Re: Lenny: howto install other packages then the default ones ???

[Berni Elbourn <berni@elbournb.fsnet.co.uk>]

Kristoff Bonne wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have a pretty anoying problem.
>
> We have just installed a new server to replace an older one. For this 
> one, we have chosen Deian Lenny instead of Debian Etch
>
> Now we have a problem with "mrtg", more specially the "rrd-part" of it.
>
>
> The bug is know. It exists in rrdtool 1.3.1-4 and seams to be solved in 
> 1.3.7-1.
>
>
> So how do I upgrade Lenny to this new version of rrd-tool?
> Remove it and create it from source?
>
>
>
> The packages impacted are
> librrd4
> linrrds-perl
> rrdtool
>
> (all running 1.3.1-4).
>
>
>
> Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

Try the shiny new official Debian backports service:

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=rrdtool
&
http://wiki.debian.org/Backports

Berni