On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:04:45AM -0800, Joel Lopez wrote:
> I'm a linux/debian newbie. I'd like to upgrade kde and in the future any
> other packages to versions higher than the one's that apt-get finds.
>
> Is there any easy way to do this? Any good how-to's anywhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
Hi Joel,
you mentioned 'stable' in your subject. The intent of a Debian release
ie. stable is to produce a version that does not change and does not
have release critical bugs and will not change. This is what is required
for it to run on 24-7 servers and for companies to support it. For new
versions to enter stable, it would upset that. But testing , where the
next stable comes from, changes up till it is released as the new
stable and may have a newer version of some software. And of course,
there is sid aka unstable where all new software version enter the
Debian food chain and thus contains the latest versions packaged for
Debian. To get newer version for stable, some folks use testing, some
use compiled version of the latest source and some use unoffical
repositories like 'apt-get.org'. All these, while useful, introduce some
instability into 'stable'. Before using these, weight the risks versus
the benefits. But at this moment, 'testing' aka sarge is VERY close to
being released and as such many folks use this becuase of the age of
'stable' aka woody. The idea is that 'the latest' is not desireable for
someone in a production environment but is more reasonable for laptop
that is used for making documents and graphs.
Cheers,
Kev
--
counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted!
_, _, ,'`.
`$$' `$$' `. ,'
$$ $$ `'
$$ $$ _, _
,d$$$g$$ ,d$$$b. $$,d$$$b.`$$' g$$$$$b.`$$,d$$b.
,$P' `$$ ,$P' `Y$. $$$' `$$ $$ "' `$$ $$$' `$$
$$' $$ $$' `$$ $$' $$ $$ ,ggggg$$ $$' $$
$$ $$ $$ggggg$$ $$ $$ $$ ,$P" $$ $$ $$
$$ ,$$ $$. $$ ,$P $$ $$' ,$$ $$ $$
`$g. ,$$$ `$$._ _., $$ _,g$P' $$ `$b. ,$$$ $$ $$
`Y$$P'$$. `Y$$$$P',$$$$P"' ,$$. `Y$$P'$$.$$. ,$$.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature