Re: Probs Installing Testing pkgs on Woody stable
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 05:34, Eric Walstad wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a Debian newbie. Please be gentle.
>
> I've installed Woody stable and now find that I need to install:
> .html
> hostap-utils.html
> wireless-tools.html
> for a project I'm working on[1]. I think these packages are only available in
> Debian's Sarge/Testing, but I'm not entirely clear on how to tell that for
> sure.
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=hostap-source&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
(If you have galeon, just type the package name into the debs field in
the bookmarks toolbar and it will fetch that URL for you.)
> When I try to dpkg --install them or apt-get install them I get errors
> to the effect that I'm going to screw with other packages if I install these.
> Sorry, I'm at home now and don't have the command lines I issued nor the
> error messages.
Some apt requests can be impossible to fulfil; you would need to show
the error messages.
...
> I think my problems are, and hope for help with:
> - I'm confused about apt-get vs. dpkg, when to use which and what they can and
> can't do. I thought that one or both would magically handle the dependencies
> for me, installing what is needed for me even if it meant replacing packages
> with newer, testing, versions.
apt-get will install all packages needed to fulfil your request, if it
is possible. The command is
apt-get install package
dpkg installs a single package from a deb file:
dpkg -i /path/to/package_1.2.3-4_i386.deb
Using dpkg may leave dependencies unmet. Apt-get uses dpkg to install
packages.
> - Should I up[grade|date] my entire installation to Sarge/Testing? If so,
> how? The best I could find on Debian.org said that I should burn a minimal
> CD and then install from the net. Burning the CD is no trouble but, when I
> tried to take this approch when installing Woody, it was not clear to me how
> to specify a network install and from which site[s] the deb packages should
> come.
I would not advise using sarge; things tend to be out of date for a long
time and non-bugginess is not guaranteed. unstable gets problems fixed
much more quickly, though you are at the small risk of serious problems
if there are bad bugs in a package.
> - Should I just install these packages in non-debian form (from sources)?
If you do, put them in /usr/local so as not to conflict with files
installed by packages.
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