On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:12:46PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to upgrade to 1.8.4 on Sarge. It seems like I can either... > > > > 1. Build from sources under the watchful eyes of checkinstall > > 2. Use apt-pinning and apt-get from unstable. > > 3. Backport from unstable. Highly recommended. Small procedure hints: - Add an unstable deb-src line to sources.list. - Update and get the source pkg (apt-get source ruby1.8). - Install the build-depends of ruby1.8 (apt-get build-dep ruby1.8). - Install devscripts. - cd ruby1.8; debuild - Install the debs in ../ :) Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | email: paulvt@debian.org University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: paul@luon.net >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181
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