Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape

[James Stuckey <jhstuckey@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:13, James Stuckey <jhstuckey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with an
> unstable system.

What? Why would it be unstable?

> 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

Hmmm, I never really got how to use source packages. Is that really
all there is to it?

Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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First, because experimental is just that: experimental. Secondly, apt may very well pull in a lot of other stuff with it. 

That's one way to use source packages, yes.