repo is the key to this.
> >
> > The repo URI was "http://http.us.debian.org/debian".
>
> Be very careful adding repos to your system. Debian's repos are *not*
> compatible with Ubuntu, generally speaking. Key libraries are at
> different versions and can cause major havoc to an Ubuntu system. It
> appears you've lucked out this time, but for future reference, don't
> just add any old repo to your sources. My personal suggestion, for
> simplicity's sake, is to stick to the official Ubuntu repos and the
> occasional launchpad.net PPA. If you absolutely must have a package
> that can't be installed from one of those two, you can try downloading
> *just the package* from Debian.
>

In this case, I was only using it to install an Emacs lisp package. In the
future, if I have to do that again, I'll enable the repo, install just that
package, and disable the repo.  If it's for anything else, I'll keep it away
from update manager.


>
> > Any reason not to proceed with the flash plugin update at this point?
>
> You should be ok now that you've disable the Debian repo. Go ahead and
> delete that repo entirely to avoid future snafus.
>

I think I'm ok with leaving it there, but unchecked, if I have to install
any other Emacs lisp packages again.  I'll never forget the impact of it
now. :)

Thanks.
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