I run Slink at work and at home, but decided to install potato's gcc and g++ on my home box to recompile the potato packages that I maintain (keeping work box on slink for stability).
Since my bandwidth is at work, I doing the following to download what I need (and then I'll sneaker-net everything home on a Zip): # apt-get -d -u install gcc g++ Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libfltk-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev cpp libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libc6-dev libfltk1 libc6 mesag3 The following packages will be REMOVED: libstdc++2.9-dev timezone The following NEW packages will be installed: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libfltk1 mesag3 The following packages will be upgraded libfltk-dev g++ cpp gcc libc6-dev libc6 6 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 265 not upgraded. Need to get 7524kb of archives. After unpacking 7823kb will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Anything wrong with this? Or must I upgrade _everything_ to potato. This will upgrade libc6. Will the rest of the system (slink) still function correctly? Thanks! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/