Re: Relationship between sid and sarge
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:02:58AM -0600, ninewands wrote:
> Is there a way, short of dist-upgrading to sid, that I can install the
> sid package and the pacakges it depends on without breaking my sarge
> installation? Sid's just a wee bit too bleeding-edge for my tastes.
As was mentioned in a previous reply, build it from source. Make sure
there's a deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to sid or
unstable, and then:
apt-get update
apt-get build-dep gaim
apt-get -b source gaim
It took 15 minutes or less for me to build gaim 0.59 on Woody (P3-800,
512MB).
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Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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