Re: potato and netsaint

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Andy Bastien <lists@yuggoth.net> wrote:
>I'd like to install netsaint on a potato box.  Unfortunately, the most
>recent version requires glibc 2.2.  Is is reasonably possible to
>upgrade potato to glibc 2.2?  This is a production box, (mainly DNS,
>but it does one or two other things as well), so I can't screw it up
>;-).  Should I just try to live with an older version of netsaint?  Do
>I have any other options?

Upgrading potato should be possible, but is something I'd be quite
careful about; normally I'd just end up upgrading to woody anyway. If
you want to stick with potato (which is probably sensible in this case),
you could try building the latest netsaint from source. Basically:

  root# apt-get install libc6-dev gcc g++ make dpkg-dev
          [ build-essential packages ]
  root# apt-get install fakeroot
          [ means you don't have to build as root ]
  root# apt-get install libgd-dev debhelper libpng-dev
          [ build dependencies of netsaint, declared in its
            debian/control file ]
  user$ apt-get source netsaint
          [ grab source - needs appropriate deb-src lines in
            sources.list ]
  user$ cd netsaint-0.0.6stable-3
  user$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
          [ wait ]
  user$ cd ..
  root# dpkg -i netsaint_0.0.6stable-3_i386.deb
          [ ... or whatever architecture you have ]

HTH,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]