Re: old software

Just to jump in here- when I used Wheezy, the version of Wine was too old and that led to a long path toward installing a newer version of Wine. At the end of this path, I had totally blown away the version of libc that I needed and learned a very important lesson : Don't mix unstable with stable.

Read https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian - this should help.

I suggest if you need newer software that you use an unstable version of Debian. I believe some others in this thread have mentioned; I see this as the Debian way.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:54 AM, D.E. Bil <kasmra@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:43:50AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-03-11, D.E. Bil <kasmra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 09:09:27 D.E. Bil wrote:
> >> > Also, installing from unofficial repositories is a bad idea.
> >> > Especially on a stable system.
> >>
> >> wheezy-backports an unofficial repository? Isn't that being a littl epurist?
> >
> > I was referring to videolan one. Thanks for pointing.
> >
>
> The OP wasn't clear about which instructions he was following. It turns
> out that the instructions on the VideoLAN site point the user in the
> direction of wheezy-backports anyway.
>

Ah, you're right (along with Lisi). My bad.

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