Asus Eee PC 8G -- Opinions please!

I found this page. The problem (aside from the complexity) is that it's for the 701, not the 900.

Also, it implies that there is a sources.list file already. But elsewhere I think I read that on the 900 it's in a different place. But running "whereis sources.list" gives nothing, not even the one I created in apt/get.

 

I FOUND IT!!! It's on /ro/etc/apt. Here's the file. I am going to copy it into the one I made, and see what happens.

 

Okay. The attached file newmod.txt is the output from "apt-get update" with the sources.list file I found and posted above plus the deb line from the sources.list file I had been using added onto it. As before, there was an error line printed to the screen, apparently the same or similar.

But synaptic still wants to remove most of my programs as a condition for installing knights.

 

One more thing: This time I copied the sources.list file directly from /ro/etc/apt to /etc/apt and ran apt-get update. The output is in the file orimod.txt. There were no error messages. But knights is not available, although there are a few programs available which are not on my computer.

 

Okay. I'll give those a try. But right now I have some things I need to do. So I'll work on that later.

While you were working on that, I found another file, attached as sources.another.txt, which was hidden away in an examples folder. Note that it is different than the version we've been using for the deb files. So I appended it to a copy of the original sources file and ran apt-get update again. The output is also attached, as anothermod.txt.

Synaptic still wants to remove files to install knights. It would install Crafty without changing anything, but Crafty needs xboard, and installing xboard would require removing a few files.

I'll be using this newer version of sources, and your versions of preferences for pinning when I come back to the computer later.

You've asked me to use apt-get rather than synaptic because apt-get provides the -s option and can redirect an output to a file that I can post. But if both synaptic and apt-get report that they would not delete anything, is it then safe to use either? Or would you still recommend using apt-get?

 

Okay. Apt-get it is. I'm going to start playing with the new preferences file now.

 

Using the first preferences file version, apt-get wrote the following message on the screen:

W: Did not understand pin type o=update.eeepc.asus.com.1.6
E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header

The file for redirected output only contained "Reading package lists..."

Using the second version of the preferences file produced the following screen output:

W: Dd not understand pin type o=Xandros

The output file was very long and basically wanted to trash the whole computer. That file is attached as outpin2.txt