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Re: Distro upgrade



On 12/19/2013 9:54 AM, Verde Denim wrote:
> Just checking in to get a consensus -
> 
> I'm running a (very stable) Debian workstation with Wheezy that has a
> lot of development/testing applications installed. I tried an install of
> hopper disassembler that threw errors concerning GLIBC and libffi so I
> contacted the package maintainers who told me that they setup an
> environment with Debian Jessie and the package works as expected. I'd
> like to work with this package, but am a curious to know if upgrading
> the release from Wheezy to Jessie might cause other issues with the
> large number of packages already running well. Any input, as always, is
> greatly appreciated.

Why take any chances?  Install/run Jessie and the application in a
virtual machine.

-- 
Stan


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