Flash Player no longer Directly Supports Linux

[Jeffery Mewtamer]

^Considering how stripped down my Adriane Knoppix Install is, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you would have packages installed that a package manager would want to purge to allow the upgrade. Anyways, I think I have found a solution, though it might be riskier than you want to risk: in the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00knoppix the second line sets the default release to Debian Wheezy in Knoppix 7.2.0. Apparently, this prevents a sizeable number of packages from being marked as upgradable by Aptitude(and persumably other apt frontends). Before commenting out this line, Aptitude only showed 10 packages as upgradable(5 of them being libpango related) and all of its resolution suggestions either gutted what I need to do web browsing(Adriane-x, gnome-orca, iceweasel, theirr dependencies) or cancelled the libpango upgrade. Commenting out this line caused Aptitude to show 400+ packages as upgradable, and while most of its resolution suggestions for trying to upgrade libpango still wanted me to gut my web browsing, it eventually gave me one what only involved upgrading installed packages or installing new packages. I upgraded libpango, uncommented the default release line, and now Aptitude is showing only 5 upgradable packages, nothing libpango related among them, and best I can tell, nothing has borken, but then again, Iceweasel is the only reason I ever leave text-only mode. On my test machine, I tried upgrading all of the newly marked as upgrable packages and lost sound halfway through the upgrade, so I would recommend caution with any software upgrades made visible by commenting out the default release line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00knoppix. e

[AussiePete]

Jeffery,
Thank again for your help. My system doesn't contain a file called 00Knoppix. The only files in this directory are '10Periodic' and '99Synaptic'. However, I assume the following is a related file for package sources '/etc/apt/sources.list' which is shown below:

# Debian/Squeeze is the stable base for this installation
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

# testing/unstable/experimental contain newer versions, but
# packages from there are not being installed by default, unless
# they came from there in the first place.
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

# Debian/volatile contains quickly changing data like spam- and virusfilter databases
# Does not exist anymore
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile stable/volatile main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable-updates main contrib non-free

# Knoppix repository
deb http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org ./

# x2go
# deb http://x2go.obviously-nice.de/deb/ lenny main
# deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian squeeze main
deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian wheezy main
deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian sid main

# Debian Multimedia, contains non-free software like acrobat reader
# deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main

Actually I altered the above file some time ago replacing 'squeezy' with 'wheezy' due to another unrelated problem. So if I understand things correctly, I am already down loading 'wheezy' updates. However, I use Synaptic Package installer which seems to have a mind of its own so I am not sure what it is downloading, although there are some squeezy versions among the updates.
I've basically made very few changes to the standard Knoppix 7.2 system, apart from adding Chromium and a few other minor programs, such as package installers, as well as installing very few updates except for the packages I use. I'm running on a memory stick so have very little space left in the knoppix-dada.img file.
Thank anyway,
Peter