Debian Lenny : how to install xfce 4.6 instead of lenny's 4.4
 

Hello, LQ.

I've got this problem ones may already heard of.
Installed debian lenny, i was trying to use gnome and kde but i don't like them. I tried xfce and it seem to fit my needs but...
My computer is used to be powered on for a weeks. While time passes, a process xfdesktop begin to use more and more memory and to free RAM i need to log out and log in again (it's crazy, don't you think?).

I tried squeeze yesterday on my virtual machine and it has 4.6 and seem not to have that bug, RAM usage is static(yes it still works when i write this and have memory usage 34492k, which is not changing for an hours of usage already), also 4.6 is MUCH better than 4.4.

Advice? how to do that safe?
i already tried adding squeeze to "sources.list" but i can see too many dependencies which should be upgraded if i install 4.6, i'm beginning to afraid it can crash entire GUI(or entire system, i can see there is libc6 required to be updated). is it the only way?

The easiest way would be to use Backports:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/xfce4
http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

yeah im using backports, thanks for the link, i will try that.

Don't forget to remove Squeeze from your sources.list also!.

it won't work. i tried to remove xfce4 package and install this, but no luck ( http://codepad.org/n202O9y2 ), or directly install .deb i fetched, but still no luck(it still won't install xfce4 with apt-get -f install )
i upgraded it partially and it still seem to work but the version is same, bug is present... what would i do?
any idea how to get that fixed?
even tried removing main mirrors, leaving only backports... nothing helped.

i really begin to believe this system is trying to tell me it is smarter than me.

try this

no way... http://codepad.org/zwdbb8E6
what am i doing wrong? maybe i need to go another way of installing?

maybe i need to remove all packages associated with xfce and start from scratch?

Start from the beginning.

Then,add your entries for the main Debian repositories and Backports in /etc/apt/sources.list
When you have added these post back here with the output of

And then we will go from there.

What about doing this for each dependency

what is "purge ~c"?
sources.list is
2 worm5252: i believe it does upgrade on entire system, not the package.

So Xfce is purged successfully,yes?.
Then the next step is to work on your sources.list.
We'll borrow Craigevils' example,make yours look something like this:

Obviously you can change the US entries for ones more appropriate to your location.
Post back with yours when you have modified it.

Removes any leftover config files.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
already run "aptitude update" what's next?

If you had no errors after running aptitude upate,then we can install Xfce again.
So install with:

See how that goes.

no way... tried Y also, nothing helps. http://codepad.org/k9J6oY7t
either it's too smart or too stupid. im beginning to think i will need to reinstall system entirely. or remove it and install something else which isn't so damn smart.