Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
Sorry Todd, I seem to have replied to you accidently. Oops. Here's the message I sent:I see that bash 4.0 is now in experimental, but I don't want to break compatibility with any package that may require bash 3.x. Is there a way to install them both, and use the alternatives system to make bash 3.x the default?
I suppose the non-debian way, and what I would do, would be compiling it with --prefix=/opt/bash-4.0 passed as an argument to ./configure, then installing it like any other source package, and using /opt/bash-4.0/bin/bash when you want to run it. No idea if it's possible to do it with .deb packages though.