On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:33:58PM -0400, Dan Muller wrote: > told that I need expat or libxml >= 1.8.3. Neither potato nor woody are up > to libxml 1.8.3. (I was considering upgrading to woody before I noticed > this -- not a decision to be taken lightly, since I live behind a modem!) > > (And finally...) My questions: What's the best way to go about getting and > installing libxml 1.8.3 or greater, given that it's not available as a > package -- or if it *is* available as a package, it'll be in a distribution > that I don't want to point dselect at? (I already went through a few hours > of insanity when I made the mistake of pointing dselect at 'testing' > temporarily.) Let me answer in a general way, since I have no knowledge of the specifics of libxml, its dependencies, when it will make it into unstable etc. 1. The apt in woody can be instructed to grab packages from different releases (stable, testing, unstable). In some cases, a package will have dependencies on many packages that also have to be grabbed from testing or unstable, so installing that package will essentially upgrade (almost) the whole system. There is nothing inherently problematic with such mixed system, it will just be not so thoroughly tested since it will be pretty unique. AFAIK you can install the apt from woody without upgrading the whole system to woody, but do check that. (As woody is close to a official release, you might want to upgrade to woody anyway). 2. Another approach is to use unofficial sources for apt. E.g. I have a list for daily builds of wine in /etc/apt/sources.list. I don't know how many software projects make daily builds available in deb archive like this. 3. Install binaries (or from source) into /usr/local. The debian package management system will never install files in /usr/local so this is the place for your own installs. Stow is probably a good helper here. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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