Ron Johnson wrote:
1. When the debian page says 'depends on such and such other packages', aren't they going to mess my sarge install? I mean, if this is a sid page referring to sid packages, I am not supposed to try to install these on my sarge, am I (because I already have the sarge versions of everything)?-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Buys wrote:Ron Johnson wrote: Bruno Buys wrote:Ron Johnson wrote: Bruno Buys wrote:[snip]ron, My sources.list won't list exiv2. What repo does your come from? apt-get.org also doesn't list anything. thanks!Maybe you're running Sarge or Etch? $ apt-cache policy exiv2 exiv2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.10-1 Version table: 0.10-1 0 500 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu unstable/main PackagesYes, running sarge. But that's ok, I compiled it from the dev's website. The guy provides a .deb but it must be for etch or sid also, in sarge it results in broken deps. exiv2 seems to be quite good, ron, thanks!You could also: 1. Download the source packages and build them on Sarge. This link points to all the necessary source packages: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/exiv2 2. Upgrade to Etch or Sid. If you have a desktop, that's not too scary.
2. Yes, I thought of doing this a zillion times. Question is, I have seen troubled ppl looking for help over a broken/messed system for one reason or another. Fairly put, it doesn't happen all the time (and mainly with brazilian users at debian-users-portuguese, that apparently can't read english docs easily -- debian portuguese documentation is good, but reading english would help a lot). I find myself always postponing this move. My current sarge install is 2 years old, and I have installed a lot of things without decently documenting what I did. If something breaks its gonna be a pain to track it. I know there's dpkg --set-selections/dpkg --get-selections if needed. I'd rather have a testing machine...
How much is etch ahead of sarge? which one you run?