Gregor Horvath wrote:
I did not find a partimage package in the stable release.
Only partimage-doc and mindi-partimagehack is present.
installing the testing deb gives dependency errors
What to do?, compile my own version?
Yes, backporting should be a fairly simple process. You need to add a deb-src
line for testing or unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
# or
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main
Then, as root:
# apt-get update
# apt-get build-dep partimage
As a regular user, resumably in their home directory:
$ mkdir partimage-build
$ cd partimage-build
$ apt-get source partimage
The partimage sources will be downloaded and unpacked into a folder. cd to
that folder, then:
$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
And if the build is successful, you will have one or more .debs in
~/partimage-build. As root, 'dpkg -i' the ones you want.