Re: Unstable

[David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 00:56, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> Debian newbie question.
>
> If Unstable is more up to date than stable can I/how do I switch apt to
> update from the newer archive ?

It is indeed more current, but obviously less stable. The easiest way to 
switch is to edit your /etc/sources.list file and change every occurance of 
"stable" to "unstable".

>
> Also from people who have done this how architecture neutral are the
> gnome-lib & kdelib sources ? Is it likely I can build a new fangled
> desktop from the bottom up or will I be in for tracking down obscure
> porting bugs as well as dependency. I can cope with difficult compiles,
> but I'm probably not up to fixing source bugs.
>

I should imagine you can just apt-get everything you need.

David.

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