On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David H. Silber wrote: > > Weren't you warned that following unstable could cause problems? ;) > > Yup. That's why my workstation & server run slink. But I need the > latest versions of PHP3 & MySQL for a project, which means potato, so > I am using a 486 to support this project. I suppose I could get the > source & compile everything myself, but that seems so... so... un-Debian!
Actually, in the latest version of apt they made this much easier! You can now use a deb-src line in your sources.list, and then use "apt-get --compile source packagename" then apt should download the sources and try to compile them for you (you'll still need the proper -dev packages, remember) i can't give you more pointers than that though, as i haven't yet tried this feature...
