Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:17:00 -0400
Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com> wrote:
> As you can see, the "doc" package installed OK, but the "server"
> package needs a later version of some basic C libraries.
>
> I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenny right now. And I
> really don't want to get into running an Etch Machine with Lenny
> libraries.
>
I agree.
> So I suspect that what I really need to do is download the "dibbler"
> source package and recompile it on Etch.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to do that? RTFM is easy if you know what
> parts to read, so if you can point me to the right parts of the FM,
> that will be great!
>
You should install autotools-dev for first.
Get the source then:
./configure
make
If it compiles it's a good thing and we could work on debianizating it,
but I still won't do "make install" to install it into your system.
Though I don't think developers would put such blocker dependencies that don't exist.
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