On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:52:41AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
| At 07:18 PM 07/04/02 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
| >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:45:59 -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| >> Is there an line that can be added to bring in xfree 4.2 for woody? If
| >> not, how about for sid?
| And thus: http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/
|
| Ok, I'm slow. Do we update sources.list and update & dist-upgrade or
| download individual debs?
I don't know if that directory is apt-gettable, but downloading
individual packages (eg with wget) always works.
Taking a quick glance with links, I see a file named "APT". It reads
as follows :
~~~~~
# add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this repository
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
# add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this source repository
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/source/
~~~~~
| If sources.list, is there an example. And if individual debs, which
| ones and in what order should the be installed with dpkg?
The ones you want, just as always. You can install them all at once
with 'dpkg -i' (just list all the file names).
| Or, I'm about ready to reinstall Sid on a laptop. Do I need to install
| x-window-system before downloading the 4.2 files, or can the 4.2 files be
| installed with no prior X on the machine?
I would choose to not install an old version of X when you know you're
not going to keep it. If the 4.2 packages are uninstallable if you
don't already have an X install then they are buggy and unusable (how
then could they be part of 'stable' which is meant to be installed
from scratch).
-D