Re: lazarus & fpc - absent
On Sunday 10 October 2010 12:58:02 Javier Barroso wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Johan <johansche@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to
> > your /etc/apt/sources.list like this:
> >
> > deb http:///ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main
> > Replacing /ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ with the mirror in question.
>
> Better replace sid with sequeeze in that instructions, and run
> aptitude update; aptitude -s install lazarus , to see which packages
> will be picked from squeeze
>
> You will need a mixed debian environment (see pinning [1]) or to do a
> backport (both are advanced topics)
>
> Seems like lazarus was removed from lenny for legal reasons [2]
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences?action=show&redirect=Pinning
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506977
Johan seems to want a lot of more up-to-date stuff. Would he not be better to
use Squeeze in the first place? After all, it is over two tears since Lenny
was frozen. Then he wouldn'y have to dive into more complex stuff
immediately. He does not appear to be sufficiently at home yet to grasp the
difference between Lenny and Sid - let alone to try and run those two
together!
Lisi
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