"best practices" on debian
Hello,
I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of
the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the
sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mozilla, and the alsa audio
drivers, and gaim, and xfree86, either didn't get installed, or didn't get
upgraded to the current versions.
I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages
available from various sources there. But some things, for example mozilla,
are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that have always "just
worked" in my experience. Is it bad to install mozilla that way, completely
bypassing the apt system?
Likewise for gaim, and the alsa audio drivers, I've never had any trouble
building them from source on my Slackware system, so I'd guess they'd build
fine on my Debian system. And I want to go to XFree86 4.3, but dist-upgrade
only gave me 4.2.
I definitely want to have the latest versions for certain packages, like
these ones I've mentioned. But if I install them manually, is that a
problem? Isn't my whole apt system going to then be out-of-sync with what's
actually installed on my box? Or is there a way to make apt give me the
very latest versions (is that what "unstable" is)?
Thanks,
Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/
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