[Ubuntu 8.10] Need help getting out of odd update manager loop

[David Karr]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:15 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 02/25/2009 03:42 PM, David Karr wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net> wrote:
>
> >> > The repo URI was "http://http.us.debian.org/debian".
> >>
> >> Be very careful adding repos to your system. Debian's repos are *not*
> >> compatible with Ubuntu, generally speaking. Key libraries are at
> >> different versions and can cause major havoc to an Ubuntu system. It
> >> appears you've lucked out this time, but for future reference, don't
> >> just add any old repo to your sources. My personal suggestion, for
> >> simplicity's sake, is to stick to the official Ubuntu repos and the
> >> occasional launchpad.net PPA. If you absolutely must have a package
> >> that can't be installed from one of those two, you can try downloading
> >> *just the package* from Debian.
> >>
> >
> > In this case, I was only using it to install an Emacs lisp package. In
> the
> > future, if I have to do that again, I'll enable the repo, install just
> that
> > package, and disable the repo.  If it's for anything else, I'll keep it
> away
> > from update manager.
>
> Have you checked to see if perhaps the package is already available?
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=emacs
>
> Also, you can try:
> http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=packages.ubuntu+%2Bemacs
> which leads to a PPA for Emacs Lisp:
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa>
>
> Not sure if those are helpful, but if you post the name of the debian
> package here then someone is likely to be able to assist.
>

Those are useful resources, but the package I installed, "js2-mode", wasn't
in any of those lists, that I could see.  I don't remember the exact name of
the debian package, but it was probably just "js2-mode".
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