Re: old software
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 15:29:30 Brandon Foster wrote:
> 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.
Or backports. That works well. Not perhaps as stable as Stable, but
certainly as stable as Unstable. ;-)
Lisi
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > debil
> >
> > :wq
> >
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