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Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...



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On 08/12/07 02:45, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
> 
> I downloaded the latest gnash deb file for amd64 etch.  I tried to
> install it but I need some more recent libraries etc before it will
> work....
> 
> localhost:/home/mikef/gnash# dpkg -i
> gnash_0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1+b1_amd64.deb Selecting previously
> deselected package gnash.
> (Reading database ... 109853 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking gnash (from gnash_0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1+b1_amd64.deb) ...
[snip]
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gnash
> localhost:/home/mikef/gnash#
> 
> If I dig around in the debian packages and find later versions of libc6
> and libgcc etc so that gnash will install will it be reasonably safe
> adding stuff from unstable to the etch release I am using?

NO!  Installing Unstable (and often Testing) packages onto Stable is
a grand invitation to instability.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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