Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> As another guess, I think KNOPPIX is defaulting to using the "unstable"
> branch rather than the "stable" branch, meaning it picks packages that
> depend on whole new versions of libc and other critical infrastructure.
> 
> Telling it to pick the newest package from "stable" seems to make
> everything work beautifully. I wonder why KNOPPIX is set this way?

Because...

> OTOH... I asked for GHC, and I got version 6.6. That's *years* old
> (current version is 6.10.1 - although note they skip odd-numbered
> versions). Maybe that's why?

... stable is ment to be stable, so all the software getting to Debian
Stable is in testing -phase for a long time. Unstable is more like
bleeding edge.

-Aero

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