on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +0000, Vittorio (vdemart@supereva.it) wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is > a stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of > woody & testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see > that it requires to download some more new-updated libs and many files > for xfree86 4.1. > > Before going on with this 'dirty' action I'd like to have your most > revered advice. Strongly discouraged. Either stick to 'stable' (Potato), or make the switch to 'testing' (Woody). My experience has been that Woody's generally quite usable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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