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woody packages on a sarge machine?
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| Good day,
Could anyone advise if it's ok to download individual packages from
the stable (woody) list from the debian site and "dpkg -i" them on a
testing (sarge) box?
Specifically it's the theme-converters package I'm after, which
isn't in the sarge distro for some reason, and I dare say it'll only
be a matter of time before there's other stuff I'll want from woody.
Many thanks in advance.
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| Andreas Janssen 2005-04-18, 5:46 pm |
| Hello
Harry (<happy@work.net> ) wrote:
> Could anyone advise if it's ok to download individual packages from
> the stable (woody) list from the debian site and "dpkg -i" them on a
> testing (sarge) box?
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> Specifically it's the theme-converters package I'm after, which
> isn't in the sarge distro for some reason, and I dare say it'll only
> be a matter of time before there's other stuff I'll want from woody.
As far as I know most programs built for Woody (especially C/C++
programs) are incompatible to libraries on Sarge, so you would need to
rebuild them. Simply installing them won't work for many programs for
this reason, because of incompatible libraries or other dependency
problems.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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| On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:05:11 +0200, Andreas Janssen
<andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Hello
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>Harry (<happy@work.net> ) wrote:
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>As far as I know most programs built for Woody (especially C/C++
>programs) are incompatible to libraries on Sarge, so you would need to
>rebuild them. Simply installing them won't work for many programs for
>this reason, because of incompatible libraries or other dependency
>problems.
> Andreas Janssen
Thank you Andreas. Time now for me to find out how to aquire and
compile source code for debian.
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| On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:25:30 +0100, Harry <happy@work.net> wrote:
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>Thank you Andreas. Time now for me to find out how to aquire and
>compile source code for debian.
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This may be of help.
http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build.html
Steve
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