Wierd (2 me) issues attempting install touchscreen

Once I get there, I can let you know if there's any more errors. I can tell you this, though - at least this time when I installed, the updates and package manager are actually working and erroring out, so I have more confidence that I had a dodgy installation the last few days and that this one is working.

The package xinput-calibrator is in sid, you would need to add that stanza to your /etc/apt/sources.list
The problem might be that it requires too high a version number of libc6

The actual errors will tell you what is wrong, albeit sometimes obtusely and only for the first error it hit

ArcEye wrote:
The reason why I didn't put the name of the display manager, is because it depends which desktop you chose at installation.

I'll take your word for it. Having just reinstalled again last night, I can say with certainty that there was nothing that offered up a choice though. Three clicks for English, America, and Central Time, name the machine, create my account, choose the eth0, and off we went.

ArcEye wrote: sudo service [program] start/stop/restart is now the prefered way to address anything in the /etc/init.d/ folder
I must admit I generally address directly just out of habit

Good to know. Thank you. I'll have to write that down... Thank you for the help.

ArcEye wrote: The package xinput-calibrator is in sid, you would need to add that stanza to your /etc/apt/sources.list
The problem might be that it requires too high a version number of libc6
The actual errors will tell you what is wrong, albeit sometimes obtusely and only for the first error it hit

That's the kind of stuff that we need to know. I'll Google later and try to figure out how to add that in. Been way too long for me to even attempt to recall.

For now, it seems my attempts at adding the udev rules did not succeed, so I'll need to try and figure out why it's not starting inputattach first.

Thank you.

That's the kind of stuff that we need to know. I'll Google later and try to figure out how to add that in. Been way too long for me to even attempt to recall.

Same as your other lines except replace wheezy main contrib non-free with sid main contrib non-free

If several packages exist but you want a particular one you can specify the archive with

apt-get install -t sid [name-of-package]

Generally safest to keep the repo stanzas you don't normally use commented out, then enable them and and run apt-get update before using, then comment out and run apt-get update again.

That way you don't run the risk of running apt-get dist-upgrade and finding you have upgraded to Jessie :laugh:

ArcEye wrote: Same as your other lines except replace wheezy main contrib non-free with sid main contrib non-free
If several packages exist but you want a particular one you can specify the archive with
apt-get install -t sid [name-of-package]
Generally safest to keep the repo stanzas you don't normally use commented out, then enable them and and run apt-get update before using, then comment out and run apt-get update again.
That way you don't run the risk of running apt-get dist-upgrade and finding you have upgraded to Jessie :laugh:

Ha Ha! Thanks for the tip.

So, using the /etc/apt/sources.list is there a way to add a specific package in a specific repository without allowing everything else in there? Something to the effect of " use this repository to keep this package updated, and only this package " , such that one would not need to remember to fiddle with commenting out and in entries without endangering oneself in the manner you point out? I'm thinking of all the little packages that I'm needing to install that are not already in this distro. ( hal, inputattach, xinput-calibrator, and anything else I stumble across during this venture ) Thanks. I appreciate your walking me through this.

So, using the /etc/apt/sources.list is there a way to add a specific package in a specific repository without allowing everything else in there? Something to the effect of " use this repository to keep this package updated, and only this package " , such that one would not need to remember to fiddle with commenting out and in entries without endangering oneself in the manner you point out?

There is but use with care.

If you just put in apt-get install [apackage] without the -t, it will get the latest version of the package, which will probably be in jessie or sid or whatever

That might work, or it might now rely upon a new version of libstdc++, or have been compiled against a different kernel or with a later version compiler etc etc and then you start getting into all sorts of problems potentially.

That is why I comment out, you are only going to ever want a particular package from that repo and the time spent editing out comments is negliable for the number of times that you will do it.