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Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

Is there a chance of getting the plank package in Freia too?
It's possibly too early to ask, but someone might know.
Plank was present as a package in Excalibur.
Thanks

delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

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Re: Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

Hi,
plank is in ceres.
It seems to be the same version as in excalibur.

Andre4freedom

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Re: Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

Thank you, Delgado
I downloaded the excalibur version of plank and tried to install it. It threw me some errors caused by dependency problems with incompatible libraries. (Gdebi)

delgado

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Re: Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

I just did on my freia

apt install -t ceres plank

and it works.

ceres was already in sources.list, since I'm using blender, virtualbox and (the non-esr) firefox from ceres ayway.

Andre4freedom

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Re: Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

Wow, Delgado, thank you!
It did the trick.

I did NOT install all proposed updates from ceres, just plank + dependencies.
Is it advisable to remove ceres from the sources list thereafter? I think yes....
Have a good day!

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

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Re: Testing Freia (netinstall Oct 31 2026)

Is it advisable to remove ceres from the sources list thereafter?

That depends.  If you want to receive updates for plank and its dependencies, you should leave ceres in, and set up apt pinning.  Basically, you'll want to set a higher Pin-Priority for ceres on plank and its dependencies, then afterwards, set a negative Pin-Priority for Package * on ceres.  Something like this (edit as needed)

# /etc/apt/preferences.d/ceres
Package: plank*
Pin: release n=ceres
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release n=ceres
Pin-Priority: -1

I didn't include plank's dependencies, because I didn't bother to look them up
If you don't want plank+dependencies updates coming in through apt, then you can remove ceres from sources altogether.