Hi Kerstin, On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 05:10:06PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > >Kerstin, you can either download the staden packages from unstable from > >here: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/staden > > > >and install manually on your Jessie system > > I had a look at the requirements in the README.build file. Manual install is > not straightforward. Itcl, itk and iwidgets are not available for jessie. > Also configure complains about a missing io_lib.
We are talking about different things when talking about "manual install". You can download the packages manually via wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/staden/staden_2.0.0+b10-3_amd64.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/staden/staden-common_2.0.0+b10-3_all.deb any *may* *be* you might also need http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/staden-io-lib/libstaden-read11_1.14.7-1_amd64.deb (if the libstaden-read11 from stable is not sufficient) and than do sudo dpkg -i *.deb with the downloaded debs. There is no point in following READM.build and compile staden from the sources. > >or you add unstable to your > >/etc/apt/sources.list. ATTENTION: You need to adapt > >/etc/apt/preferences to make sure you will not bump your whole system > >to unstable! > > The most "dangerous" and possibly destabilizing actions I did, were > installations of backports. I usually don't dare to touch sid. Probably the > install will also result in the missing itcl etc. being installed? Will it > work, if I restrict it as such? You need to drop a file /etc/apt/preferences with the content Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 501 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 (or if your /etc/apt/sources.list contains "jessie" instead of stable use this one with the priority 501) > Package: staden > Pin: release n=sid > Pin-Priority: 900 Yes, this would pick staden from sid (== unstable) but the general preferences file as I wrote above makes sure that no *other* packages will be taken from sid. You can even without the specific staden pinning do: apt-get -t unstable install staden staden-common Please always check apt-cache policy staden before. Moreover if some random apt-get update might install *lots* of packages - you have messed up the preferences. Hope this helps Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
