On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:50:34AM -0500, Paulsen, Jay wrote: > I'm new to Debian, just having installed woody. However, I'd like to run > apache2 and possibly some other packages that are available only on the > testing distribution. Can I just point apt-get to the testing distribution > and install apache2 binaries, You can, but that will cause issues, eventually. If it's possible to update to testing, that would probably be easier. > or is it better to install the source packages and build it on woody? Sure, this is a good idea. Or look on http://www.apt-get.org/ to see if someone else has done the hardwork for you:) I'm pretty sure Colin Watson has backported apache2 for woody here: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/, anyway. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: beanpole CDC genetic JUWTF SAFE M-14 Chobetsu ASIO FSF
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