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I have another backport installed, and am having many problems. Why?

April 26, 2017backport installed problems

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I have another backport installed, and am having many problems. Why?

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This is a common problem. In general, mixing backports can be a really bad idea because different packages are dependent upon possibly different packages and versions. I do not make any guarantees on using my gnome2.2 backport with any other backport– with the exception of the semi-official openoffice.org woody backport. 5.