[Solved] So I disabled the CD ROM repository using the software and updates application on Debian 12 because it kept asking me to insert the CD ROM when I would try to install stuff.
After disabling it I used Aptitude to update the packages I had already installed but I noticed that before I disabled the CD ROM repository it told me that because I didn’t have it inserted that it used some older versions of software.
After removing the CD rom repository it just updated everything and didn’t show that message.
My concern is that I know Debian uses some older versions of stuff because of its stability and I read very briefly about “Franken Debian” situations where people use versions of stuff that weren’t intended to be used with the stable version of Debian.
Did I mess up by doing that and create a situation like that? And if so, after a fresh reinstall when I get here again is virtually mounting the USB stick I have the Debian DVD ROM on an option for it to stick with that CD ROM repository? (I don’t have a physical CD ROM on this machine)
On debian i just comment out all except the main official repos that I want. As long as you have the main deb and security and updates ones i think you’ll be fine.
I tend to go for flatpak or appimage for anything not in those. I’d avoid any testing, unstable , backport sources unless you know what you’re getting into.
I guess you’re maybe using aptitude to avoid cli, but i’d recommend at least looking at the /etc/apt/soures.list file, and any stuff in the subfolder /etc/apt/soures.list.d
This is the list of where it looks for software. If it can’t connect to any of those, It’ll probably warn you about an unavailable source.
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList