Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape
On Monday 30 August 2010 09:13:28 James Stuckey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers
<kelly.clowers@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton
> > <john@wexfordpress.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a
> > > net install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape
> > > 0.46. Two questions:
> > > 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first?
> >
> > Unstable has 0.47, experimental has 0.48
> >
> > Backports seems not to have it.
> >
> > > 2. How do I upgrade to that release?
> >
> > Change /etc/apt/sources.list so that it says unstable instead of
> > stable or lenny,
> > then do "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade". Then add lines
> > that point to
> > experimental (add to, not replace; experimental only has a few
> > packages of it's
> > own, the rest must come from unstable). Then you need to
> > explicitly select inkscape 0.48 (I recommend aptitude in
> > interactive mode), as a regular aptitude upgrade will not pull in
> > experimental packages.
> >
> > Or you might want to upgrade to testing first, then to
> > unstable/experimental. In
> > any case, unstable is pretty calm right now, due to the freeze,
> > so there shouldn't be too many issues.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kelly Clowers
> >
> >
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>
> You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up
> with an unstable system. Upgrade to testing by the instructions I
> gave you, and then backport this package to testing from
> experimental.
>
> a) put experimental deb-src only in your sources.list
> b) update aptitude
> c) apt-get build-dep inkscape (or whatever the package name is)
> d) apt-get -b source inkscape
> e) install resulting inkscape deb
>
> Also, do this: echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >>
> /etc/apt.conf
>
> ciao
> James S.
Assume that this particular partition exists only to run inkscape
0.48. Does this change your advice?
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