Re: How to track *part* of unstable?
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:36:09PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write:
>
> > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain
> > > > packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash.
> >
> > Is gnucash_1.4.8 new enough for you?
>
> That'd be just fine, thanks. I'll take anything in the 1.4 series; potato
> is still at 1.3.4.
>
> > If so, just install Helix Gnome from http://www.helixcode.com/. Running
> > Potato, Helix is the best way to get new Gnome/GTK packages.
>
> I've been somewhat reluctant to do this until now, primarily because I've
> only just switched to Debian (from RedHat), and I'm still learning my way
> around the system. During this process, I don't want to complicate things
> with additional large packages. However, many of the gnome apps look very
> intriguing.
>
> Does the Helix installer use the Debian package system, or are they
> completely independent, or somewhere in between? I've already installed
> several .debs that appear to be included with Helix, like XMMS and the
> GIMP. Would I need to uninstall those first using apt-get?
Yes, the 'helix installer' for Debian is really nothing more than a shell
script that adds a line to your /etc/apt/sources-list. In my experience, it
has coexisted quite peacefully with Potato sources, aside from not installing a
certain rep-gtk package (which may be fixed now). From what I've heard, it
does not coexist peacefully with unstable, but you really don't it then, since
your getting the latest packages anyway. You wouldn't have to uninstall any of
the Potato gnome apps, as they would just be automatically upgraded when you
installed the Helix packages.
> Also, while many of the Gnome apps are pretty cool, I don't much like the
> desktop. I'd prefer to stay with my plain old FVWM. Is this relatively
> easy after a Helix install? (I'm certainly not afraid of editing .xsession
> and the like.)
Whatever you have set as your default wm will stay that way after a Helix
install. If you don't want to bother with the whole thing, just add this line
to your /etc/apt/sources-list:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
then just apt-get install gnucash (and whatever else you feel like) and the
dependancies will be automatically selected. The only side effect will be that
whenever you apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, all the gnome apps that you have
installed will be upgraded. Either way you've got a decent amount of
downloading ahead of you.
HTH
-Rob
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