[ubuntu-studio-users] General ("newbie") question about repositories

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:20:14 +0200, brian at linuxsynths.com wrote:
>Also, if I add an external repository, do I risk losing packages
>available in the current repos?

If you add third party repositories you risk issues caused by
dependencies. You still could install all the packages available by the
official repositories, but you might explicitly mention what
package version you want, assumed a third party repository provides the
same package, but by a more recent version. Regarding dependencies
required by a third party package, you might need to remove
dependencies of such a package from the third party repository,
otherwise you might be unable to install even a completely other
package from official repositories, that requires the same dependencies,
but with different versions.

Regards,
Ralf

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