Re: evolution in testing or not ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:52, Tim Day wrote:
> [Warning, complete and utter Debian newbie alert]
:o)
> What's going on here... does apt fall back to stable for packages that
> aren't available for testing ? (Should this generally work ? Should I
> file a bug report ?)
>
> What's the best thing to do about it ? Wait for 1.4 to propagate down
> from unstable ?
>
You dont _have_ to wait. You could download the source package from
unstable and compile it (you'll need gtkhtml3.0 as well). If you are
running a 2.6 kernel, you will need to set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
enviroment variable equal to 2.4.18 (or some other 2.4.x kernel) in
order to compile it properly. Otherwise it should work fine.
its pretty simple really:
apt-get -t unstable source evolution gtkhtml3.0
cd gtkhtml3.0
dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg -i ../gtkhtml3.0*.deb
cd ../evolu*
#optional step: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.18; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg -i ../evolution*.deb
thats about it. you will need the debhelper package installed, and you
may need to download some packages that are needed for compiling the
package as well.
-davidc
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