debian versions (was: package installation problem)

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Theoretically it is possible to mix and match from the different 
releases, but it is very tricky and not a good idea, especially for 
beginners. The problem is all the dependencies that go along with a 
"foreign" package. 

Sarge moved from testing to stable a little less than a year ago, and it 
isn't that old, actually. You can run a 2.6 kernel in it for instance. 
Etch is scheduled for release as the next stable version by the end of 
2006, but such schedules have a tendency to be optimistic.

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