Re: MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

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

"Bas van der Zalm" <basvdzalm@baz.com> wrote:
>I would like to have MySQL 3.23.xx on my Potato system, but unfortunately
>there isn't a debian-package available for it. Building one out of the source
>seems to be the solution. But I have always learned not to mix a package-setup
>system with custom build software.

Use 'apt-get source' on the Debian mysql packages, and
'dpkg-buildpackage' to build them; if you have the right development
packages, this will create .debs compiled for your system, which you can
then go ahead and install.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]