Verde Denim wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Why take any chances? Install/run Jessie and the application in a > > virtual machine. > > Thanks for the reply. I thought of that, but the package I'm after is an > integral part of my test platform for assessing mobile code. I really do > need to have it in the toolbox. The question is how accessible does the tool need to be to be considered in your toolbox? > Maybe a more pertinent question is - how stable is Jessie at this > point... Jessie is at least a year from release. There are still major changes planned for it. I expect Jessie to go through some cyclic stability, instability, stability, instability before it releases at least a year from now. > If the basics of a workstation platform are workable, I might take a > chance on upgrading. I think it is pretty good at this moment. But if your question is what will it be like next week then that is a much harder question to answer. Predicting the future is easy. Predicting the future correctly is quite a bit harder. :-) > I also thought of the 'safer' path in building a vm, adding each app > to see how it goes and determine what needs to be 'tweaked' as I go, > and finally, building a physical system from the virtual one > (assuming VirtualBox allows this to occur on a solid state > drive). The dist-upgrade would be the shorter path, but I don't want > to clobber an entire environment in an effort to save myself some > work. The VM is a good suggestion. But heavy. It would be a complete different system. That would put everything at arms length. I like using chroots for things like you are suggesting. It is a different set of work but I suggest setting up a Jessie chroot on your system. It is lighter than a full VM. Then run your dissassembler from the chroot. https://wiki.debian.org/chroot You can even run X GUI programs from the chroot with a little bit of initial setup. A lot of people use 'schroot' to make this easier. Look into schroot for a hint on how to do this. Bob
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