Re: Should I put Ximian on my Potato?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Curtis Dean Smith wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am running Potato, but am getting impatient for some of the newer
> Gnome apps (like gnumeric 1). I have not found much comment on the
> pros or cons of installing Ximian Gnome on Debian Potato using their
> red-carpet, but I am a bit hesitant since my last experience with
> Helix on Potato (it crashed my xfs). Can anyone give me their
> experiences and/or advise?
I used to have it installed - never had any problem even when they
were Helix...
But right now, if I did not want to update to woody for some reason,
then I would get all the sources I needed and tried to compile the
deb against older stuff in potato [some libraries may not exist so
they would need to be compiled as well].
- Ada,
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