Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:15:36PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> So I went to the subversion mailinglist and posted this problem and
> they gave me two urls which I added into my source list
> ---------------------------------------------------
> deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
> contrib non-free
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> and when I give
>
> #apt-get install subversion
>
> debian says "I have the latest version installed already?
did you run `apt-get update` first?
> The problem is I don't know how to compile from source :))
well, it's a useful thing to know!
download some .tgz source program, and read the INSTALL file in it.
The basic general thing to do is:
tar xzf foo.tgz
cd foo
./configure
make
make install
That will usually put the program in /usr/local.
If the program you want to build is in Debian already, you can use
apt-get source foo, and debuild from the devscripts package, or use
apt-build. I don't know about installing something from a different
release though.
I just read an article about apt-build, it looks really good,
check it out :)
http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build.html
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