Hello all,

It has been awhile since I've been here. I've been playing with Mepis 8.0 and 8.5 and thought I would return to AntiX after trying to learn a few things.

I have recently installed 8.2 on a separate partition and after using synaptic gnome mplayer will not work. I tried some of the tricks from Mepis but they don't seem to work.

I have read on another post about using SMXI and disabling the Mepis repo(s). Is this the way to go?


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Thanks in advance.

Dave

Hmm. You think you have throughly gone through the posts and then you find something like this.

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Dave
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Hello Folks,

Well, I've unchecked all the Mepis and unstable repos and installed about 12 new packages. That seems much better than the 700 or so.

Anything else that I need to do? Should I recheck the original or should I just leave them as is?

TIA.
Dave

If you mean you've just leaved the stable repos that's fine. Regarding security patches (
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to receive security patches for stable packages and since antiX 8.2 already has a lot of Debian testing packages, maybe uncomment again
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Besides having to update so many packages, it's pretty fine to leave the testing repos instead of the stable ones, in my not so extensive experience. Only debian-multimedia.org i would advice to keep on stable because of some mplayer issues on testing:
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if you decide to return to testing again then after the update process do an 'apt-get clean' to clear the package's cache and recover disk space.

Great, Thank you for your advice !!

Dave