Just FYI (Tim) : On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:07:56PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: | On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 19:33, Tim wrote: | > Good enough! How would you recommend I get around the initial updates | > of several hundred MB? I'm still with 3.0r0. | | The several hundred mb updates are because wxGTK2.4 is now compiled with | g++-3.2 and depends on everything that was compiled with that as well. | | What you can do is download the source using | | apt-get source ... This downloads a 10MB tarball. | and then get the depends using | | apt-get build-dep ... The bandwidth and disk this requires depends on what you already have installed. | then go into the directory and run | | fakeroot debian/rules binary (I think) That's correct. It will take a couple hours with a Duron 750 (and lots of RAM) and needs about 280MB disk space. I discovered that last night when I rebuilt the package with wxPython 2.4.0.6 (instead of .3) so I could try out Boa Constructor. -D -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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