Re: "best practices" on debian

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> 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.

For what it's worth, mozilla should (finally!) be upgraded to 1.5 in
testing as of the next mirror pulse.

> 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?

I agree with those who've mentioned /usr/local. Trying to mix testing
and unstable is likely to be confusing, particularly if you're new to
Debian.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]